A survey of χ ‐boundedness

@article{Scott2020ASO,
  title={A survey of 
$\chi$ ‐boundedness},
  author={Alex D. Scott and Paul D. Seymour},
  journal={Journal of Graph Theory},
  year={2020},
  volume={95},
  pages={473 - 504}
}
If a graph has bounded clique number and sufficiently large chromatic number, what can we say about its induced subgraphs? András Gyárfás made a number of challenging conjectures about this in the early 1980s, which have remained open until recently; but in the last few years there has been substantial progress. This is a survey of where we are now. 
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