Towards Erdos-Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole
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The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture says that for every graph $H$ there exists $c>0$ such that $\max(\alpha(G),\omega(G))\ge n^c$ for every $H$-free graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, and this is still open when $H=C_5$. Until now the best bound known on $\max(\alpha(G),\omega(G))$ for $C_5$-free graphs was the general bound of Erdos and Hajnal, that for all $H$, $\max(\alpha(G),\omega(G))\ge 2^{\Omega(\sqrt{\log n })}$ if $G$ is $H$-free. We improve this when $H=C_5$ to $\max(\alpha(G),\omega(G))\ge 2^{\Omega(\sqrt{\log n \log \log n})}.$
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