T-093:
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed
= 4.66044275, by Guzhou0806 / N17 project's R071 release of 30 September 2026, on the charge of R068 (T-043). It raised the verified bound by exactly 11/4000000 over T-043's 116511/25000 and leaves 0.0150873 to Bidwell's 4.67553009.
The certificate keeps every point orbit, rule orbit and weight of R068, and its budget of 17000448944 units of 10^-9, and rebuilds every strict core for the smaller parent side 18452000/18641771 in the container 4613/1000, over 5,114 parent-angle intervals that refine R068's 4,991. The source reports a least core charge of 1000026844 over all 5,114 intervals, so seventeen cores exceed the budget by 7404. It refines R070 of the day before, = 4.6604427 over 5,107 intervals, which it supersedes.
It was replayed here in full on 5 October 2026, the first replay of it outside its source: the source retains a completion summary of its own run and says the row records are missing, and its GitHub Actions replay passed unobserved by its publisher. The source's run_public.js ran Guzhou0806's C++ checker and Kleddamag's Node BigInt checker over every interval, and devtools.audit_guzhou_r071 found the two fresh ledgers identical row for row, every row at 1000026844; the two checkers are T-043's byte for byte and one event-cell method. Both refuse two mutated certificates.
Guzhou0806 / N17 project, n17-square-packing, on R068's continuation of Kleddamag's 4.66001 charge. The package credits Kleddamag for the 4.66001 framework, proof and BigInt checker (Kleddamag building on Squares Project (Joshua Levy), Mira and Guzhou0806), and discloses AI assistance.
Significance, composition and next rung
- Significance
- The case's verified lower bound, 2.75 x 10^-6 above T-043 from T-043's charge unchanged, a finer catalogue and rebuilt cores: the construction of T-042, which is S2, adding no orbit, rule, weight or method. T-043's step was 156 times this one and T-039's, the S3 precedent the draft weighed, 83 times; R070's obstruction shows the charge cannot reach 1/40000000 further, so this is the end of a recipe rather than an opening. Holding the verified field is a fact about the frontier, not the claim; a reader who weighs it above the size of the step would score S3 by T-039, and the score gates nothing.
- Next rung
- V4 and C4 need a second adversarial AI review by a distinct reviewer and a human oversight record, as T-043's next_rung says; a second machine method needs the native parent-core route to read the weighted and winning-subset features, which it still cannot. The r071-bound artifact of the source's CI run, which expires on 2026-12-29 and could not be fetched here, holds a third ledger that could be compared row by row with the fresh ones; it would add a comparison, not a rung. R070's obstruction puts the reach of this charge below 186417711/40000000 (review RF-7), so a higher bound needs a new charge or an argument across parents. Rung 5 needs a proof-assistant formalization reviewed by human experts.
- Novelty
- previously-published Present in an identified source
The case
Proven
- exact
Citation record n-017
lowerGuzhou0806 after Kleddamag et al. 2026, GitHub (confirmed T-093)
upperBidwell 1998, Squares in Squares (confirmed T-065)
Open
- optimality
The case record
Results on the case
17 results in the register on , oldest first, each with what it established and how it stands now.
2005 published T-007
for
V0 C1 lower bound incomplete on this case, superseded by T-093
Nagamochi · Nagamochi 2005 · source · register
2026-08-21 published T-015
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Massaccesi after Burns · Burns–Massaccesi n17 · packet · register
2026-08-31 established T-001
, from a sixteen-point unavoidable set
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Levy after Bentz · register
2026-08-31 established T-003
The sixteen-point set's unavoidability ceiling lies in
V3 C3 method limit confirmed
Levy after Bentz · register
2026-09-04 established T-019
for
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Levy after Burns, Massaccesi · register
2026-09-04 published T-085
Nagamochi 2005, Lemma 1 is false for every container with and
V3 C3 correction confirmed
Karakuş; chelokot · Karakuş 2026 · chelokot Nagamochi counterexample 2026 · packet · register
2026-09-20 published T-032
, and beneath it Mira's
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Guzhou0806, Mira after Levy, Burns, Massaccesi · n17 weighted certificates 2026-09-20 · packet · register
2026-09-21 published T-038
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Kleddamag after Levy, Mira, Guzhou0806 · Kleddamag n17 certified bound · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-21 published T-065
, Bidwell's packing certified exactly
V3 C3 upper bound confirmed
Kleddamag after Levy, Mira, Guzhou0806 · Kleddamag n17 certified bound · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-25 published T-039
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Guzhou0806 after Kleddamag, Mira, Levy · Guzhou0806 n17 R052 · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-26 published T-040
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Kleddamag after Levy, Mira, Guzhou0806 · Kleddamag n17 4.640020 · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-27 published T-041
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Kleddamag after Levy, Mira, Guzhou0806 · Kleddamag n17 4.66001 · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-28 published T-042
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Guzhou0806 after Kleddamag, Mira, Levy · Guzhou0806 n17 R067 · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-28 published T-043
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed superseded by T-093
Guzhou0806 after Kleddamag, Mira, Levy · Guzhou0806 n17 R068 · packet · source · review · register
2026-09-29 published T-058
Rectangle-certificate ceiling
α·UB(n)proved for ..100;B·UB(n)on 64 grid rowsV3 C3 method limit confirmed
wand125 after Tokoharu, Daniel · wand125 tools 2026 · packet · register
2026-09-29 published T-083
for every nonsquare
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-093
Karakuş · Karakuş 2026 · source · register
2026-09-30 published T-093 this result
V3 C3 lower bound confirmed
Guzhou0806 after Kleddamag, Mira, Levy · Guzhou0806 n17 R071 · packet · source · review · register
Links
- On this site
- Case record, · Frontier row, · T-093 in the results table
On GitHub, at main
- Register
- T-093 in
results.yaml, line 9194 - Evidence
E-n017-guzhou-r071-report·E-n017-guzhou-r071-source-replay- Proofs and certificates
- certificate
certificate.json· proofBOUND_PROOF.md· auditreview-2026-10-05-guzhou-r071.md - Sources
- Guzhou0806 n17 R071 (its own site, retained copy)
- Source packet
resources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/README.md- Artifacts
12 artifacts and controls
resources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/README.mdresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/n17-square-packing/certificates/R071-C029/BOUND_PROOF.mdresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/receipts/r071/structure.jsonresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/receipts/r071/summary.jsonresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/receipts/r071/compare.jsonresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/receipts/r071/replay/THEOREM.jsonresources/web/n17-guzhou-r071-2026-09-30/receipts/ci/r071-actions-run.jsondevtools/audit_guzhou_r071.pydevtools/replay_guzhou_r071.pydocs/project/reviews/review-2026-10-05-guzhou-r071.mdtests/test_guzhou_r071_packet.pytests/test_retained_data.py- Case file
frontier/n-017.md(verified lower, verified upper, reported lower, reported upper)