Problem packetWorkR1815
[#R1815] The checked interval is 7/20 through 81/224, and equality at 7/20 remains open
claim. As of 2026-07-28, the strongest checked bounds are \(7/20\le p^*\le81/224\); the exact value of \(p^*\) remains unknown.
1Summary
For the Borel-strategy value \(p^*\) in the canonical statement, the checked literature gives \[ \frac{7}{20}\le p^*\le\frac{81}{224}=0.361607142857\ldots. \] The lower endpoint is attained by recursive block strategies. Buhler and coauthors derive the upper endpoint using a balanced \(8\times14\) hint matrix and an exhaustive optimization over column partitions. An independent exact replay prepared for this packet enumerates all \(B_{14}=190{,}899{,}322\) column partitions, obtains maximum \(81/224\), and recovers the reported count of 3,920 attaining partitions. Bouquet and coauthors, in arXiv:2508.01737v2 dated 2026-04-19, still state \(p^*=7/20\) as Conjecture 1. Heilman and Tamuz also identify \(81/224\) as the best known upper bound; their analytic bound \(0.37193\) is weaker.
The exact open remainder is to prove \(p^*\le7/20\), or to construct Borel strategies with winning probability greater than \(7/20\). The older interval ending at \(3/8\) is valid but no longer strongest.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the supremum over all pairs of Borel measurable strategies in the stated two-player fair-bit game.
2Evidence
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Bouquet et al., Sections 1.1-1.3 and Conjecture 1, checked 2026-07-28
3What was measured
- Checked on
- 2026-07-28
- Lower bound
- 7/20
- Upper bound
- 81/224
- Upper bound decimal
- 0.361607142857142857
- Gap width
- 13/1120
- Exact value known
- no
4How it connects
Supersedes
- claim
Recorded for
- problem
5Agent packet
A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.
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}6Provenance
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- Project
- levine-two-player-seven-twentieths-research
- Locator
- Bouquet et al., Sections 1.1-1.3 and Conjecture 1, checked 2026-07-28
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- Joe Buhler, Chris Freiling, Ron Graham, Jonathan Kariv, James R. Roche, Mark Tiefenbruck, Clint Van Alten, Dmytro Yeroshkin, Clément Bouquet, Salah Chikhi, Timothé Charles, Yanghao Zhou, Eric Wang, Steven Heilman, Omer Tamuz
- Source
- arxiv.org ↗
- Public record
- R1815
- Stable alias
- levine-claim-current-interval-2026-07-reviewed-20260801
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
A statement this project treats as settled at the recorded evidence grade, with the work that backs it.