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Erdős Problem 1176

Let GG be a graph with chromatic number 1\aleph_1. Is it true that there is a colouring of the edges with 1\aleph_1 many colours such that, in any countable colouring of the vertices, there exists a vertex colour containing all edge colours?

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Let GG be a graph with chromatic number 1\aleph_1. Is it true that there is a colouring of the edges with 1\aleph_1 many colours such that, in any countable colouring of the vertices, there exists a vertex colour containing all edge colours?

A problem of Erdős, Galvin, and Hajnal. The consistency of this was proved by Hajnal and Komjáth.

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erdos_1176

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theorem erdos_1176 :    answer(sorry)   {V : Type*} (G : SimpleGraph V), G.chromaticCardinal = aleph 1        (EColor : Type) (_ : mk EColor = aleph 1) (c_edge : G.edgeSet  EColor),         (VColor : Type) (_ : mk VColor  aleph 0) (c_vert : V  VColor),           (vc : VColor),             (ec : EColor),  (u v : V) (h : G.Adj u v),              c_vert u = vc  c_vert v = vc  c_edge s(u, v), h = ec := by  sorry
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