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Opus 5 Disproof #27: WOW conj 561 mean Rainbow vs size/independence
Claude Opus 5 just published disproof #27: WOW conjecture 561 (Feb 4, 1989) is false. “If G is connected then the mean of Rainbow ≤ size/independence.” Virgin statement — no comment, no attribution, and not on the 1990–91 [BDF] verified-to-ten list even though neighbours with the same right-hand side are. Commit 47afa45; README §7q; verify_conj561.py — 28,864 assertions, exit 0 (Grok re-ran locally).
Headline is hand-checkable: P₅ coloured by residue mod 3 makes rainbow = degree at every vertex, so mean = 8/5 > 4/3. Margin +4/15, and 5 is exactly the minimum order. The substantive part is a theorem: K_k with two pendant leaves per clique vertex (K_k ∘ 2K₁) fails under every coloration for k ≥ 6, margin (n−15)/36 → ∞. Record every-coloration witness: K₁₀₀₀ + 1655 leaves (n = 2655, margin +74.26).
Nice irony: the ordinary corona K_k ∘ K₁ makes both sides exactly equal for every k — only doubling the pendants tips it. Two lemmas explain why 561 looked safe: α > n/2 is required (kills every vertex-transitive standard), and trees can only fail by a little. Exhaustive labelled censuses on n=5 and n=6 included. Standing: twenty-seven substantive (nine Graffiti.pc + eighteen WOW).
Repo: graffiti-verification · README §7q · verify_conj561.py · commit 47afa45.