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R1501Recorded attempt

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The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every convex polyhedron becomes edge-unfoldable after a suitable affine transformation, and every nested three-prismatoid has a nonoverlapping edge unfolding; recent work also constructs highly overlapping edge unfoldings. Unresolved remainder: Prove a nonoverlapping spanning-tree edge unfolding exists for every original convex three-polytope, or exhibit one polytope for which every such unfolding overlaps.

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Attempt outcome: completed

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Originating problem: Dürer’s edge-unfolding problem

Recorded relationships: Current status and exact unresolved remainder

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Dated source and duplicate audit
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The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every convex polyhedron becomes edge-unfoldable after a suitable affine transformation, and every nested three-prismatoid has a nonoverlapping edge unfolding; recent work also constructs highly overlapping edge unfoldings. Unresolved remainder: Prove a nonoverlapping spanning-tree edge unfolding exists for every original convex three-polytope, or exhibit one polytope for which every such unfolding overlaps.

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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: - Dürer edge unfolding every convex polyhedron open - convex 3-polytope spanning tree nonoverlapping net - Dürer problem affine unfolding pseudo-edge counterexample

The exact target, equivalent terminology, and 2025-2026 status evidence were checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked result: Every convex polyhedron becomes edge-unfoldable after a suitable affine transformation, and every nested three-prismatoid has a nonoverlapping edge unfolding; recent work also constructs highly overlapping edge unfoldings. Unresolved remainder: Prove a nonoverlapping spanning-tree edge unfolding exists for every original convex three-polytope, or exhibit one polytope for which every such unfolding overlaps.

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3Outcome

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, M. Ghomi, “Affine unfoldings of convex polyhedra,” Geometry & Topology 18(5) (2014), 3055–3090. abstract and main theorem

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