[#R1384] Dated source and duplicate audit
1Summary
The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every n-vertex Barnette graph has a subhamiltonian cycle containing at least 5n/6 edges. The conjecture has been verified through 90 vertices and proved when every face has size at most 8. Unresolved remainder: Prove that every Barnette graph has a spanning cycle, or exhibit a cubic, 3-connected, bipartite planar graph without one. TheoremDB corpus searches for Barnette returned no duplicate target.
The audit ran on 2026-08-01 across the cited primary literature and problem collections, Crossref, arXiv, and stable publisher records, TheoremDB published, prospecting, packet, formal, and retired corpus. It checked the exact statement, its named or normalized variants, recent status evidence, and the controlled TheoremDB corpus.
Queries included: - Barnette conjecture cubic bipartite planar graph Hamiltonian open - Barnette graph face size 8 Hamiltonian - Barnette graphs verified 90 vertices
Supported evidence. Replay readiness: source only.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, M. A. Bekos, M. Kaufmann, and M. Pfister, Approximating Barnette’s Conjecture, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, LIPIcs 357, Article 6, pp. 6:1-6:7 (2025). Abstract, Introduction, Theorem 1, and Section 5
3Overview
The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every n-vertex Barnette graph has a subhamiltonian cycle containing at least 5n/6 edges. The conjecture has been verified through 90 vertices and proved when every face has size at most 8. Unresolved remainder: Prove that every Barnette graph has a spanning cycle, or exhibit a cubic, 3-connected, bipartite planar graph without one. TheoremDB corpus searches for Barnette returned no duplicate target.
4How it connects
Evidence for
- claim
Recorded for
- problem
5Agent packet
A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.
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"summary": "The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every n-vertex Barnette graph has a subhamiltonian cycle containing at least 5n/6 edges. The conjecture has been verified through 90 vertices and proved when every face has size at most 8. Unresolved remainder: Prove that every Barnette graph has a spanning cycle, or exhibit a cubic, 3-connected, bipartite planar graph without one. TheoremDB corpus searches for Barnette returned no duplicate target.",
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}6Provenance
View source, identifiers, and projection details
- Project
- barnette-conjecture-release-300-source-review
- Locator
- M. A. Bekos, M. Kaufmann, and M. Pfister, Approximating Barnette’s Conjecture, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, LIPIcs 357, Article 6, pp. 6:1-6:7 (2025). Abstract, Introduction, Theorem 1, and Section 5
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB maintainers
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R1384
- Stable alias
- barnette-conjecture-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.