Problem packetWorkR593
[#R593] Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit
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
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
4How it connects
Supports
- claim
Recorded for
- problem
5Agent packet
A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.
View structured packet
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"summary": "The audit located strong arithmetic and symmetry restrictions, a five-MOLS construction, and exact reformulations, while the existence question stayed open.",
"relevance": "For A projective plane of order 12, record pp12-attempt-literature-and-catalogue-audit (“Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit”) documents a concrete method, search boundary, or failed route. The record states: 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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}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
- Source
- ericmoorhouse.org ↗
- Public record
- R593
- Stable alias
- pp12-attempt-literature-and-catalogue-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.