“…Since vertices of X(G) are in bijection with connected components of 3-coloured subgraphs of G, there exist distinct colours i, j, k such that κ i,j,k ≥ Kn 4 log n . By (8) with I = {i, j, k} and up to relabelling i, j, k, we have κ i,j − κ i,j,k ≤ n 6 − 1 3 κ i,j,k ≤ n 6 − Kn 12 log n .…”