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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 132 1 c Solution by
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Let the blue edges form a graph on vertices, and suppose there is no blue copy of . For every vertex , the graph has maximum degree at most one. Indeed, if some had two neighbours inside , thenwould be the five blue edges of a copy of .
Let . If , then a maximum-degree neighbourhood, being a matching plus isolated vertices, has an independent set of size at least . This is a red . We may therefore assume . Part (b) givesIf , the greedy independent-set bound gives once . If , then part (b) giveswhen is sufficiently large. In either case there is a red , so
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