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Erdős Problem 593: Two Colorable Implies Obligatory

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

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

This is the converse direction of the erdos_593 characterization: if 2-colorability matches the graph-case characterization (bipartite ⇔ obligatory), then every 2-colorable finite 3-uniform hypergraph must appear in every 3-uniform hypergraph of chromatic number >0> \aleph_0.

Together with erdos_593.variants.obligatory_implies_two_colorable, this implies erdos_593.

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erdos_593.variants.two_colorable_implies_obligatory

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