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[#R796] The literature gives 32 as the planar record and 22 as the exact 17-point value

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1Summary

Kurz's primary paper supplies both ingredients used here; a 925-variable binary program would settle the remaining finite-grid gap.

Kurz studies \(S_{\square}(n)\), the largest number of squares spanned by \(n\) arbitrary planar points. Theorem 51 proves \(S_{\square}(17)=22\). Table 6 records the lower bounds 25, 28, and 32 for 18, 19, and 20 points. Appendix C lists point-set representatives. The paper describes the 20-point value as a lower bound, so it does not settle the present finite-grid maximum.

The same 32-square pattern fits inside \(\{0,\ldots,9\}^2\), as the executable record verifies. A focused search for the fixed-cardinality ten-grid problem found no paper giving an exact optimum or a grid-specific upper certificate.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: published results on squares spanned by small planar point sets, with a proposed exact optimization over the 825 square hyperedges of the ten grid.

2Outcome

Evidence package: source only

A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.

Verification source: epub.uni-bayreuth.de ↗, Sascha Kurz, Plane point sets with many squares or isosceles right triangles, Theorem 51, Table 6, and Appendix C

3Overview

A direct exact model uses one binary variable \(x_p\) for each of the 100 grid points and one binary variable \(y_s\) for each of the 825 grid squares. Impose \[ \sum_p x_p=20,\qquad y_s\leq x_p\quad(p\in s), \] and maximize \(\sum_s y_s\). Positivity of the objective forces \(y_s=1\) whenever all four vertices of \(s\) are selected. This model has 925 binary variables and 3,301 linear constraints. A solver proof log, checked independently against the 825-square list digest in this record, would close the interval.

4What was measured

Search date
2026-07-25
Exact fixed grid result found
no
Continuation
Solve the binary program with a proof-producing solver and verify its square-index map against the artifact digest.

Proposed binary program

point variables100square variables825binary variables total925cardinality constraints1square vertex constraints3,300linear constraints total3,301objectivemaximize sum of square variables

5How it connects

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6Agent packet

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7Provenance

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twenty-points-ten-grid-max-squares
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Sascha Kurz, Plane point sets with many squares or isosceles right triangles, Theorem 51, Table 6, and Appendix C
License
CC0-1.0
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TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R796
Stable alias
tptgms-attempt-literature-audit-and-exact-model
Projection
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