didericis 0d5aebbff7 face_monochromatic_pairs: record graph6 + invariants of Conj-5.5 counterexample; drop partial proof attempt
- Disproof remark now records the canonical graph6 string (via
  G.canonical_label().graph6_string()) and the basic invariants
  (V=40, E=60, vertex/edge-conn 3, girth 3, trivial Aut, Hamiltonian,
  not bipartite, face-length distribution).
- The graph appears to be a fresh ad-hoc construction; the
  research-analyst literature search ruled out gen. Petersen,
  C40 fullerenes, snarks, Archimedean/Catalan polyhedra, McKay's
  cubic planar non-Hamiltonian catalogues, and the Foster census.
- counterexample_conj_5_5.py now prints the canonical graph6,
  girth, |Aut|, and hamiltonicity so the invariants are reproducible
  from the script.
- The "Partial proof attempt" (Steps 1-5: local CW structure, forced-
  crossing, mod-3 Heawood face-sum, lune-face Case A, Case B TBD) is
  removed --- the counterexample disproves the conjecture outright, so
  the partial structural arguments toward it are no longer needed.
  Paper drops from 19 to 17 pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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math-research

Personal mathematics research repository by Eric Bauerfeld. Papers are written in AMS-LaTeX using the amsart document class.

Papers

kempe_style_search_for_smaller_contradiction

Humans Suffice: A Novel Proof of the Four Color Theorem

An in-progress proof of the Four Color Theorem via a minimal counterexample argument. The paper builds on Kempe's 1879 strategy — establishing valid cases for vertices of degree ≤ 4, then extending the argument to the degree-5 case using properties of non-adjacent degree-5 vertices, merged subgraphs, and locked colorings.

plane_depth_labelling

Plane Depth Labelling

Early-stage paper. Title and author information set; content in progress.

Creating a New Paper

Use run.sh to scaffold a new paper from the AMS-LaTeX template:

./run.sh init_paper "Your Paper Title"

This creates a new directory (name derived from the title) containing a paper.tex pre-filled with the title and author.

Setup

The Python library code in lib/ requires SageMath. Run setup once per machine:

./run.sh setup <sage_python_path> <sage_site_packages> [system_name]
  • sage_python_path — path to the SageMath Python interpreter (e.g. /opt/sage/local/bin/python3)
  • sage_site_packages — path to SageMath's site-packages directory
  • system_name — optional label for this machine (defaults to hostname -s); used to store per-machine env files as .env.<system_name>

On subsequent runs the paths default to whatever was saved in .env, so ./run.sh setup alone re-runs setup with the existing configuration.

Setup also compiles the plantri submodule via make.

Running Sage

To run a Sage script with plantri available on PATH:

./run.sh sage <script.py> [args...]

Or to open an interactive Sage session:

./run.sh sage

Linting

./run.sh lint

Runs pyright and pylint on lib/ using the SageMath Python interpreter.

Shell Completion

To enable tab-completion for run.sh in zsh, add this to your .zshrc:

eval "$(path/to/run.sh completion)"

Or source it once in the current shell session:

eval "$(./run.sh completion)"

Building

Papers are compiled with LaTeX. From within a paper directory:

latexmk -pdf paper.tex
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