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[#R325] Literature and finite-state audit

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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

Replay package: source only

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

Recorded for

5Agent packet

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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
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.

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