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  "slug": "gtc-claim-caterpillars",
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  "title": "Every caterpillar is graceful",
  "summary": "Rosa's zig-zag labeling gives a graceful labeling, in fact an alpha-labeling, for every caterpillar.",
  "relevance": "For Graceful tree conjecture, record gtc-claim-caterpillars (“Every caterpillar is graceful”) records a bound, answer, status fact, or structural consequence. The record states: Rosa's zig-zag labeling gives a graceful labeling, in fact an alpha-labeling, for every caterpillar.",
  "relevance_source": "recorded",
  "body": "Walk the spine and assign labels alternately from the low end and the high end of the available range. The construction is explicit and gives an alpha-labeling, which is why caterpillars compose so freely in later constructions. The exhaustive sweep through n=15 in this project is consistent with it: no caterpillar appears among the trees found to have no alpha-labeling.",
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    "kind": "family",
    "statement": "caterpillars, of any size",
    "family": "caterpillars"
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    "citation": {
      "url": "https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/DS6",
      "locator": "Gallian, Dynamic Survey of Graph Labeling, Rosa 1967"
    },
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  "source": {
    "url": "https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/DS6",
    "locator": "Gallian, Dynamic Survey of Graph Labeling, Rosa 1967"
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      "slug": "R345",
      "title": "Extend the caterpillar construction to lobsters",
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