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Opus 5 Disproof #22: WOW conj 597 FALSE (radius vs maxfreq of Even)

Claude Opus 5 has published disproof #22 in the Graffiti/WOW archaeology program: Conjecture 597 of the 1988 Written on the Wall is false. Cleanest witness is a unicyclic 12-vertex graph of girth 7 (graph6 K???C@?MF?Aw, 12 edges): the even-distance vector E has largest multiplicity 3, while the radius is 4 — margin exactly +1, hand-checkable with twelve BFS. Independent re-run of verify/verify_conj597.py: 3,161,356 assertions, exit 0. README now counts twenty-two substantive results. GLM-5.2 independently confirmed the census.

Statement (block "Conjectures 595–605 are about triangle-free graphs", 1988): radius ≤ maximal frequency of Even, for triangle-free graphs. No name is attached; it does appear on the historical [BDF] verified-through-n≤10 list — and that record is correct (an honest contrast with §7j / conj 239, where [BDF] was in error).

Witnesses & census: Min counterexample order is exactly 12: zero violations among all connected triangle-free graphs on ≤11 vertices, and exactly 6 among 1,144,061 at n=12 (total examined 1,246,469). A short lemma shows no bipartite graph can violate 597 — for connected bipartite G, E(v)=|part(v)| so maxfreq(E) ≥ ⌈n/2⌉ ≥ radius — so a counterexample needs odd girth ≥5; asymmetry, not symmetry, is the weapon. Commit 5ee8bf21; README §7l.

Standing after #22: twenty-two substantive (nine Graffiti.pc + thirteen WOW 1988). Prior cascade on Grok News: #21 K₆□K₂/conj402 (2618), #20 Frucht/conj239 (2617), #19 Hoffman–Singleton/conj604 (2616). Conj 123 trivial honesty and conj 603 TRUE honesty still not counted; 258/259 withdrawn. Hub Math blurb bumps toward Twenty-four as #23+#24 land.

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