Verify chain-pigeonhole exhaustively for n<=14 via R_T composition fixpoint

Add kempe_rt_composition_probe.py: Ext(T) = boundary necklaces realisable on a
subtree's outer seam by a compatible Kempe-balanced selection; monotone maps over
minimal-antichain families decide whether empty Ext is reachable. Modeling facts
established: the seam is exactly the singleton down apexes (bite apexes have parent
faces on both sides, hence parent-internal); necklace states are exact because a
child attaches with free dihedral placement (dihedral-closed sequence sets).

Result over all no-length-3-boundary tiles n<=14 (7750 tiles, 1966 distinct
relations, 149 leaf, 27 branching): empty Ext is NOT reachable — every assemblable
tree admits a compatible selection, verifying the chain-pigeonhole conjecture
exhaustively for tire trees with treads n<=14 and no separating triangles. The
fixpoint saturates in 2 rounds: restriction does not accumulate along chains.
Tightest subtree pins a size-5 seam to the single necklace 00012; every smallest
minimal Ext contains the blocky/regular state. Relations cached (~6MB) for cheap
extension to larger n. Caveat: terminal facial-triangle leaves not yet modeled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -221,12 +221,63 @@ still always holds. The load transfers to the genuine object — **per-interface
selection respecting `R_T` coupling**, i.e. composing `R_T` along chains/trees with
per-seam freedom rather than a global family.
## Finding 9 — `R_T` composition: the pigeonhole verified exhaustively for n ≤ 14
`kempe_rt_composition_probe.py` — the conjecture proper, with full per-interface
freedom. Two modeling facts were established first:
- **The seam is exactly the singleton down apexes** of one inner face. A bite apex's
edge has parent tread faces on *both* sides, so it is internal to the parent's tile
and shares no medial vertex with the child.
- **Necklace states are exact, not approximate**: a child tile attaches with free
dihedral placement, so its realisable outer-sequence set is dihedral-closed and
"necklace match ⟺ some aligned sequence match". (This is the paper's own Def. of
medial boundary state.)
Define `Ext(T)` = necklaces realisable on a subtree's outer seam by a compatible
Kempe-balanced selection: `Ext(T) = {o : ∃(o, i⃗) ∈ R_T^joint, i_j ∈ Ext(C_j)}`,
leaves = all-bite tiles (no singleton interfaces, degenerate inner boundaries). The
maps are monotone, so the **antichain of minimal reachable Ext sets per seam size**
decides whether ∅ is reachable. Relations are cached (`kempe_rt_relations_cache.json`).
Result over all no-length-3-boundary tiles with `n ≤ 14` (7750 tiles, 1966 distinct
relations, 149 leaf, **27 branching**):
- **∅ is NOT reachable.** Every tree assemblable from this universe — branching
included — admits a compatible Kempe-balanced selection. Since every real tire tree
whose treads have `n ≤ 14` and no separating triangles is such a tree, the
chain-pigeonhole conjecture is **verified exhaustively for that class**.
- **Composition saturates in 2 rounds.** The minimal antichains are already closed
under every tile map after one pass: restriction does *not* accumulate along chains
— it bottoms out immediately. This is exactly the structural behaviour the paper's
§6 programme hoped for ("restriction sets cannot remain mutually disjoint").
- **Restriction is real but bounded.** Tightest subtrees per seam size: m=4 forces
2 of 3 necklaces, **m=5 forces a single necklace `{00012}`**, m=7 forces 3 of 10,
m=8 forces 8 of 34, m=14 forces 133 of 7515. Yet no parent relation ever misses a
minimal set entirely.
- **The blocky states are always offered.** Every smallest minimal Ext set contains
the regular necklace of its size (`0^m` or `0^{m-2}12`-type). The regular family
failed (Finding 8) because a single tile sometimes cannot take blocky-in and
blocky-out *jointly* — but per-interface freedom routes around it, and the data
shows subtrees always keep the blocky option available downward.
Caveats: (i) terminal facial triangles (innermost treads ending on a face of `G`) are
not yet modelled — our leaves are only the degenerate-inner-boundary all-bite tiles;
adding 3-faces as terminal children with `Ext = {012}` is a small extension. (ii) The
universe is abstract: it is a *superset* of real trees (good for the positive verdict;
an abstract obstruction, had one appeared, would still have needed a realisability
check).
## Open threads
- **Per-interface `R_T` composition** along real chains/trees (per-seam freedom,
respecting coupling) — the paper's §6 conjecture proper, now the main line.
- **Structural lemma for the over-constraint.** Why does a monochromatic large rim
forbid the paired odd-inner necklace? A parity/structure argument on the annular
cycle for these specific failing tiles is small and concrete.
- (Set aside) whether *some* irregular uniform family still works at n=15 (full CSP)
— reframed away from; expensive (~hours) and not the conjecture.
- **Terminal-3-face leaves.** Extend the fixpoint with facial-triangle termination
(parent tiles with one 3-singleton face allowed as terminal); rerun.
- **Push `max_n`.** n=15 adds ~1 hr of one-time classification to the cache; the
2-round saturation suggests verdicts stabilise quickly, but a deeper universe is
the only way an obstruction could still appear.
