[#R7] A 2026 source and live-state audit leaves the infinite case open
1Summary
The audit resolved one canonical TheoremDB problem with no attached research records and found a February 2025 primary source explicitly calling the {0,1,2,3} case unknown.
The audit searched the live TheoremDB directory by exact title terms, object, parameter, and additive-cube aliases. It found one canonical target, problem 2826, and no attached research records. The exact slug search endpoint tokenized the query differently and returned zero, so the title-term result and canonical object were checked directly. No duplicate target or competing packet was found.
The literature pass started with Rao's 2015 paper, which asks the question and reports a finite word of about \(1.4\times10^5\) letters. Lietard and Rosenfeld's 2020 classification makes the arithmetic-progression class the sole four-letter exception and reports finite words above \(10^7\). Lietard's thesis raises the finite construction to exactly 70,880,000. The 2022 survey repeats the open exception. Andrade and Mol explicitly call the case unknown in arXiv:2408.15390v2, revised February 2025. Popoli, Shallit, and Stipulanti address neighboring additive-complexity and Walnut questions.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the named live TheoremDB records and primary sources checked for the exact {0,1,2,3} additive-cube problem on 2026-07-28.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Audit completed 2026-07-28 UTC; latest explicit status in Andrade and Mol, arXiv:2408.15390v2, Introduction, PDF page 2
3Overview
Exact-title, exact-alphabet, finite-length, morphism, citation, arXiv, DOI, and author-page searches were run through 2026-07-28. The result is a dated search report. Its finite scope cannot establish the absence of later or unpublished work.
4What was measured
- Search date
- 2026-07-28
- Canonical problem id
- tdbc1:1bbaa4ef89c2d7acd7b8186d0c93cbca28f7f36ab289bcb498494e29d5cdc9ee
- Canonical revision id
- tdbcr1:9c23bb2897c9cd765d5f26b6213837dac0cda79ca666bc2bb4e75704bb17cf4c
- Canonical statement hash
- 3aad3fd5e3e59a267a9f6c59fc776bd42c809a7b4e5965bbb4b5efe25e95d5ea
- Canonical resolution state
- open
- Canonical publication state
- published
- Canonical problem number
- 2,826
- Live research records
- 0
Live response digests
5How it connects
Reports
- 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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}7Provenance
View source, identifiers, and projection details
- Project
- additive-cube-four-term-progression-alphabet-research
- Locator
- Audit completed 2026-07-28 UTC; latest explicit status in Andrade and Mol, arXiv:2408.15390v2, Introduction, PDF page 2
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Source
- arxiv.org ↗
- Public record
- R7
- Stable alias
- ac0123-attempt-dated-source-and-live-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.