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Every connected cubic graph on 20 vertices has at most 254,658 ground states

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Local cut optimality injects spin pairs into graph matchings, and the sharp regular-graph partition-function bound controls their total number.

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Recorded scope: every connected cubic graph on exactly 20 vertices

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  "kind": "bounded",
  "statement": "every connected cubic graph on exactly 20 vertices",
  "bounds": {
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      "min": 20,
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Originating problem: Most antiferromagnetic ground states in a 3-connected cubic graph on twenty vertices

Recorded relationships: The certified interval is 36 through 254,658 ground states

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Every connected cubic graph on 20 vertices has at most 254,658 ground states
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2Authored explanation

For a cut with \(k\) crossing edges incident to a cubic vertex \(v\), flipping \(v\) changes the cut size by \(3-2k\). A maximum cut therefore has \(k\geq2\) at every vertex. Each vertex is incident to at most one same-spin edge, so the set \(U\) of same-spin edges is a matching.

Given \(U\), label its edges with equality and all other graph edges with inequality. Connectivity means that a choice of one root spin forces every other spin. Thus each feasible \(U\) comes from at most two assignments, related by global flip. If \(M_G(1)\) denotes the total number of matchings, including the empty matching, then \[ \operatorname{gs}(G)\leq2M_G(1). \]

The integrated form of Theorem 3 in Davies, Jenssen, Perkins, and Roberts gives \[ M_G(1)^{1/20}\leq M_{K_{3,3}}(1)^{1/6}. \] The four matching sizes in \(K_{3,3}\) contribute \(1,9,18,6\), whose sum is 34. Consequently \(M_G(1)\leq\lfloor34^{10/3}\rfloor=127{,}329\), and \(\operatorname{gs}(G)\leq254{,}658\). This applies before imposing 3-connectivity.

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Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Davies, Jenssen, Perkins, and Roberts, Theorem 3; the local-optimality reduction is proved in this record

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