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An ordinal partition avoiding pentagrams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Jean A. Larson*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Po Box 118105, Gainesville, Fl 32611-8105, USA E-mail: jal@math.ufl.edu

Abstract

Suppose that α = γ + δ where γδ > 0. Then there is a graph which has no independent set of order type and has no pentagram (a pentagram is a set of five points with all pairs joined by edges). In the notation of Erdős and Rado. who generalized Ramsey's Theorem to this setting.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2000

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