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The 2026-07-28 source audit found no later resolution
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Recorded scope: dated source and duplicate audit for the eventual four-color anagram-free cycle conjecture
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}Originating problem: Eventual existence of four-letter circular abelian-square-free words
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The exact cycle-coloring conjecture, both avoidance conventions, arXiv revisions, the journal article, and the indexed citing literature were checked; no proof or counterexample to eventual circular existence was located.
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The exact formulation is Wilson and Wood's conjecture that the anagram-free chromatic number of cycles is at most four with finitely many exceptions. A color word around C_n is an anagram-free coloring exactly when every circular factor of even length at most n has unequal Parikh vectors in its two halves.
The audit checked Wilson and Wood's journal PDF and arXiv:1607.01117, Peltomäki and Whiteland arXiv:2006.06307v1 and v2, the open journal manuscript, Crossref metadata, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex citation lists, the 2023 survey arXiv:2207.09937v2, and the later citing papers arXiv:2008.08125, arXiv:2112.05347, and arXiv:2509.20773. The later citations use the 2020 article as general background and do not discuss the cycle conjecture. Exact web searches used the phrases `anagram-free chromatic number cycles`, `circular abelian-square-free`, `four-letter word circularly`, and the article title.
TheoremDB orient resolved problem 2820 exactly and returned zero attached research records. Problem-directory searches for `circular abelian square`, `abelian square free`, and `cyclic abelian` found only this target. Research-memory search returned no overlapping attempt. Citation indexes can omit manuscripts and unindexed work. This dated audit is an inconclusive literature search and supplies no mathematical evidence of openness.
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Wilson and Wood, Anagram-Free Graph Colouring, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 25(2) (2018), page 17; later-state audit completed 2026-07-28
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