- **Why saturation?** The 2-round fixpoint convergence is the empirical shadow of a
provable statement: composing tire restriction relations stabilises after one
level. A proof of that, with the minimal antichains characterised, would *be* the
pigeonhole lemma for this class.
- **Structural lemma for the n=15 uniform failures** (why a monochromatic large rim
forbids the paired odd-inner necklace) — still open, now lower priority.
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"""R_T composition along chains/trees: the chain-pigeonhole fixpoint.
The conjecture proper (paper section 6): in a nested chain/tree of tire treads,
boundary states must be selectable per interface so that every tile realises its
outer state and all its inner-face states jointly (with one Kempe-balanced
colouring). The uniform per-size family was refuted at n=15; this probe asks
the real question: composing the per-tile restriction relations with FULL
per-interface freedom, can the extendability set ever become empty?
Model notes (worked out carefully):
* The gluing seam between a parent tread and a child is EXACTLY the singleton
down apexes of one inner non-tooth face. A bite apex's edge has parent
tread faces on both sides, so it is internal to the parent's tile and
contributes no shared medial vertex.
* Boundary states are NECKLACES (colour permutation + dihedral symmetry of
the boundary walk -- the paper's "medial boundary state"). This is exact,
not an approximation: a child tile attaches below a seam with free dihedral
placement, so its realisable outer-sequence set is dihedral-closed, and
"necklace match" is equivalent to "some aligned sequence match".
* Ext(T) = set of necklaces o on T's outer seam such that the whole subtree
rooted at T admits a compatible Kempe-balanced selection:
Ext(T) = { o : exists (o, i_1..i_k) in R_T^joint with i_j in Ext(C_j) }.
Leaves are tiles with NO singleton-down interfaces (all downs in bites;
degenerate inner boundaries), whose Ext is their outer projection.
* Kempe-balance is the locally-checkable necessary condition for a colouring
to be the restriction of a proper 3-colouring of M(G), so an Ext built from
valid colourings is the right restriction relation.
Fixpoint: maintain, per seam size m, the ANTICHAIN of minimal reachable Ext
subsets of S_m (admissible necklaces). Ext maps are monotone, so minimal sets
suffice to decide whether the empty set is reachable.
* empty set reachable => an explicit obstructed tree (witness printed):
the necklace-level local relations do not suffice -- the pigeonhole route
needs more invariants (or the tree is unrealisable as a triangulation).
* empty set unreachable => the chain-pigeonhole conjecture verified
exhaustively over every tree assemblable from this tile universe.
Tiles: every no-length-3-boundary tile for n in [min_n, max_n] (internal seams
in the no-separating-triangle world have length >= 4). Relations are cached in
kempe_rt_relations_cache.json so reruns and extensions are cheap.
Run: python3 kempe_rt_composition_probe.py --min-n 8 --max-n 13
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import itertools
import json
import os
import sys
import time
from collections import defaultdict
from full_medial_tire_generator import generate, innermost_bite
from kempe_valid_colorings import classify_colorings
from kempe_transfer_relation_probe import necklace, admissible_necklaces
from kempe_universal_trend_probe import has_length3_boundary
from kempe_up_tooth_sequences import seq_str
HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
CACHE_PATH = os.path.join(HERE, "kempe_rt_relations_cache.json")
Neck = tuple[int, ...]
def inner_faces(g):
faces = defaultdict(list)
for e in g.singleton_down_edges:
faces[innermost_bite(e, g.bites)].append(e)
return [sorted(es) for es in faces.values() if len(es) >= 3]
def tile_key(g) -> str:
b = ",".join(f"{i}-{j}" for i, j in sorted(g.bites)) or "-"
return f"{g.n}:{g.tooth_word}:{b}"
def compute_joint(g, faces) -> set[tuple[Neck, tuple[Neck, ...]]]:
"""All (outer necklace, per-face inner necklaces) realised by one
Kempe-balanced colouring of the tile."""
joint = set()
for c, v in classify_colorings(g, dedup_colors=True):
if not v.valid:
continue
o = necklace(tuple(c[f"u{e}"] for e in g.up_edges))
ins = tuple(necklace(tuple(c[f"d{e}"] for e in f)) for f in faces)
joint.add((o, ins))
return joint
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Tile collection with on-disk relation cache.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _parse(s: str) -> Neck:
return tuple(int(ch) for ch in s)
def collect(min_n: int, max_n: int):
cache: dict = {}
if os.path.exists(CACHE_PATH):
with open(CACHE_PATH) as fh:
cache = json.load(fh)
dirty = False
tiles = [] # (key, p, qsizes, joint)
for n in range(min_n, max_n + 1):
t0 = time.time()
cnt = 0
for g in generate(n, min_up_teeth=3, dedup=True):
if has_length3_boundary(g):
continue
key = tile_key(g)
if key in cache:
rec = cache[key]
else:
faces = inner_faces(g)
joint = compute_joint(g, faces)
rec = {
"p": len(g.up_edges),
"q": [len(f) for f in faces],
"joint": [[seq_str(o), [seq_str(i) for i in ins]]
for o, ins in sorted(joint)],
}
cache[key] = rec
dirty = True
joint = frozenset(
(_parse(o), tuple(_parse(i) for i in ins))
for o, ins in rec["joint"]
)
tiles.append((key, rec["p"], tuple(rec["q"]), joint))
cnt += 1
print(f" n={n}: {cnt} tiles [{time.time() - t0:.0f}s]")
sys.stdout.flush()
if dirty:
with open(CACHE_PATH, "w") as fh:
json.dump(cache, fh)
print(f" (cache updated: {CACHE_PATH})")
return tiles
def dedup_by_relation(tiles):
"""Merge tiles with identical (p, qsizes, joint) -- same constraint."""
