In `plane_depth_sequencing/paper.tex`:
- Lemma 2.6 now allows any nonempty source S ⊆ V(G) whose vertices all
lie on the boundary of the outer face of the chosen embedding,
rather than only the outer-cycle case S = V(C).
- The proof is the same argument with S in place of C: at d=0 each
S-vertex remains on the outer face after restriction; for d ≥ 1
the BFS ball V_{<d}^S is connected and reaches the outer face
via S.
- The original outer-cycle statement is preserved as a remark inside
the lemma.
- Adds \label{lem:outerplanarity}.
In `coloring_nested_tire_graphs/paper.tex`:
- The proof of Lemma 1.7 drops the "extends verbatim" caveat and
simply cites the generalised Lemma 2.6, noting that since the level
source S is a single vertex (per the local Level-source definition)
we may freely choose an embedding placing S on the outer face;
outerplanarity is a graph property so the conclusion transfers.
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.
Creating a New Paper
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Linting
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