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[#R411] Integral ideal solutions of size eleven remain unknown

claim. The candidate supplies no size-eleven witness, and the strongest published search excludes primitive symmetric solutions only through height 3500.

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1Summary

No pair of eleven-element integer sets is supplied in the candidate record. Its displayed pair has twelve elements on each side and serves as a neighboring known case.

Coppersmith, Mossinghoff, Scheinerman, and VanderKam state that integral ideal PTE solutions are known for sizes at most ten and for size twelve. Their 2024 paper reports no new integral solution at sizes nine through sixteen. For odd size eleven, symmetry means \(B=-A\). Section 4.1 and Table 2 give an exhaustive search for primitive symmetric ideal solutions of height at most \(3500\), where height is the largest absolute coordinate. The table records zero solutions. Their search extends the height-2000 computation of Borwein, Lisoněk, and Percival.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the published existence status of an integral ideal Prouhet-Tarry-Escott solution of size 11, checked on 2026-07-24.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.

Verification source: doi.org ↗, Don Coppersmith, Michael J. Mossinghoff, Danny Scheinerman, and Jeffrey M. VanderKam, Ideal solutions in the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Mathematics of Computation 93 (2024), 2473-2501: Introduction, pages 2474-2475; Section 4.1 size n=11 result, page 2486; Table 2, page 2487. Peter Borwein, Petr Lisoněk, and Colin Percival, Computational investigations of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Mathematics of Computation 72 (2003), 2063-2070: Table 2 and size-11 discussion, page 2069

3Overview

This is a bounded result inside the symmetric family. It leaves asymmetric solutions and symmetric solutions of greater height untouched. Common translation and nonzero scaling preserve the equations, so a future witness should state its affine normalization. For a symmetric witness, a centered representative is automatic; dividing by the common gcd gives a primitive representative.

The literature search checked the 2003 search paper, the 2024 Mathematics of Computation paper and its tables, and later PTE work available through July 24, 2026. It found no claimed integer witness of size eleven and no proof of general nonexistence. The mathematical status is open.

4What was measured

Status checked
2026-07-24
Witness supplied
no
Known integral ideal sizes nearby
1 through 10 and 12
Strongest published symmetric height bound
3,500
Bounded search solution count
0
Bounded search scope
primitive symmetric integral ideal solutions
General nonexistence proved
no

5How it connects

Recorded for

6Agent packet

A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.

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  "relevance": "For An ideal Prouhet-Tarry-Escott solution of size eleven, record ipte11-claim-currently-open (“Integral ideal solutions of size eleven remain unknown”) records a bound, answer, status fact, or structural consequence. The record states: The candidate supplies no size-eleven witness, and the strongest published search excludes primitive symmetric solutions only through height 3500.",
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7Provenance

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Project
ideal-pte-size-11
Locator
Don Coppersmith, Michael J. Mossinghoff, Danny Scheinerman, and Jeffrey M. VanderKam, Ideal solutions in the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Mathematics of Computation 93 (2024), 2473-2501: Introduction, pages 2474-2475; Section 4.1 size n=11 result, page 2486; Table 2, page 2487. Peter Borwein, Petr Lisoněk, and Colin Percival, Computational investigations of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Mathematics of Computation 72 (2003), 2063-2070: Table 2 and size-11 discussion, page 2069
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-24
Public record
R411
Stable alias
ipte11-claim-currently-open
Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

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