A regular cube has its 12 edges colored with 12 different colors. Each edge is colored with exactly one color, and any two edges that share a vertex must receive different colors. Express the probability that all 12 edges are colored with pairwise distinct colors as a reduced fraction and calculate .
This problem is based on RUC-AIBOX. OlymMATH: A Dataset of Olympiad-Level Math Problems (en-hard split, test row 31). Available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RUC-AIBOX/OlymMATH
[THOUGHT] I will:
- Build the cube graph (Q3) with 8 vertices labeled 0..7, edges between vertices with Hamming distance 1.
- Construct its line graph L(Q3) whose vertices correspond to cube edges, and adjacency corresponds to sharing a vertex.
- Use sympy’s Graph.chromatic_polynomial() to compute the chromatic polynomial P(k) of L(Q3).
- Evaluate P(12) to get the total number of proper edge-colorings with 12 colors (denominator).
- The number of colorings where all 12 edges are pairwise distinct is 12! (any injective assignment is automatically proper).
- Form the reduced fraction q/p = 12! / P(12), reduce it, and output p+q.
Now I will implement this in Python. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] from sympy import symbols, factorial, Rational from sympy.combinatorics.graph import Graph
Step 1: Build cube graph Q3 with vertices 0..7
Vertices: 3-bit numbers 0..7; edge if Hamming distance is 1.
cube_vertices = list(range(8)) cube_edges = []
def hamming_distance(a, b): return bin(a ^ b).count("1")
for i in cube_vertices: for j in range(i+1, 8): if hamming_distance(i, j) == 1: cube_edges.append((i, j))
Sanity check: cube should have 12 edges
print("Cube edges:", cube_edges, "Count:", len(cube_edges))
Step 2: Construct line graph L(Q3)
Vertices of line graph are indices of cube_edges: 0..11
line_vertices = list(range(len(cube_edges))) line_edges = []
for i in range(len(cube_edges)): for j in range(i+1, len(cube_edges)): e1 = cube_edges[i] e2 = cube_edges[j] # edges adjacent in cube if they share a vertex if len(set(e1).intersection(e2)) > 0: line_edges.append((i, j))
Sanity check: properties of line graph
print("Line graph vertex count:", len(line_vertices)) print("Line graph edge count:", len(line_edges))
Step 3: Build sympy Graph and compute chromatic polynomial
G_line = Graph() G_line.add_vertices(*line_vertices) for u, v in line_edges: G_line.add_edge(u, v)
k = symbols('k') chrom_poly = G_line.chromatic_polynomial(k) print("Chromatic polynomial P(k) of line graph:") print(chrom_poly)
Step 4: Evaluate at k=12 to get total number of proper colorings
P_12 = chrom_poly.subs(k, 12) P_12_simplified = int(P_12) print("P(12) =", P_12_simplified)
Step 5: Number of colorings with all 12 edges distinct is 12!
num_distinct = int(factorial(12)) print("12! =", num_distinct)
Step 6: Probability = 12! / P(12), reduce fraction and compute p+q
from sympy import fraction, simplify prob = Rational(num_distinct, P_12_simplified) prob_simplified = simplify(prob) q, p = prob_simplified.numerator, prob_simplified.denominator print("Probability simplified q/p =", prob_simplified) print("q =", q, "p =", p) print("p+q =", p + q) [/PYTHON]
[THOUGHT] I need to recompute the total number of proper edge colorings of the cube with 12 colors without using the missing sympy.graph module. I’ll:
- Build the cube graph Q3 (8 vertices, 12 edges).
- Build its line graph L(Q3) with 12 vertices (one per cube edge), edges joining vertices whose cube edges share an endpoint.
- Count proper colorings of L(Q3) with 12 colors without enumerating all 12^12 assignments:
- Use abstract colors (1..m) and backtracking over vertices 0..11, building color patterns up to relabeling symmetry.
- For each completed pattern using m abstract colors, it corresponds to (12)_m = 12·11·...·(12−m+1) actual colorings.
- Sum (12)_m over all patterns to get P(12), the total number of proper edge colorings with 12 actual colors.
- The favorable colorings where all 12 edges have distinct colors are exactly 12! (any bijection edge→color is automatically proper).
- Compute the probability = 12! / P(12), reduce it, and output p+q.
Now I'll implement this backtracking and counting in Python. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] from math import factorial from fractions import Fraction
Step 1: Build cube graph Q3 (vertices 0..7, edges between vertices with Hamming distance 1)
cube_vertices = list(range(8)) cube_edges = []
def hamming_distance(a, b): return bin(a ^ b).count("1")
for i in cube_vertices: for j in range(i+1, 8): if hamming_distance(i, j) == 1: cube_edges.append((i, j))
print("Cube edges:", cube_edges, "Count:", len(cube_edges))
Step 2: Build line graph L(Q3)
Vertices: 0..11 each representing an edge in cube_edges
n = len(cube_edges) adj = [set() for _ in range(n)]
for i in range(n): for j in range(i+1, n): e1 = cube_edges[i] e2 = cube_edges[j] if len(set(e1).intersection(e2)) > 0: adj[i].add(j) adj[j].add(i)
print("Line graph vertex count:", n) print("Line graph edge count:", sum(len(s) for s in adj) // 2)
Step 3: Precompute falling factorials (12)_m
k_colors = 12 ffall = [1] * (n + 1) for m in range(1, n + 1): f = 1 for j in range(m): f *= (k_colors - j) ffall[m] = f
print("Falling factorials (12)_m for m=0..12:", ffall)
Step 4: Backtracking over color patterns (abstract colors)
total_P12 = 0
def dfs(i, colors, maxc): """ i: current vertex index to color (0..n) colors: list of assigned abstract colors for vertices 0..i-1 maxc: maximum abstract color label used so far """ global total_P12 if i == n: # Completed a color pattern using 'maxc' abstract colors total_P12 += ffall[maxc] return
# Colors used by neighbors of vertex i among already-colored vertices
used_neighbor_colors = set()
for nb in adj[i]:
if nb < i:
used_neighbor_colors.add(colors[nb])
# Try existing colors 1..maxc that are not used by neighbors
for c in range(1, maxc + 1):
if c not in used_neighbor_colors:
colors.append(c)
dfs(i + 1, colors, maxc)
colors.pop()
# Try introducing a new color maxc+1, if we have not exceeded k_colors
newc = maxc + 1
if newc <= k_colors:
colors.append(newc)
dfs(i + 1, colors, newc)
colors.pop()
dfs(0, [], 0)
print("Total proper colorings P(12) =", total_P12)
Step 5: Number of colorings with all 12 edges distinct: 12!
num_distinct = factorial(12) print("12! =", num_distinct)
Step 6: Probability and reduced fraction q/p, then p+q
prob = Fraction(num_distinct, total_P12) q, p = prob.numerator, prob.denominator print("Probability q/p =", prob) print("q =", q, "p =", p) print("p+q =", p + q) [/PYTHON]
[THOUGHT] Using the line graph of the cube and counting proper colorings with 12 colors via backtracking (weighted by falling factorials for actual color choices), we found:
- Total proper edge-colorings with 12 colors: P(12) = 1038542714880.
- Colorings with all 12 edges distinct: 12! = 479001600. Thus the desired probability is 12! / P(12) = 2835/6146678, so p = 6146678, q = 2835, and p+q = 6149513. [/THOUGHT] \boxed{6149513}