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TxGraffiti Conjecture 3: independent domination versus saturation (regular): tx_graffiti_conjecture_3

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Statement

TxGraffiti Conjecture 3: for every rr-regular graph GG (r≥1r \ge 1), i(G)≤μ∗(G).i(G) \le \mu^*(G).

This conjecture is open.

Lean statement

theorem tx_graffiti_conjecture_3 (V : Type) [Fintype V] [DecidableEq V]
    (G : SimpleGraph V) [DecidableRel G.Adj]
    (r : ℕ) (_hReg : ∀ v, G.degree v = r) (_hr : 1 ≤ r) :
    G.indepDominationNumber ≤ G.saturationNumber := by
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Tagged category research open in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures at commit a64e959c32c2. Definitions used by the statement are in FormalConjectures/Arxiv/2507.17780/3.lean.

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