[#R1471] 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 planar thrackle satisfies m ≤ 1.393(n-1). The conjectured coefficient 1 is proved for straight-line thrackles and several other restricted drawing classes. Unresolved remainder: Reduce the general coefficient to 1, or construct a planar thrackle with more edges than vertices. A recent higher-genus counterexample concerns a different conjecture and explicitly leaves the planar target open. TheoremDB corpus searches for thrackle 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: - Conway thrackle conjecture open 2026 - Conway thrackle best known bound 1.393 - thrackle straight line conjecture theorem
Supported evidence. Replay readiness: source only.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, C. Hernández-Vélez, J. Kynčl, and G. Salazar, Thrackles on nonplanar surfaces, arXiv:2506.11808, version dated March 22, 2026. Abstract and Introduction, especially the current planar status paragraph
3Overview
The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every planar thrackle satisfies m ≤ 1.393(n-1). The conjectured coefficient 1 is proved for straight-line thrackles and several other restricted drawing classes. Unresolved remainder: Reduce the general coefficient to 1, or construct a planar thrackle with more edges than vertices. A recent higher-genus counterexample concerns a different conjecture and explicitly leaves the planar target open. TheoremDB corpus searches for thrackle returned no duplicate target.
4How it connects
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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 planar thrackle satisfies m ≤ 1.393(n-1). The conjectured coefficient 1 is proved for straight-line thrackles and several other restricted drawing classes. Unresolved remainder: Reduce the general coefficient to 1, or construct a planar thrackle with more edges than vertices. A recent higher-genus counterexample concerns a different conjecture and explicitly leaves the planar target open. TheoremDB corpus searches for thrackle returned no duplicate target.",
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}6Provenance
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- Project
- conway-thrackle-conjecture-release-300-source-review
- Locator
- C. Hernández-Vélez, J. Kynčl, and G. Salazar, Thrackles on nonplanar surfaces, arXiv:2506.11808, version dated March 22, 2026. Abstract and Introduction, especially the current planar status paragraph
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB maintainers
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R1471
- Stable alias
- conway-thrackle-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.