didericis 44d0ed12b0 coloring_nested_tire_graphs: redraw Figure 4 properly
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.

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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

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./run.sh init_paper "Your Paper Title"

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Setup

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./run.sh setup <sage_python_path> <sage_site_packages> [system_name]
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  • system_name — optional label for this machine (defaults to hostname -s); used to store per-machine env files as .env.<system_name>

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Setup also compiles the plantri submodule via make.

Running Sage

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

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./run.sh sage

Linting

./run.sh lint

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Shell Completion

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Building

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latexmk -pdf paper.tex
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