Findings at n=9 (50 triangulations, orbits fully exhaustible):
- 36 bridge-derived, 14 NOT bridge-derived. So bridge-derived is a PROPER
subclass of derived (49 derived at n=9). All 14 non-bridge graphs are
intertwining trees -- as are all 50, necessarily: intertwining tree
<=> dual Hamiltonian, and the smallest non-Hamiltonian 3-connected cubic
planar graph has 38 vertices, i.e. dual on 2n-4=38 => n=21. Hence every
triangulation with n<=20 is an intertwining tree, and the disjunction
"bridge-derived OR intertwining" is trivially true below n=21. The 4
Holton-McKay duals are the first non-intertwining triangulations.
- Static parity-subgraph invariants (Betti numbers, component counts,
cross-edge count, existence of an all-forest partition) do NOT separate
bridge-derived from non-bridge-derived -- both classes realize beta=0
partitions and identical ranges. Bridge-derivability is dynamical, not a
simple static invariant; no easy obstruction.
- Side lemma: every valid parity partition of an n-vertex triangulation has
exactly 2n-4 cross edges (intra-edges = n-2). Holds for all n=9 graphs.
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Embed a worked example of the canonical quadrilateral sequencing into the
paper. The new figure shows the deep embedding of a 9-vertex triangulation
with each quadrilateral filled by type (shallow diamond, deep diamond, S
quad) and annotated with its sequence index and move code. The generator
script renders the figure from a fixed Sage RNG seed for reproducibility.
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Adds a Motivation section to paper.tex explaining that the
quadrilateral sequencing is intended to support an inductive 4-coloring
of the underlying maximal planar graph, with ring completion as the
suspected obstacle.
Adds commentary.tex recording (a) why a pure pigeonhole argument is
unlikely to close the conjecture, (b) the observation that under any
strictly local online rule every G'-edge constraint is enforced when
its second endpoint is colored (so ring completions cannot fail at the
moment they fire), and (c) the empirical finding that pure greedy
fails at non-ring-completion moves on every 3-connected triangulation
of order 5-7.
Adds quad_sequence_coloring_check.py, an enumeration check over small
triangulations via Sage's planar_graphs that runs greedy online
4-coloring under the canonical sequence and classifies failures.
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Extend the deep embedding to include the outer face, decompose into
quadrilaterals via level-edge pairing on the sphere, and define a
deterministic sequence built from four moves (anchor drop, level add,
join, ring completion) with a recursive lex-smallest tiebreak on the
initial quadrilateral. Attempt the termination theorem and the per-move
case analyses.
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