The tournament Erdős–Hajnal conjecture

A tournament is a directed graph in which exactly one of uvuv and vuvu is an edge for every pair of distinct vertices. A tournament TT is SS-free if it has no subtournament isomorphic to SS. Let α(T)\alpha(T) be the maximum number of vertices in a transitive subtournament of TT.

Tournament Erdős–Hajnal conjecture. For every tournament SS, there exists a constant δ(S)>0\delta(S)>0 such that every SS-free tournament TT satisfies

α(T)V(T)δ(H).\alpha(T)\geq |V(T)|^{\delta(H)}.

The source states this as equivalent to the graph Erdős–Hajnal conjecture. Transitive subtournaments provide a single analogue of cliques and stable sets, but the conjecture remains open in general; the exponent in the source is written as δ(H)\delta(H) despite the quantified tournament being SS.

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Primary source

Maria Chudnovsky, “The Erdös-Hajnal Conjecture—A Survey”, arXiv:1606.08827 (2016).

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