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Hedetniemi's conjecture (1966): the chromatic number of a tensor product of graphs equals the minimum of the factors' chromatic numbers.

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Assessment

Renown 4/5

A famous 1966 coloring conjecture, believed by most of the field for 53 years.

Attackability 1/5

Counterexamples are astronomically large exponential graphs; no search would have found them. Fell to insight.

finite witness
3/5
oracle cost
1/5
freshness
1/5
seedability
1/5

Confirmed resolution

counterexample by Yaroslav Shitov on .

Refuted after 53 years via exponential graphs; published in Annals of Mathematics. The counterexamples are enormous but the argument is three pages.

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