Separating Tree-chromatic number from Path-chromatic Number

Abstract

We apply Ramsey theoretic tools to show that there is a family of graphs which have tree-chromatic number at most~2 while the path-chromatic number is unbounded. This resolves a problem posed by Seymour.

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