The spherical coloring conjecture for the 2-sphere

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Let S2\mathbb{S}^2 be the unit 22-sphere. Spherical coloring conjecture. There exists a map q:S2{±1,±2,±3,±4}q:\mathbb{S}^2 \rightarrow \{\pm 1, \pm 2, \pm 3, \pm 4\} such that antipodal points of S2\mathbb{S}^2 receive opposite values, and any three points equidistant on a great circle have values summing to zero. The supplied text presents this as one of two conjectures intended to imply Tutte's 55-flow conjecture; its status is not resolved there.

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Hussein Houdrouge, Bobby Miraftab and Pat Morin, “2-dimensional unit vector flows”, arXiv:2602.21526 (2026).

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