 Mycielski construction (source code)

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= Mycielski construction
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The Mycielski construction replaces a graph $G$ with a graph $\mu(G)$ having one shadow vertex for each original vertex and one further vertex adjacent to every shadow. It satisfies
$$
\chi(\mu(G))=\chi(G)+1
$$
and preserves triangle-freeness. Iterating it from the five-cycle gives triangle-free graphs of arbitrarily large chromatic number.

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