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Erdős Problem 593: Obligatory Implies Two Colorable

Erdős Problem 593 , Necessary direction*: Every obligatory finite 3-uniform hypergraph is 2-colorable.

Mathematical statement

Erdős Problem 593 , Necessary direction*: Every obligatory finite 3-uniform hypergraph is 2-colorable.

This is the natural necessary condition for the conjectural characterization in erdos_593: if a finite 3-uniform hypergraph F is not 2-colorable, one expects to construct a hypergraph with large chromatic number that contains no copy of F.

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erdos_593.variants.obligatory_implies_two_colorable

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theorem erdos_593.variants.obligatory_implies_two_colorable : answer(sorry)      (W : Type) [Fintype W] (F : ThreeUniformHypergraph W),      IsObligatory F  F.IsTwoColorable := by  sorry
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