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This chapter presents Lipton’s own joint work with Atish Das Sarma on a famous open problem of Tutte, and a new approach to the problem. Tutte famously broke a claimed proof of the Four-Color Map Theorem with an unexpected counterexample graph, but some of his own conjectures about similar graphs retain their difficulty and mystery to this day.
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Lipton, R.J., Regan, K.W. (2013). William Tutte: Flow Problems. In: People, Problems, and Proofs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41422-0_17
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