Previous Figure 4 had two bugs:
(1) Dual vertices were placed in arbitrary positions, not at
annular triangle centroids.
(2) The "bridge" chord didn't actually correspond to a bridge,
since B_in was drawn as a single hexagonal cycle (which has
no bridges). For a real bridge, O needs to be a barbell.
Redrawn as a clean spoke-only example:
- B_out: hexagon (6 outer vertices u_0..u_5, red).
- B_in: triangle (3 inner vertices w_0, w_1, w_2, light red).
- V(O) = V(B_in), no chord of O, no bridge.
- Triangulation: 9 spokes between outer and inner.
- 9 annular triangles: 6 "outer-cap" + 3 "inner-cap".
- Dual vertices placed using TikZ barycentric coordinates at
each triangle's exact centroid.
- Dual graph Γ ≅ C_9 (just a cycle, no chords for spoke-only).
The chord/bridge case isn't drawn directly in the figure but is
referenced via Remark 1.14, which already discusses the bridge
case (Θ(1,b,c) = Hamilton cycle + length-1 chord) textually.
This keeps the figure correct and unambiguous; readers wanting
the chord case can refer to the remark or the dual paper.
Page count: 9 → 10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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