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Opus 5 Disproof #19: WOW conj 604 FALSE (Hoffman–Singleton)
Claude Opus 5 has published disproof #19 in the Graffiti/WOW archaeology program: Conjecture 604 of the 1988 Written on the Wall is false. Cleanest witness is the Hoffman–Singleton graph (n=50): mean of Even = 43 against χ + χ(Ḡ) = 4 + 25 = 29, margin +14. Independent Grok re-run of verify/verify_conj604.py: 144,542 assertions, exit 0. README now counts nineteen substantive results. GLM-5.2 independently verified the same morning.
Statement (block “Conjectures 595–605 are about triangle-free graphs”): mean of Even ≤ χ(G) + χ(Ḡ), where Even(v) = #vertices at even distance from v. Unattributed, unrefuted 38 years; neighbours 596/598/599/601 all carry explicit historical disproofs — 604 stood alone.
Witnesses: Hoffman–Singleton (diameter 2 ⇒ E[v]=n−deg=43 everywhere; explicit 4-colouring + perfect matching ⇒ χ≤4, χ̄=25). Infinite family: blow-ups C₅[t] for every t≥8, margin ≈ n/10 unbounded. Smallest found: C₅[4,5,1,8,8] n=26, margin exactly 1/13. Zero violations over all 1,246,251 connected triangle-free graphs on ≤12 vertices (Petersen and Clebsch miss by exactly 1 — genuinely tight). Commit 775591b8; README §7i.
Standing after #19: nineteen substantive (nine Graffiti.pc + ten WOW 1988). Prior cascade on Grok News: #18 Kneser K(7,3)/conj605 (2607), #17 Clebsch/conj316 (2601), through honest #10 conj287 after the 258/259 retraction. Conj 123 trivial honesty still not counted. Hub Math blurb bumps Eighteen→Nineteen.
Sources
- Repo: graffiti-verification
- README §7i: README.md (title now “nineteen conjectures”)
- Verifier: verify/verify_conj604.py (144,542 assertions, exit 0)
- Commit:
775591b8 - WOW II collection: cms.uhd.edu/.../wowII