seen = {}
for key, p, qs, joint in tiles:
sig = (p, qs, joint)
if sig not in seen:
seen[sig] = key
return [(rep, p, qs, joint) for (p, qs, joint), rep in seen.items()]
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The fixpoint over minimal Ext antichains.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def fixpoint(tiles):
fam: dict[int, set[frozenset]] = defaultdict(set) # size -> minimal Ext sets
prov: dict[tuple[int, frozenset], tuple] = {}
obstruction = None # (size, provenance) when empty set first reached
def add(size, s, why) -> bool:
s = frozenset(s)
if (size, s) not in prov:
prov[(size, s)] = why
for e in fam[size]:
if e <= s:
return False # dominated by an existing (smaller) set
for e in [e for e in fam[size] if s < e]:
fam[size].discard(e) # s supersedes larger sets
fam[size].add(s)
return True
def det(sets):
return sorted(sets, key=lambda s: (len(s), sorted(s)))
rounds = 0
changed = True
while changed and obstruction is None:
changed = False
rounds += 1
for key, p, qs, joint in tiles:
if not qs: # leaf: no inner interfaces
proj = frozenset(o for o, _ in joint)
if add(p, proj, (key, [])):
changed = True
if not proj:
obstruction = (p, (key, []))
break
continue
if any(not fam[q] for q in qs):
continue # some child seam size not yet seeded
for combo in itertools.product(*[det(fam[q]) for q in qs]):
O = frozenset(
o for o, ins in joint
if all(ins[j] in combo[j] for j in range(len(qs)))
)
if add(p, O, (key, list(zip(qs, combo)))):
changed = True
if not O:
obstruction = (p, (key, list(zip(qs, combo))))
break
if obstruction:
break
return fam, prov, rounds, obstruction
def print_witness(size, s, prov, depth=0):
key, children = prov[(size, frozenset(s))]
states = "{" + ",".join(seq_str(x) for x in sorted(s)) + "}"
print(" " + " " * depth +
f"seam size {size}: Ext={states or '{}'} via tile {key}")
for q, cs in children:
print_witness(q, cs, prov, depth + 1)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Driver.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def run(args):
print(f"R_T composition fixpoint over no-length-3-boundary tiles, "
f"n = {args.min_n}..{args.max_n}\n")
tiles = collect(args.min_n, args.max_n)
uniq = dedup_by_relation(tiles)
n_leaf = sum(1 for _, _, qs, _ in uniq if not qs)
n_branch = sum(1 for _, _, qs, _ in uniq if len(qs) >= 2)
print(f"\n{len(tiles)} tiles, {len(uniq)} distinct relations "
f"({n_leaf} leaf, {n_branch} branching)")
t0 = time.time()
fam, prov, rounds, obstruction = fixpoint(uniq)
print(f"fixpoint: {rounds} rounds [{time.time() - t0:.0f}s]\n")
print("minimal Ext antichains per seam size "
"(how restrictive a subtree can be):")
for m in sorted(fam):
adm = len(admissible_necklaces(m))
sets = sorted(fam[m], key=lambda s: (len(s), sorted(s)))
sizes = [len(s) for s in sets]
smallest = "{" + ",".join(seq_str(x) for x in sorted(sets[0])) + "}" \
if sets else "-"
print(f" m={m}: |adm|={adm} {len(sets)} minimal sets, "
f"sizes {sizes} smallest={smallest}")
unseeded = [m for m in {q for _, _, qs, _ in uniq for q in qs}
if not fam.get(m)]
if unseeded:
print(f" (seam sizes never seeded by any subtree: {sorted(unseeded)})")
if obstruction:
size, why = obstruction
print("\n=> EMPTY EXT REACHED -- explicit boundary-state obstructed tree:")
prov[(size, frozenset())] = why
print_witness(size, frozenset(), prov)
print("\n (If this tree is realisable as a plane triangulation, the\n"
" necklace-level relations admit a genuine obstruction; if not,\n"
" realisability constraints are doing essential work.)")
else:
print("\n=> EMPTY EXT NOT REACHABLE: every tree assemblable from this "
"tile universe\n admits a compatible Kempe-balanced selection. "
"The chain-pigeonhole conjecture\n is verified exhaustively over "
f"all trees built from tiles with n <= {args.max_n}.")
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
parser.add_argument("--min-n", type=int, default=8)
parser.add_argument("--max-n", type=int, default=13)
run(parser.parse_args())
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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