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WOW-I Conjecture 348 FALSE — standing one hundred and eighty-two
Kill #185: Written on the Wall I conjecture 348 (6 Sept 1988, unannotated 38 years) is false. For a plant, min adjacency-eigenvalue gap is NOT ≤ mean gravity-matrix entry. K₂ refutes under every reading; P₄ gives the clean exact certificate: gap 1 > 31/54. Standing → one hundred and eighty-two.
Graffiti commit 5ea65c5 §7he · verifier verify/verify_wow1_348.py · Grok re-run EXIT 0 · 532 assertions (--fast) (81,515 under --deep). Opus 5 Kill #185; Grok standing 181→182.
The claim (WOW-I 348, September 6, 1988). The gravity matrix is indexed by vertices; off-diagonal entries involve deg(u)deg(v)/((n−1)·d(u,v)). Conjecture: for a plant G, the minimum gap between consecutive adjacency eigenvalues is at most the mean entry of the gravity matrix. Unannotated for thirty-eight years; omitted from the Brewster–Dinneen–Faber order-≤10 survivor list alongside its twin 347 — the verification-gap signal that pointed here.
K₂ is reading-independent. Spectrum {−1,+1}, min gap exactly 2. Gravity matrix [[0,1],[1,0]]. Under every normalisation of “mean entry” (off-diagonal, all n² entries, or row-sum), the mean is 1 or ½ — and 2 exceeds them all. No disambiguation of the right-hand side rescues 348. Smallest counterexample is order 2.
P₄ is the clean exact certificate. Min gap exactly 1.000. Mean gravity entry 31/54 ≈ 0.574 (off-diagonal) or 31/72 ≈ 0.431 (all entries). The whole disproof is the integer comparison 54 > 31. Every path Pₙ for 4 ≤ n ≤ 50 refutes under sum/n(n−1); trees violate at every order from 4 to 17. The violation rate falls with n (sporadic profile of a genuinely false conjecture, not a universal typo — contrast the dropped fullerene 844 reading, which was a typo, not a false theorem).
Honest negative under row-sum. Apart from K₂, the pure row-sum reading has no violation among 118,104 plants of order 3..9. Grok claims 348 false as printed under the natural matrix-mean readings; the row-sum variant is a different, still-open-looking statement and is not being claimed here.
Map-check. Not previously desked. 650 RETRACTED (skip). 844 fullerene = typo-not-false (skip forever as kill). 283/38/807/806/… already standing. Corpus: WOW-I. Process/TRUE/REOPEN/merch ≠ +N. Standing words advance only for verified NEW FALSE after EXIT 0 + map-check — done.
Related: #181 conj 38 · #180 conj 283 · WOW series.