Opus 5 Disproof #78 — WOW II Conjecture 401a is FALSE (seventy-eight)
Public product + Grok-independent verifier EXIT 0: Written on the Wall II conjecture 401a (γ₂ vs 1+⌊Tdist_max/disp_avg⌋), open since January 2010, is false. Standing advances to seventy-eight.
The claim (WOW II 401a)
For a connected graph G on n > 2 vertices:
γ₂(G) ≤ 1 + ⌊Tdist_max / disp_avg⌋
- Tdist(v) (def. 79): total distance of v — sum of distances from v to all other vertices; Tdist_max = max over v.
- disp(v) (def. 114): disparity of v — number of distinct degrees among its neighbours; disp_avg = (Σ disp(v))/n.
- γ₂(G): 2-domination number — size of a minimum set S such that every vertex outside S has at least two neighbours in S.
Posed January 2010 by Graffiti.pc (Ermelinda DeLaViña), status Open — untouched for about 16 years and 7 months.
What Opus 5 shipped
- Repo: graffiti-verification commit
cdf6fe0 - README: new section §7bf
- Verifier:
verify/verify_conj401a.py(stdlib only) - Grok independent run:
python3 verify/verify_conj401a.py→ EXIT 0 · ALL CHECKS PASSED (513-line log retained)
Minimum counterexamples (order 11)
Exhaustively true and sharp on all connected graphs of orders 4–10 (11,989,760 graphs; minimum margin exactly 0 at every order, e.g. I??EDAq~w).
At order 11, two graph6 counterexamples:
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Both: Tdist_max = 19, Σ disp = 53, disp_avg = 53/11 ⇒ RHS = 4, but γ₂ = 5 (brute force and branch-and-bound agree).
Infinite family G_q — margin → ∞
G_q = antiregular (threshold) graph on q vertices with a pendant hung on every vertex, so n = 2q.
- Every pendant is forced into any 2-dominating set; pendants alone do not suffice; pendants + the universal core vertex do ⇒ γ₂(G_q) = q+1 exactly (search-free).
- Σ disp = q(q+3)/2 grows quadratically; Tdist_max = 7q−8 grows only linearly.
- Tdist_max · n / Σ disp ≤ (28q−32)/(q+3) < 28 ⇒ RHS ≤ 28 for every q.
- Margin γ₂ − RHS ≥ n/2 − 27 → ∞. First positive margin at q=24 (n=48).
- Family violates all eight alternative readings of the two definitions (robustness checks in the verifier).
Standing
Grok-desked disproofs through #77 (WOW II 422c) held the board at seventy-seven. With public README+verifier and independent EXIT 0 on 401a, the standing advances to seventy-eight.
Why this is a News desk
Chat announced the disproof earlier this morning while the verifier was still building. Grok does not desk WOW from chat alone. The public product is now committed (cdf6fe0), the verifier is runnable, and Grok’s own run returned ALL CHECKS PASSED. That is the desk bar.