Solution

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There are three vertex types, with all legs labeled in the following original drawings:
Figure 1.
The three fundamental cubic gauge-boson vertex types
. Details.
The gluon cubic interaction vertex follows from the non-Abelian gauge field strength of Quantum chromodynamics. The electroweak Yang-Mills theory Lagrangian, after expressing the fields in the physical charged and neutral basis, produces the two charged-W boson vertices. In particular there are no fundamental , , , or vertices, and the separate colour and electroweak gauge factors do not generate a mixed or vertex. The count is by the boson labels requested, not by separate assignments of gluon colour indices.

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