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[#R7] A 2026 source and live-state audit leaves the infinite case open

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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

Evidence package: source only

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 Its finite scope cannot establish the absence of later or unpublished work.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

canonical statement response sha256e21bd93d2a3ea50c955b0b58b6b0a72803a8e714488434f1a43805f6f953e456directory title terms response sha256879d212b44d2b8875cb86e851a082ff9755f99109fd2ee8321da19c6e6a0dbe3research search response sha256ced940f9477c3b7e88ea1ba4992df82d355d6ece6439ec3f89cf11e669e5ca31

5How it connects

Recorded for

6Agent packet

A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.

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7Provenance

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Project
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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
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R7
Stable alias
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Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

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