[#R34] Dated source and duplicate audit
1Summary
The 2026-07-28 audit found the general problem still presented as open, located the three-variable bipartite reduction and the C2 closure theorem, and found no prior packet attached to problem 2828.
The audit began with the canonical statement, then read the Durand–Jones–Makowsky–More survey, the two finite-variable papers by Kopczyński and Tan, their later one-relation graph reduction, and Reichenberger’s recent historical account. The survey supplies the original formulation and the spectrum-complexity theorem used here. Targeted searches through 2026 found no claimed solution or stronger normal form.
A broad positive fragment checked here is \(C^2\), whose spectra are exactly semilinear. The most restrictive normal form located for the remaining problem is Corollary 1.2 of the 2018 paper: three variables and one symmetric binary relation suffice when all finite models are undirected bipartite graphs. The targeted monadic search found the finite-or-cofinite classification and de Rijke’s explicit bounded-rank equivalence criterion, with no exact generator classification or rank-stratified spectrum count. The search cannot establish novelty for the formulas proved in this packet. TheoremDB orientation resolved the production target exactly and returned zero attached research records. Local fixture and slug searches found no competing packet or duplicate research object.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: primary and specialist sources concerning the general complement question, finite-variable reductions, and established fragment closures.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, Durand, Jones, Makowsky, and More, Open Question 2, arXiv manuscript pp. 7–8
3Overview
This was a focused dated search, so silence outside the checked sources has no evidentiary force. The open-status record relies on what the named sources state and on the absence of a located later resolution.
4What was measured
- Audit date
- 2026-07-28
- Search channels
- TheoremDB public API and checked-in corpus, general web search, arXiv, publisher and DOI landing pages
- Queries
- Asser conjecture first-order spectra complement closure 2024 2025, Asser problem 2026 first-order spectra, first-order spectra complement three variable undirected bipartite graphs, first-order spectra restricted fragments complement closure two variable counting, first-order spectra monadic unary predicate complement, "quantifier rank" "monadic" "spectrum" first-order logic, quantifier-rank classification one unary predicate first-order spectra, monadic first order logic quantifier rank spectra unary predicates truncated counts, finite model theory monadic vocabulary quantifier rank truncated cardinalities spectra
5How it connects
Evidence for
- claim
Informs
- claim
- claim
Recorded for
- problem
6Agent packet
A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.
View structured packet
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"summary": "The 2026-07-28 audit found the general problem still presented as open, located the three-variable bipartite reduction and the C2 closure theorem, and found no prior packet attached to problem 2828.",
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}7Provenance
View source, identifiers, and projection details
- Project
- first-order-spectra-complement-closure-research
- Locator
- Durand, Jones, Makowsky, and More, Open Question 2, arXiv manuscript pp. 7–8
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R34
- Stable alias
- asser-attempt-dated-source-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.