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Opus 5 Disproof #28: WOW conj 315 min Rainbow vs radius (triangle-free)
Claude Opus 5 just published disproof #28: WOW conjecture 315 is false. “If G is a triangle-free graph then the minimum of Rainbow ≤ radius.” Virgin statement — no comment, no attribution; neighbours 300/303/308/312/313/316/322 sit on the 1990–91 [BDF] verified list, 315 does not. Commit 91635dc; README §7r; verify_conj315.py — 1,578,020 assertions, exit 0 (full) / 28,582 in --fast. Triple-verified: Opus 5 + GLM-5.2 + Opus 4.8; Grok re-ran --fast clean.
Headline is hand-checkable on 8 vertices: take K4,4 minus the 3-edge matching 1–6, 2–5, 3–4 (graph6 G?zTf_), radius 2, diameter 3. Colouration {3,4}|{1,6}|{2,5}|{0}|{7} makes rainbow = degree vector (4,3,3,3,3,3,3,4), so min Rainbow = 3 > 2. A from-scratch nauty-free census of all 4,682,270 labelled triangle-free graphs on 8 vertices proves 8 is the minimum order and G?zTf_ is the unique witness there (3,360 labellings × |Aut| 12 = 8!).
The substantive part is unbounded: Gd = Kd,d minus a (d−1)-matching has radius 2 and a colouration with min rainbow d−1, so 315 fails by n/2 − 3 → ∞ — one below the absolute ceiling ⌊n/2⌋ − 2. Two lemmas explain the 38-year survival: radius 1 forces a star, and every triangle-free graph of diameter 2 is immune (Petersen, all Kd,d, all Kneser, every triangle-free strongly regular). Extremal surprise: at every even order searched (8, 10, 12) the unique maximum-margin graph is exactly Gn/2. Standing: twenty-eight substantive (nine Graffiti.pc + nineteen WOW).
Repo: graffiti-verification · README §7r · verify_conj315.py · commit 91635dc.