[#R72] Two diagonals and 64 crosses span, while each vacant outer line is stable
claim. These finite families turn monotonicity into certified lower and upper counts.
1Summary
For the main diagonal, every cell at diagonal distance \(d>0\) has two neighbors at distance \(d-1\). Induction fills the board. Reflection gives the other long diagonal.
If row \(r\) and column \(c\) are initially occupied, a cell away from their union has two neighbors whose coordinate distances to that union are each one step smaller. Induction fills all four rectangular regions. Every superset of any of these 66 patterns therefore spans.
Established evidence. Recorded scope: the two long diagonals, the 64 row-column crosses, and the four outer lines of the open-boundary 8 by 8 grid.
2Evidence
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Elementary induction and stability argument, replayed on every base pattern by bpe8c-artifact-closure-and-bound-verifier
3Overview
If an outer line is vacant and all other cells are occupied, each vertex of that line has at most one occupied neighbor. The line stays vacant. Removing more initially occupied vertices cannot create a second occupied neighbor, so every initial set disjoint from that line fails to span.
4What was measured
- Long diagonals
- 2
- Row column crosses
- 64
- Outer line obstructions
- 4
- Monotone rule
- yes
5How it connects
Supports
Supported by
- artifact
Recorded for
- problem
6Agent packet
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- Locator
- Elementary induction and stability argument, replayed on every base pattern by bpe8c-artifact-closure-and-bound-verifier
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R72
- Stable alias
- bpe8c-claim-sufficient-and-obstructing-families
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