Problem packetWorkR325
[#R325] Literature and finite-state audit
1Summary
General cover-time theory certifies the interval, and the exact connected-set recurrence reduces the finite computation to 116,166 systems.
Matthews proves the harmonic-factor comparison between cover time and maximal hitting time. Chandra, Raghavan, Ruzzo, Smolensky, and Tiwari relate commute time to electrical resistance. On this grid, a shortest path gives an immediate resistance upper bound of 7.
The finite-state audit enumerated 116,166 connected nonempty subsets. Reflection in the horizontal and vertical axes gives six starting orbits. Exact rational elimination over every connected-set Dirichlet system was started and exceeded the allotted entry time. No exact value or maximizing orbit is claimed here.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: connected visited sets and starting symmetry orbits for simple random walk on P_4 square P_5.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, Peter Matthews, Covering problems for Markov chains, Annals of Probability 16 (1988), 1215-1228; A. Chandra et al., The electrical resistance of a graph captures its commute and cover times, STOC 1989, 574-586
3What was measured
- Connected nonempty subsets
- 116,166
- Connected subset size histogram
- 20, 31, 70, 161, 376, 859, 1,870, 3,794, 7,028, 11,641, 16,872, 20,809, 21,090, 16,702, 9,692, 3,894, 1,050, 186, 20, 1
- Novelty status
- unverified
4How it connects
Informs
- 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
- grid-cover-time-four-by-five
- Locator
- Peter Matthews, Covering problems for Markov chains, Annals of Probability 16 (1988), 1215-1228; A. Chandra et al., The electrical resistance of a graph captures its commute and cover times, STOC 1989, 574-586
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R325
- Stable alias
- gct45-attempt-literature-and-state-space-audit
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
A route someone took, recorded so the next person can reuse it or avoid it.