Tested 10 closed PDS chains under SR (degenerate-inner T_1, varied
middle tires, outer-triangle T_n with m_n=3). In all cases:
- Forward state grows in the middle (widest tires), shrinks toward outer.
- Final state at outer-triangle L_n has size EXACTLY 6.
- Those 6 elements are EXACTLY the permutations of {1,2,3}.
- Outer-face dual-vertex constraint (degree-3, distinct colors) is
satisfied in every chain.
This is strong empirical evidence that under SR+PDS, the entire
chain-pigeonhole story closes for 4CT:
step 1 (saturation): proven
step 2 (pairwise): automatic from step 1
step 3 (chain consistency, open): always works
step 4 (closed with outer-triangle constraint): always works,
with the 6 outer-permutations as a clean attractor.
If this holds for all internally 6-connected G under SR (likely from
Birkhoff degree ≥ 5), it's a structural proof path for 4CT for
PDS-decomposable triangulations.
Remaining: prove SR holds for all internally 6-connected G; verify
exhaustively across more chains; find symbolic proof of the
"final state = exactly 6 permutations" attractor behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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