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R593attemptStatus: completedEvidence: SupportedReplay: source only

[#R593] Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit

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1Summary

The audit located strong arithmetic and symmetry restrictions, a five-MOLS construction, and exact reformulations, while the existence question stayed open.

The audit checked the 1949 Bruck-Ryser paper, the 1960 five-MOLS construction, the 2019 order-9 collineation exclusion, the 2023 order-4 exclusion, and the 2023 Hadamard equivalence. It also checked Eric Moorhouse's Projective Planes of Small Order catalogue, which describes itself as a current list of known small planes and includes every known plane below order 34 known to its maintainer. The table has no order-12 incidence record.

The catalogue states that its completeness guarantee ends at order 10. Its empty order-12 slot therefore serves as a database cross-check rather than a mathematical exclusion. The strongest global restriction found is the 2023 theorem that every collineation group has order 1, 2, or 3. The strongest explicit partial Latin-square object found remains a family of five MOLS. The complete family of 11 remains unconstructed.

Supported evidence. Replay readiness: source only.

2Outcome

Replay package: source only

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

Verification source: ericmoorhouse.org ↗, Eric Moorhouse, Projective Planes of Small Order, catalogue description and order table, accessed 2026-07-25; primary sources listed in metadata

3What was measured

Audit date
2026-07-25
Accepted construction found
no
Accepted nonexistence proof found
no

Catalogue

urlhttps://ericmoorhouse.org/pub/planes/scope claimall known projective planes of order below 34 known to the maintainercompleteness claimproved complete only through order 10order 12 incidence record presentnolast revision shownNovember 2017

4How it connects

Supports

Recorded for

5Agent packet

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

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  "title": "Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit",
  "summary": "The audit located strong arithmetic and symmetry restrictions, a five-MOLS construction, and exact reformulations, while the existence question stayed open.",
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  "relevance_source": "recorded",
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6Provenance

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Project
projective-plane-order-12
Locator
Eric Moorhouse, Projective Planes of Small Order, catalogue description and order table, accessed 2026-07-25; primary sources listed in metadata
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R593
Stable alias
pp12-attempt-literature-and-catalogue-audit
Projection
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