The generation conjecture for bichromatic-forbidding 4-candidates
The generation conjecture for bichromatic-forbidding 4-candidates
A 4-candidate is the graph class defined in the source context, with four designated external vertices, and a 4-candidate is bichromatic-forbidding when it forbids a proper 4-coloring in which the relevant opposite designated vertices receive the same colors. The diamond is the initial 4-candidate, and the source defines three operations in Lemmas 10ext, extproj, and extprojprime.
4-candidate generation conjecture. Every bichromatic-forbidding 4-candidate can be obtained from the diamond by a sequence of the operations described in Lemmas 10ext, extproj, and extprojprime.
The conjecture is supported by an enumeration of 4-candidates with at most 28 vertices, but the supplied source gives no resolution beyond that computational evidence.
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Primary source
Zdeněk Dvořák, Bernard Lidický and Bojan Mohar, “On a conjecture concerning 4-coloring of graphs with one crossing”, arXiv:2504.08327 (2025).
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