18.226 | Fall 2022 | Graduate

Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics

Existence of Graphs with High Girth and High Chromatic Number

Application of the probabilistic method in combinatorics to graph theory. Proof of a classic and ingenious result of Erdős that there exists a graph with arbitrarily high girth and chromatic number.

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