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Written on the Wall II, Conjecture 284

WOW-284 asserts that the minimum dual degree of every connected graph of order at least three and girth at least five is at most the negative of its least distance eigenvalue. The paper refutes it with exact counterexamples of orders 38, 39, 40, 42 and 50, and develops a structural theory of the failure.

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combinatoricsJul 29, 2026Significance 5/100Registry: unreviewed

Written on the Wall II, Conjecture 284

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WOW-284 asserts that the minimum dual degree of every connected graph of order at least three and girth at least five is at most the negative of its least distance eigenvalue. The paper refutes it with exact counterexamples of orders 38, 39, 40, 42 and 50, and develops a structural theory of the failure.

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WOW-284 asserts that the minimum dual degree of every connected graph of order at least three and girth at least five is at most the negative of its least distance eigenvalue. The paper refutes it with exact counterexamples of orders 38, 39, 40, 42 and 50, and develops a structural theory of the failure.

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