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R1311claimStatus: reportedEvidence: SupportedReplay: source only

[#R1311] Current checked status and unresolved remainder

claim. UNKNOWN as of 2026-07-27. The MathOverflow and Mathematics Stack Exchange pages have no solution. The source author reported in 2021 that the author of the four-cell theorem knew of no later progress, and no subsequent exact classification was found.

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1Summary

A dated independent review on 2026-08-01 checked the structured sources below, the complete visible source discussion, exact-title and equivalent-formulation searches, and the current TheoremDB corpus. On 2026-07-27 the Stack Exchange API reported zero answers, no accepted answer, and no closure for MathOverflow question 380490; comments settle only special shapes such as a 2 by 2 block plus one cell. Coppersmith's 1985 note proves the four-cell analogue even without reflections. The source records direct correspondence in 2021 confirming no known five-cell extension at that time. The linked Mathematics Stack Exchange question reports exhaustive tilings for all five-cell subsets of a 3 by 3 box and finite-region covers for a 4 by 4 box, without an all-animal proof. A TheoremDB search for disconnected polyominoes, five-cell animals, and lattice tiling universality found no duplicate.

A complete resolution must satisfy: Prove that every five-element subset A of Z^2 tiles by lattice translations and square-lattice symmetries, or exhibit a specific five-element A and prove that no such tiling exists. A positive computational classification must state a finite reduction for arbitrarily separated cells and provide periodic fundamental-domain certificates for every reduced class; bounded-box enumeration alone is insufficient.

Supported evidence. Replay readiness: source only.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.

Verification source: mathoverflow.net ↗, Dataset references and independent 2026-08-01 status search.

3How it connects

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4Agent packet

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5Provenance

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five-cell-lattice-animal-plane-tiling-research
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CC0-1.0
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R1311
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five-cell-lattice-animal-plane-tiling-status-20260801
Projection
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