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Is it true that, for all finite ,
Source: erdosproblems.com/1169
No claim settles this problem.
Open. The site labels the problem NOT DISPROVABLE and credits Hajnal's proof of the negative relation under the continuum hypothesis. That consistency result, with the later ones from a Suslin tree, from the stick principle, from and in a model of a fragment of Martin's axiom, shows that ZFC does not refute the relation, one side of an independence result. Whether ZFC proves it, that is, whether is consistent, is open. This page departs from the site's label because one side alone leaves the question open.