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The 4-Color Rado Number of $x+y+c=z$: $R(c)=40c+41$ Whenever $c+1$ Is Divisible by 3, 4, 5 or 7

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four-color-rado-number-of-x-y-c-z-40c-41Combinatoricsposed by ABEMRS16 (Math. Comp. 85, 2016, §5.5); Myers (Ph.D. thesis, 2015, Conj. 4.9), 2015recorded: partial

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R(c)=40c+41R(c) = 40c+41 for every c2c \geq 2 such that c+1c+1 is divisible by 3, 4, 5, or 7 (covering 66%\approx 66\% of all cc); the full conjecture (Myers 2015 Conj. 4.9, ABEMRS16 §5.5) reduces to prime cases p89p \geq 89, all smaller primes settled by SAT. Twenty-eight exact values, nineteen new primes p=11,,83p = 11, \ldots, 83, zero deviations from the conjectured line.

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Twenty-eight individual exact values, each proved by SAT certificate (coloring at n-1, UNSAT at n). The synthesis theorem covers every c >= 2 whose c+1 is divisible by 3, 4, 5, or 7 (~66% of integers). The prime-reduction corollary shows the full conjecture (R(c)=40c+41 for all c >= 2) is equivalent to checking primes p >= 89; all primes through 83 are settled. What stays open: the conjecture at c=88 (p=89) and every larger c whose c+1 has all prime factors >= 89. The scaling lemma's attribution is hedged relative to Malo 2000 (full text not accessed). No Lean formalization; the SAT certificates and dual-encoder architecture are the verification tier.

A ten-year-old conjecture with real standing - posed independently in a Math. Comp. paper and a Rutgers thesis, in the Schur/Rado tradition - advanced to two thirds of all cases with a clean reduction of the remainder to primes. Specialist territory, and the conjecture itself stays open, which caps it: level with the a >= 4 dihedral theorem (8), above the finite-cell bundles (5), below the Erdos entries at 10.

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    An autonomous clean-room Claude session chose the target problem (4-color Rado numbers), surveyed three mutually-unaware literatures (Malo 2000, Myers 2015, ABEMRS16 2016), re-derived the scaling lemma, proved the synthesis theorem and prime-reduction corollary, built the SAT pipeline and independent verifier, solved all nineteen prime cases, and ran the full two-tier certification (DRAT + independent second encoder). Two independent AI referee agents verified the proof (both CONFIRMED). Human direction limited to run design, operational supervision, and posting.

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