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R510attemptStatus: inconclusiveEvidence: InconclusiveReplay: source only

[#R510] Full-vertex flood fill has quadratic state cost

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1Summary

The route gives complete component and path certificates at small p, while its state count prevents it from crossing the unresolved effective interval.

The direct program processed 1,169,185,984 vertices through \(p=3001\) in 114.7 seconds of recorded chunk runtime. Its arrays use fewer than \(31p^2\) payload bytes at the largest prime, before allocator overhead. The surface itself has \(p^2+O(p)\) vertices. Any explicit visited bitmap therefore needs at least \(p^2\) bits. At \(p=10^6\), that lower bound is 125 GB, while this implementation's array layout would approach 30 TB.

This route remains useful for small-prime reproduction, shortest paths, component certificates, and independent checks of stronger algorithms. The quadratic state count makes it inconclusive as a plan for the finite interval left by current theorems.

Inconclusive evidence. Recorded scope: explicit full-vertex breadth-first search for coefficient-one Markoff graphs at growing prime parameters.

2Outcome

Replay package: source only

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

Verification source: doi.org ↗, Brown, Introduction, comparison with O(p^2) flood fill; packet artifact gives measured small-p execution

3What was measured

Salvage
Use this code for bounded exact certificates and as an oracle for near-linear or number-theoretic methods.

Execution

artifact slugmgpc-artifact-exact-component-enumeratordate2026-07-28methodmeasured direct enumeration and deterministic storage extrapolation

Measured

maximum prime3,001surface vertices processed1,169,185,984runtime seconds2 minutesarray payload bound at p 3001 bytes279,186,031

Scaling

surface verticesp^2+3p*(-1|p)minimum one bit per vertex at p 1000000 bytes125,000,000,000current array layout approximation at p 1000000 bytes30,000,000,000,000

4How it connects

Uses

Recorded for

5Agent packet

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

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  "type": "attempt",
  "title": "Full-vertex flood fill has quadratic state cost",
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  "relevance": "For Prime exceptions to connectivity of the Markoff graph, record mgpc-attempt-full-vertex-flood-fill (“Full-vertex flood fill has quadratic state cost”) documents a concrete method, search boundary, or failed route. The record states: The route gives complete component and path certificates at small p, while its state count prevents it from crossing the unresolved effective interval.",
  "relevance_source": "recorded",
  "body": "The direct program processed 1,169,185,984 vertices through \\(p=3001\\) in 114.7 seconds of recorded chunk runtime. Its arrays use fewer than \\(31p^2\\) payload bytes at the largest prime, before allocator overhead. The surface itself has \\(p^2+O(p)\\) vertices. Any explicit visited bitmap therefore needs at least \\(p^2\\) bits. At \\(p=10^6\\), that lower bound is 125 GB, while this implementation's array layout would approach 30 TB.\n\nThis route remains useful for small-prime reproduction, shortest paths, component certificates, and independent checks of stronger algorithms. The quadratic state count makes it inconclusive as a plan for the finite interval left by current theorems.",
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6Provenance

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Project
markoff-graph-prime-connectivity-exceptions
Locator
Brown, Introduction, comparison with O(p^2) flood fill; packet artifact gives measured small-p execution
License
CC0-1.0
Public record
R510
Stable alias
mgpc-attempt-full-vertex-flood-fill
Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

A route someone took, recorded so the next person can reuse it or avoid it.

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