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Erdős Problem #594

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**Erdős Problem 594** (Erdős–Hajnal [ErHa66], [Er69b]): Does every graph \(G\) with chromatic number \(\geq \aleph_1\) contain all sufficiently large odd cycles? The answer is **Yes**, proved by Erdős, Hajnal, and Shelah [EHS74]. A graph has chromatic number \(\geq \aleph_1\) (i.e. uncountable chromatic number) if and only if it admits no proper colouring with countably many colours; this is encoded as `IsEmpty (G.Coloring ℕ)`. The conclusion states that there is some \(N\) such that for every \(k \geq N\) the graph contains a cycle of odd length \(2k + 1\).
Statement as formalized in Formal Conjectures (Google DeepMind, Apache-2.0) · their label: research solved · 1 further variant / known partial result in the Lean file. The authoritative wording is on erdosproblems.com/594.
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Topicsgraph theory, set theory
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