Complete n=28 census: 4 counterexamples among 1,204,737 min-deg-5 triangulations

Exhaustive enumeration at order 28 finished with exactly four maximal
planar graphs of minimum degree 5 lacking a plane diamond coloring,
out of 1,204,737 total. Adds the fourth counterexample's canonical
graph6 string and updates the figure caption.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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\]
totalling $456{,}967$ graphs, none of which is a counterexample.
At order $28$, however, counterexamples do exist. The graph in Figure~\ref{fig:mindeg5counterexample} is one such, with canonical graph6 string
At order $28$, however, counterexamples do exist. Of the $1{,}204{,}737$ maximal planar graphs of minimum degree at least $5$ and order $28$, exactly four lack a plane diamond coloring. The graph in Figure~\ref{fig:mindeg5counterexample} is one such, with canonical graph6 string
\[
\verb+[??DAaGP@OA_AI@DCPOaI_gh@PO?????C??B???|C?CIG?GIA?iD@?TPC?VQG_Bi+.
\]
It has $|V| = 28$, $|E| = 78 = 3 \cdot 28 - 6$, minimum degree $5$, and chromatic number $4$. Two further counterexamples at order $28$ have canonical graph6 strings
It has $|V| = 28$, $|E| = 78 = 3 \cdot 28 - 6$, minimum degree $5$, and chromatic number $4$. The remaining three counterexamples at order $28$ have canonical graph6 strings
\[
\verb+[?`???I@PCAG????@COGaGA_OD?DD?Aa_AII?PPV???Y??@ii?ATT?@T?T@agAgX+
\verb+[?`???I@PCAG????@COGaGA_OD?DD?Aa_AII?PPV???Y??@ii?ATT?@T?T@agAgX+,
\]
and
\[
\verb+[??DAaGP@OA_AI@DCPOaI_gh@PO?????C??BIA??gG?PC?IPC?Ig_?tIG?TO??F~+ .
\verb+[??DAaGP@OA_AI@DCPOaI_gh@PO?????C??BIA??gG?PC?IPC?Ig_?tIG?TO??F~+,
\]
\[
\verb+[C_OQ?_?O@?a?aOOCC??A??GCCOCCO?gg?II?SSO@PPI_I_I_I_}??@yi_?LTS?B+ .
\]
Direct computation (using \texttt{Sage}'s \texttt{chromatic\_number}) verifies $\chi(H_u) > 4$ for every $u$ in each of these graphs.
\end{proof}
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\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{min_degree_5_counterexample.png}
\caption{One of three known smallest counterexamples to Conjecture~\ref{conj:mindeg5}: a maximal planar graph on $28$ vertices with minimum degree $5$ admitting no plane diamond coloring.}
\caption{One of four smallest counterexamples to Conjecture~\ref{conj:mindeg5}: a maximal planar graph on $28$ vertices with minimum degree $5$ admitting no plane diamond coloring.}
\label{fig:mindeg5counterexample}
\end{figure}