{"date_published":"2021-06-09T00:00:00Z","publication":"Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B","publication_status":"published","day":"09","doi":"10.1016/j.jctb.2021.05.004","author":[{"first_name":"János","full_name":"Pach, János","last_name":"Pach","id":"E62E3130-B088-11EA-B919-BF823C25FEA4"},{"full_name":"Tomon, István","last_name":"Tomon","first_name":"István"}],"volume":151,"_id":"9602","external_id":{"isi":["000702280800002"]},"project":[{"_id":"268116B8-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"The Wittgenstein Prize","grant_number":"Z00342","call_identifier":"FWF"}],"intvolume":" 151","quality_controlled":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa":1,"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"file_date_updated":"2021-06-28T13:33:23Z","page":"21-37","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","file":[{"date_updated":"2021-06-28T13:33:23Z","file_size":418168,"creator":"asandaue","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2021-06-28T13:33:23Z","success":1,"checksum":"15fbc9064cd9d1c777ac0043b78c8f12","file_id":"9612","relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2021_JournalOfCombinatorialTheory_Pach.pdf"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","date_created":"2021-06-27T22:01:47Z","citation":{"apa":"Pach, J., & Tomon, I. (2021). Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2021.05.004","chicago":"Pach, János, and István Tomon. “Erdős-Hajnal-Type Results for Monotone Paths.” Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B. Elsevier, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2021.05.004.","mla":"Pach, János, and István Tomon. “Erdős-Hajnal-Type Results for Monotone Paths.” Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B, vol. 151, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 21–37, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2021.05.004.","ista":"Pach J, Tomon I. 2021. Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B. 151, 21–37.","short":"J. Pach, I. Tomon, Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B 151 (2021) 21–37.","ieee":"J. Pach and I. Tomon, “Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths,” Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B, vol. 151. Elsevier, pp. 21–37, 2021.","ama":"Pach J, Tomon I. Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 2021;151:21-37. doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2021.05.004"},"type":"journal_article","title":"Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths","date_updated":"2023-08-10T13:38:00Z","month":"06","acknowledgement":"We would like to thank the anonymous referees for their useful comments and suggestions. János Pach is partially supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant Z 342-N31 and by ERC Advanced grant “GeoScape.” István Tomon is partially supported by Swiss National Science Foundation grant no. 200021_196965, and thanks the support of MIPT Moscow. Both authors are partially supported by The Russian Government in the framework of MegaGrant no. 075-15-2019-1926.","isi":1,"article_processing_charge":"No","scopus_import":"1","publisher":"Elsevier","ddc":["510"],"year":"2021","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"An ordered graph is a graph with a linear ordering on its vertex set. We prove that for every positive integer k, there exists a constant ck > 0 such that any ordered graph G on n vertices with the property that neither G nor its complement contains an induced monotone path of size k, has either a clique or an independent set of size at least n^ck . This strengthens a result of Bousquet, Lagoutte, and Thomassé, who proved the analogous result for unordered graphs.\r\nA key idea of the above paper was to show that any unordered graph on n vertices that does not contain an induced path of size k, and whose maximum degree is at most c(k)n for some small c(k) > 0, contains two disjoint linear size subsets with no edge between them. This approach fails for ordered graphs, because the analogous statement is false for k ≥ 3, by a construction of Fox. We provide some further examples showing that this statement also fails for ordered graphs avoiding other ordered trees."}],"publication_identifier":{"issn":["0095-8956"]},"oa_version":"Published Version","department":[{"_id":"HeEd"}],"status":"public","article_type":"original"}