For each chord-apex+Kempe colouring, record:
- |V(K_b)|, |V(K_c)|, |V(K_b) cap V(K_c)|, |V(K_b) cup V(K_c)|
- "Flip count" on each cycle: #consecutive pairs whose third-colour
edges lie on opposite local sides (= #same-Heawood pairs by Lemma A).
Results (n in [12, 18], 13,800 colourings):
- |V(K_b) cap V(K_c)| is NEVER 2 -- always >= 6. The two Kempe cycles
through merged share many vertices.
- Distributions of flip_Kb and flip_Kc are identical multisets
(consistent with b <-> c symmetry of the construction).
- But per-colouring, flip_Kb == flip_Kc only 39.65% of the time --
the symmetry is statistical, not pointwise.
- Max observed flip count is 20, never the maximum possible |V(K)|.
Consistent with h_phi never being constant on V(K_b) U V(K_c).
The substantial overlap of K_b and K_c (>= 6 shared vertices) means
the constancy hypothesis would impose simultaneous alternation
constraints from both cycles at every shared vertex -- the topological
"trap" the proof needs to exploit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
didericis
d659bf40d5