ErLV majorant arc nesting #
This file formalizes the geometric core of Erdos--Lovasz--Vesztergombi's
Proposition 2.6 argument. A terminal cover edge makes the two exterior
boundary angles acute. If two such majorants were avoiding, cyclic
convexity propagates those local inequalities to all four angles of their
quadrilateral, contradicting strict_convex_quad_not_all_acute.
A ray strictly between two rays in an open half-plane is their positive linear combination. This determinant identity transfers an acute endpoint inequality to the intermediate ray.
Positive consecutive turns are transitive while the whole chain stays in one open half-plane.
The boundary-half-plane definition of cyclic strict convexity implies positive orientation for every three labels in increasing order from zero.
Positive orientation for any three vertices described by increasing cyclic offsets from an arbitrary base vertex.
Positive orientation for three increasing positions in one unwrapped
window of the cyclic order. The last two positions may exceed n; their
Fin representatives wrap automatically.
With degree at least seven, the two first-neighbor gaps leave at least six polygon sides between their endpoints.
Offset form of ErLV Proposition 2.6's geometric step. If the endpoints
of two terminal edges occur as v < v' < s' < s in one unwrapped cyclic
window, the edges are avoiding, which is impossible.
The ErLV arc-nesting conclusion once the paper's undisplayed inner-end
separation v < v' is made explicit. All remaining order facts, including
u < s, follow from maximality and the degree-seven gap budget.
The two independent k = 3 cover budgets leave exactly three cases in
which the inner endpoints are not strictly ordered as in ErLV Figure 4.
This is an arithmetic partition only: it does not assert that any exceptional
case is geometrically realizable.
Exact extra statement needed to justify ErLV's printed sentence
"Obviously, v' lies on the arc vt" under the draft's side-count
convention. It asks for a jointly minimal pair of actual cover paths whose
facing endpoints consume strictly fewer than the three sides between x
and t.
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All of ErLV Proposition 2.6's geometry now closes the requested nesting headline once the source's undisplayed strict order of the inner endpoints is supplied.
The exact geometric core of ErLV Proposition 2.6: two terminal edges
cannot be avoiding. The four h*Cone hypotheses spell out the cyclic ray
order between each majorant endpoint and the adjacent boundary vertex on
the exterior side.