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The complexity of a class of infinite graphs

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IfG k is the family of countable graphs with nok vertex (or edge) disjoint circuits (1<k<ω) then there is a countableG k G k such that every member ofG k is an (induced) subgraph of some member ofG k , but no finiteG k suffices.

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Komjáth, P., Pach, J. The complexity of a class of infinite graphs. Combinatorica 14, 121–125 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305955

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