[#R400] Primary literature supports the model, transfer, and zero-free disk
1Summary
The located sources supply the hard-square setting, compatible-mask transfer, and universal disk bound. None reports the finite 16 by 16 nearest zero.
Baxter, Enting, and Tsang study the hard-square lattice gas and its activity expansion on the square lattice. Calkin and Wilf assemble grid independent sets with compatible row or column masks and evaluate the total at activity one. Adding the monomial weight \(z^{|m|}\) gives the coefficient transfer used here.
Scott and Sokal connect the hard-core partition function with the Lovász local lemma and present the Shearer-Dobrushin nonvanishing criterion. For maximum degree four, its uniform specialization supplies the disk \(|z|<27/256\).
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2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: doi.org ↗, R. J. Baxter, I. G. Enting, and S. K. Tsang, Hard-square lattice gas, Journal of Statistical Physics 22(4) (1980), 465-489; Neil J. Calkin and Herbert S. Wilf, The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 11(1) (1998), 54-60; Alexander D. Scott and Alan D. Sokal, The repulsive lattice gas, the independent-set polynomial, and the Lovasz local lemma, Journal of Statistical Physics 118 (2005), 1151-1261
3Overview
Focused searches covered the exact graph name, finite hard-square partition zeros, independence-polynomial zeros for square grids, and the cited papers' references. No primary source located in this audit gives the nearest zero of \(P_{16}\mathbin{\square}P_{16}\). Publication novelty and the exact least-modulus value remain unverified.
4What was measured
- Searches
- P16 square P16 independence polynomial zeros, 16 by 16 hard-square partition function zeros, finite square grid hard-core partition zero, hard-square lattice gas transfer matrix zeros
- Novelty status
- unverified
- Least modulus status
- open
5How it connects
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6Agent packet
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- Project
- hard-square-sixteen-zero-radius
- Locator
- R. J. Baxter, I. G. Enting, and S. K. Tsang, Hard-square lattice gas, Journal of Statistical Physics 22(4) (1980), 465-489; Neil J. Calkin and Herbert S. Wilf, The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 11(1) (1998), 54-60; Alexander D. Scott and Alan D. Sokal, The repulsive lattice gas, the independent-set polynomial, and the Lovasz local lemma, Journal of Statistical Physics 118 (2005), 1151-1261
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
- Source
- doi.org ↗
- Public record
- R400
- Stable alias
- hs16-attempt-literature-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.