A strong form of König’s lemma

A student proposed to me the following strong form of König’s lemma:

Conjecture. Suppose that G=(V,E) is a countable a graph, and there is a partition of V into countably many pieces V=n<ωVn, such that:

  • for all n<ω, Vn is finite (but nonempty);
  • for all two distinct n,m<ω, for each xVn, there is yVm with {x,y}E.

Then there exists an infinite KV such that [K]2E.

In this post, I will quickly address this “conjecture”. Thus, if you prefer to think about it by yourself, read no more.

 

 

 

 

 

Refutation. Consider the graph G=(N,E) where {n,m}E iff n+m=1(mod2). It is easy to see that for every 3-sized set {n,m,l}, we have {n,m,l}2E. On the other hand, letting Vn:={2n,2n+1} for all n<ω yields a partition satisfying the above-mentioned properties.

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2 Responses to A strong form of König’s lemma

  1. Ari B. says:

    So the underlying graph is just a complete bipartite graph Kω,ω ….

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