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OPEN as checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked neighboring result: Decidability is known through order five, for simple sequences through order nine, and for additional reversible or dominant-root subclasses. Exact unresolved remainder: A decision procedure for unrestricted order, already beyond the low-order frontier, remains open.

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Originating problem: Decidability of positivity for linear recurrence sequences

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The problem was checked as open on 2026-08-01.

The strongest neighboring result found in the cited sources is: Decidability is known through order five, for simple sequences through order nine, and for additional reversible or dominant-root subclasses.

The exact unresolved remainder is: A decision procedure for unrestricted order, already beyond the low-order frontier, remains open.

A complete resolution must meet the following acceptance conditions: - Give a terminating correct decision algorithm for arbitrary order. - Or prove undecidability through a computable reduction.

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, J. Ouaknine and J. Worrell, Positivity Problems for Low-Order Linear Recurrence Sequences, SODA 2014. main decidability theorems

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