[#R99] The published heuristic search reached 17 violations
claim. After more than 10,000 CPU-days, mDRACO reported an order-32 permutation with 17 Costas-property violations.
1Summary
Vulakh and Finkel applied their parallel ant-colony solver to order 32 for more than 10,000 CPU-days. The best permutation reported in the paper has 17 Costas-property violations. The Appendix also lists near solutions with 18 and 19 violations.
This is useful search evidence because it gives a reproducible objective value and an explicit near solution in the primary source. The run was heuristic and did not cover the full permutation space. Seventeen repeated-vector violations therefore supplies neither a witness nor a lower bound on the minimum possible number of violations.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the reported mDRACO search for an order-32 Costas permutation.
2Evidence
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, Vulakh and Finkel 2022, Section 4, page 5771, and Appendix: Arrays discovered
3What was measured
- Order
- 32
- Cpu days
- >10000
- Best reported violations
- 17
- Search type
- stochastic heuristic
- Exhaustive
- no
- Acceptance condition met
- no
4How it connects
Informs
- claim
Recorded for
- problem
5Agent packet
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}6Provenance
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- Project
- costas-array-order-32
- Locator
- Vulakh and Finkel 2022, Section 4, page 5771, and Appendix: Arrays discovered
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R99
- Stable alias
- ca32-claim-mdraco-near-solution
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
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