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Publications and source records attributed to Gena Hahn.
We show that every countable cograph has either one or infinitely many siblings. This answers, very partially, a conjecture of Thomassé. The main tools are the notion of well quasi ordering and the correspondence between cographs and some labelled ordered trees.
Bousquet, Lochet and Thomassé recently gave an elegant proof that for any integer $n$, there is a least integer $f(n)$ such that any tournament whose arcs are coloured with $n$ colours contains a subset of vertices $S$ of size $f(n)$ with the property that any vertex not in $S$ admits a monochromatic path to some vertex of $S$. In this note we provide a lower bound on the value $f(n)$.
A relational characterization of cop-win graphs was provided by Nowakowski and Winkler in their seminal paper on the game of Cops and Robbers. As a by-product of that characterization, each cop-win graph is assigned a unique ordinal, which we refer to as a CR-ordinal. For finite graphs, CR-ordinals correspond to the length of the game assuming optimal play, with the cop beginning the game in a least favourable initial position. For infinite graphs, however, the possible values of CR-ordinals have not been considered in the literature until the present work. We classify the CR-ordinals of cop-win trees as either a finite ordinal, or those of the form $α+ ω$, where $α$ is a limit ordinal. For general infinite cop-win graphs, we provide an example whose CR-ordinal is not of this form. We finish with some problems on characterizing the CR-ordinals in the general case of cop-win graphs.