Introduce flip neighborhood and contradiction target Thm 4.5

Defines the flip neighborhood N(G) and recasts the colored edge flip
class as a transitive closure rather than a single-step set, then
states Theorem 4.5: no colored flip class of a flip-neighbor of a
minimum-order 5-chromatic G contains G itself. The proof is one
inductive line from the definition; the theorem is intended as the
contradiction target for a future argument that some other condition
would force G into such a class.
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of flip-symmetric maximal planar graphs.
\end{definition}
\begin{definition}[Flip neighborhood]\label{def:flip-neighborhood}
Let $G$ be a maximal planar graph. The \emph{flip neighborhood} of
$G$ is the set
\[
\mathcal{N}(G) \;=\; \bigl\{\, G^{\mathrm{flip}(uv)} : uv \in E(G)
\text{ and the flip at } uv \text{ is admissible} \,\bigr\}
\]
of maximal planar graphs obtainable from $G$ by a single admissible
edge flip.
\end{definition}
\begin{definition}[Colored edge flip class]\label{def:colored-flip-class}
Let $G$ be a maximal planar graph and let $\varphi$ be a proper
$4$-coloring of $G$. The \emph{colored edge flip class} of
$(G, \varphi)$ is the set
\[
\mathcal{C}(G, \varphi) \;=\; \bigl\{\, G^{\mathrm{flip}(uv)} :
uv \in E(G),\ \text{the flip at } uv \text{ is admissible, and}\
\varphi(w) \neq \varphi(x) \,\bigr\},
\]
where $w, x$ are the third vertices of the two triangular faces of
$G$ containing $uv$. Equivalently, $\mathcal{C}(G, \varphi)$ is the
set of graphs obtained from $G$ by an admissible edge flip under
which $\varphi$ remains a proper $4$-coloring.
$(G, \varphi)$ is the set $\mathcal{C}(G, \varphi)$ of maximal planar
graphs reachable from $G$ by some (possibly empty) sequence of
admissible edge flips, each of which leaves $\varphi$ a proper
$4$-coloring of the resulting graph. Explicitly,
$H \in \mathcal{C}(G, \varphi)$ iff there exist graphs
$G = G_0, G_1, \ldots, G_k = H$ such that for each $0 \leq i < k$,
$G_{i+1} = G_i^{\mathrm{flip}(u_i v_i)}$ for some
$u_i v_i \in E(G_i)$ whose flip is admissible in $G_i$ and whose
opposite vertices $w_i, x_i$ satisfy
$\varphi(w_i) \neq \varphi(x_i)$.
\end{definition}
\section{A minimal four-colorable counterexample}
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\begin{theorem}\label{thm:min-five-chromatic-not-flip-symmetric}
Let $G$ be a minimum-order maximal planar graph with $\chi(G) \geq 5$.
Then for every edge $e \in E(G)$, the graph induced by an edge flip
of $e$ is $4$-colorable.
Then every $H \in \mathcal{N}(G)$ is $4$-colorable.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
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\begin{theorem}\label{thm:no-colored-class-contains-G}
Let $G$ be a minimum-order maximal planar graph with $\chi(G) \geq 5$.
Then for every $H \in \mathcal{N}(G)$ and every proper $4$-coloring
$\varphi$ of $H$,
\[
G \;\notin\; \mathcal{C}(H, \varphi).
\]
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Suppose, for contradiction, that $G \in \mathcal{C}(H, \varphi)$ for
some $H \in \mathcal{N}(G)$ and some proper $4$-coloring $\varphi$ of
$H$. By Definition~\ref{def:colored-flip-class}, there exists a
sequence of maximal planar graphs $H = H_0, H_1, \ldots, H_k = G$ in
which each $H_{i+1}$ is obtained from $H_i$ by an admissible edge
flip that leaves $\varphi$ a proper $4$-coloring of $H_{i+1}$. By
induction on $i$, $\varphi$ is a proper $4$-coloring of every $H_i$;
in particular, $\varphi$ is a proper $4$-coloring of $H_k = G$. But
$\chi(G) \geq 5$ admits no such coloring, a contradiction.
\end{proof}
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