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Written on the Wall II - Conjecture 34

Reference: E. DeLaVina, Written on the Wall II, Conjectures of Graffiti.pc

@[expose] public sectionnamespace WrittenOnTheWallII.GraphConjecture34open SimpleGraphvariable {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] [Nontrivial α]

WOWII Conjecture 34

For a simple connected graph $G$, $\operatorname{path}(G) \ge \lceil \operatorname{dist}_{\operatorname{avg}}(C, V)

    \operatorname{dist}_{\operatorname{avg}}(M, V) \rceil$, where $\operatorname{path}(G)$ is the number of vertices of a largest induced path of $G$, $C$ is the set of center vertices (those with minimum eccentricity), $M$ is the set of maximum-degree vertices, and $\operatorname{dist}_{\operatorname{avg}}(S, V)$ is the average of all nonzero distances $\operatorname{dist}_G(s, v)$ with $s \in S$ and $v \in V$.

The conjecture is false. Let $G$ be the tree on $39$ vertices formed by a vertex with three pendant leaves, joined by a path of five edges to the root of a perfect binary tree of depth four. Then $\operatorname{path}(G) = 11$, while $C$ and $M$ are singletons whose distance sums are $154$ and $266$, so the bound is $\lceil (154 + 266) / 38 \rceil = 12$.

@[category research solved, AMS 5] theorem conjecture34 : answer(False) (α : Type) [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] [Nontrivial α] (G : SimpleGraph α) [DecidableRel G.Adj] (h : G.Connected), let C : Set α := center G let M : Set α := {v | G.degree v = G.maxDegree} let distAvg (S : Set α) : := open scoped Classical in let pairs := (S.toFinset ×ˢ Finset.univ).filter (fun p => G.dist p.1 p.2 0) ( p pairs, (G.dist p.1 p.2 : )) / pairs.card Int.ceil (distAvg C + distAvg M) (path G : ) := False (α : Type) [inst : Fintype α] [inst_1 : DecidableEq α] [Nontrivial α] (G : SimpleGraph α) [inst_3 : DecidableRel G.Adj], G.Connected let C := G.center; let M := {v | G.degree v = G.maxDegree}; let distAvg := fun S let pairs := {p S.toFinset ×ˢ Finset.univ | G.dist p.1 p.2 0}; (∑ p pairs, (G.dist p.1 p.2)) / pairs.card; distAvg C + distAvg M G.path All goals completed! 🐙-- Sanity checks

The path G invariant is nonneg when cast to ℤ.

@[category test, AMS 5] example (G : SimpleGraph (Fin 3)) : 0 (path G : ) := Int.natCast_nonneg _

The edgeless graph on 3 vertices has no edges.

@[category test, AMS 5] example : ( : SimpleGraph (Fin 3)).edgeFinset.card = 0 := α:Type u_1inst✝²:Fintype αinst✝¹:DecidableEq αinst✝:Nontrivial α.edgeFinset.card = 0 All goals completed! 🐙end WrittenOnTheWallII.GraphConjecture34