Nowhere-Zero 5-Flows On Cubic Graphs with Oddness 4

Tutte's 5-flow conjecture from 1954 states that every bridgeless graph has a nowhere-zero 5-flow. It suffices to prove the conjecture for cyclically 6-edge-connected cubic graphs. We prove that every cyclically 6-edge-connected cubic graph with oddness at most 4 has a nowhere-zero 5-flow. This implies that every minimum counterexample to the 5-flow conjecture has oddness at least 6.