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[#R752] The maximum is between 35^16 and 6,876,227,375,063^2

claim. A principal submatrix of a skew conference matrix gives the lower endpoint, while the skew Ehlich-Wojtas bound and Pfaffian integrality give the upper endpoint.

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1Summary

Write \(D_{34}\) for the requested maximum. The certified bounds are \[ 5{,}070{,}942{,}774{,}902{,}496{,}337{,}890{,}625 =35^{16} \leq D_{34} \leq 6{,}876{,}227{,}375{,}063^2 =47{,}282{,}502{,}913{,}565{,}795{,}274{,}253{,}969. \] The lower endpoint is attained by the explicit order-34 matrix in `ssm34-artifact-gs36-principal-minor`. The upper endpoint follows for every matrix in the stated family. These sources and the computation do not determine equality at either endpoint, so the exact maximum remains open in this entry.

Reproduced evidence. Recorded scope: all 34 by 34 skew-symmetric matrices with zero diagonal and every off-diagonal entry in {-1,1}.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

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Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Klanderman, Montee, Piotrowski, Rice, and Shader, Theorems 5.4 and 5.5, combined with the order-36 construction of Goethals and Seidel and the exact replay below

3What was measured

Lower bound
5070942774902496337890625
Lower bound factorization
35^16
Upper bound
47282502913565795274253969
Upper pfaffian bound
6876227375063
Exact value status
open

4How it connects

Recorded for

5Agent packet

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6Provenance

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Project
skew-seidel-maxdet-34
Locator
Klanderman, Montee, Piotrowski, Rice, and Shader, Theorems 5.4 and 5.5, combined with the order-36 construction of Goethals and Seidel and the exact replay below
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R752
Stable alias
ssm34-claim-certified-interval
Projection
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