didericis aecbc5ed28 Add tile-overlap probe: per-tile interface subsets always glue
Each tile realises only a subset of the parity-admissible alphabet on its rim,
and tiles genuinely omit interfaces (n=12 m=8: max 273/274, min 43). But any
two tiles always glue: interface subsets always overlap (n=9 m=3-6, n=12 m=3-8)
-- usually via a global universal seam present on every inner+outer rim, and
where none exists (n=12 m=7) the worst pair still shares 14 seams. The universal
seams are the low-complexity ones (<=2 colours, single contiguous block). No
local gluing obstruction; any obstruction must be global across a nested stack.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 22:52:38 -04:00
2026-06-08 15:34:53 -04:00

math-research

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

Papers

All papers are at papers/<name>/paper.tex. The current set:

Directory Title
colored_edge_flip_classes Colored Edge Flip Classes
colored_pentagon_contractions Colored Pentagon Reductions
coloring_nested_tire_dual_graphs Coloring Nested Tire Dual Graphs
even_level_graph_generators Even Level Graph Generators: a constructive conjecture stronger than the Four Color Theorem
face_monochromatic_pairs Face-Monochromatic Pairs and the Four Colour Theorem
iterated_reduction_in_reduced_dual An Iterated Reduction in the Reduced Dual
level_resolutions_of_maximal_planar_graphs Level Resolutions of Maximal Planar Graphs
level_switching Level Switching
medial_tire_decompositions_of_plane_triangulations Medial Tire Decompositions of Plane Triangulations
nested_tire_decompositions_of_plane_triangulations Nested Tire Decompositions of Plane Triangulations
plane_depth Plane Depth
plane_depth_sequencing Plane Depth Sequencing
plane_diamond_coloring Plane Diamond Coloring

The papers form a connected programme around plane triangulations, BFS-level structure, and the Four Colour Theorem. plane_depth introduces the level / dual-depth framework that downstream papers build on; nested_tire_decompositions_of_plane_triangulations develops the tire-tread tree-of-treads decomposition.

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 papers/<name>/ (the name is derived from the title, lower-cased, spaces → underscores) 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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