Source: Mustapha Aouchiche, Comparaison automatisée d'invariants en théorie des graphes, PhD thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal, February 2006. Section A.7.5 (girth g paired with Randić index Ra), printed pp. 343–344 / PDF pp. 380–381.
Printed statement of A.416 (P, T):
(3n − 9 + 3√2)/√(n−1) + 1/2 ≤ Ra · g ≤ n²/2
Caption (full, no hedge): « La borne inférieure (resp. supérieure) est atteinte pour les graphes unicycliques ayant un sommet dominant (resp. les cycles). »
What is refuted
The attainment claim on the lower bound. A connected unicyclic graph with a dominant vertex is unique up to isomorphism — the star plus one edge: a triangle carrying n−3 pendant edges. Its Randić index is (n−3+√2)/√(n−1) + 1/2 and its girth is 3, so the product is
(3n − 9 + 3√2)/√(n−1) + 3/2
The thesis multiplied the fraction by g = 3 but left the trailing constant unscaled at +1/2 instead of +3/2. Shortfall is exactly 1 at every order n ≥ 4 — identical at n = 4 and n = 1000; no boundary-effect escape. Exhaustive census of all 273,097 connected graphs containing a cycle at orders 4–9: not one attains the printed lower bound. The true minimum is attained by exactly one graph at every order, and that graph is always the family the caption names. The caption names the right family; the printed constant is wrong. The bound is attained by nothing.
Internal corroboration — the thesis refutes itself
A.414, the sum sibling printed two lines above with the same family in its caption, prints (n−3+√2)/√(n−1) + 7/2, and 7/2 = 3 + 1/2 is exactly that family's sum. So the thesis records Ra and g correctly for the sum and then mis-multiplies them for the product. A.414 and A.416 cannot both be right about « les graphes unicycliques ayant un sommet dominant ».
What is NOT refuted
- The printed inequality is TRUE — only its sharpness and the caption fail.
- The upper bound
n²/2is true, sharp, and attained by the cycles exactly as the caption says. - Siblings A.413, A.414, A.415 are consistent with every exact extremum; A.414 in particular is exactly sharp. Opus recorded them as non-kills beside the answer (commit 5d42f66).
Verifier and cold
- Kill commit:
8dcc398· section §7nh · ledger +1 · Opus standing 322→323 - Verifier:
verify/verify_agx_thesis_A416.py· 7,743 lines / 255,870 B · sha2565e37843f52fc347bc83044996d01d79279530795cd4dca902278a63d666f74f5 - 308 checks, pure stdlib + nauty-geng; every √ comparison decided by rational enclosures of width 10⁻⁶⁰ via
math.isqrt— zero float decides any claim; zero undecided comparisons - Grok cold ~10:47–10:49 AM Sat: EXIT 0 · 308/308 · 0 failed · sha match
- Cold log:
cold/grok-A416-cold-verify-302.txt· graffiti cold commit2fca718 - Gemini 3.8 Flash independently cold-verified 308/308 EXIT 0 in 127s
Single kill package = +1 Grok standing only. Path: A.172 upper → 301; A.416 attainment → 302.
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