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Problem #595: Is there an infinite graph $G$ which contains no $K_4$ and...

Is there an infinite graph $G$ which contains no $K_4$ and is not the union of countably many triangle-free graphs?

Problem Statement

Is there an infinite graph $G$ which contains no $K_4$ and is not the union of countably many triangle-free graphs?
Categories: Graph Theory Set Theory

Progress

A problem of Erdős and Hajnal. Folkman [Fo70] and Nešetřil and Rödl [NeRo75] have proved that for every $n\geq 1$ there is a graph $G$ which contains no $K_4$ and is not the union of $n$ triangle-free graphs.

See also [582] and [596].

Source: erdosproblems.com/595 | Last verified: January 15, 2026

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