[#R796] The literature gives 32 as the planar record and 22 as the exact 17-point value
1Summary
Kurz's primary paper supplies both ingredients used here; a 925-variable binary program would settle the remaining finite-grid gap.
Kurz studies \(S_{\square}(n)\), the largest number of squares spanned by \(n\) arbitrary planar points. Theorem 51 proves \(S_{\square}(17)=22\). Table 6 records the lower bounds 25, 28, and 32 for 18, 19, and 20 points. Appendix C lists point-set representatives. The paper describes the 20-point value as a lower bound, so it does not settle the present finite-grid maximum.
The same 32-square pattern fits inside \(\{0,\ldots,9\}^2\), as the executable record verifies. A focused search for the fixed-cardinality ten-grid problem found no paper giving an exact optimum or a grid-specific upper certificate.
Supported evidence. Recorded scope: published results on squares spanned by small planar point sets, with a proposed exact optimization over the 825 square hyperedges of the ten grid.
2Outcome
A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.
Verification source: epub.uni-bayreuth.de ↗, Sascha Kurz, Plane point sets with many squares or isosceles right triangles, Theorem 51, Table 6, and Appendix C
3Overview
A direct exact model uses one binary variable \(x_p\) for each of the 100 grid points and one binary variable \(y_s\) for each of the 825 grid squares. Impose \[ \sum_p x_p=20,\qquad y_s\leq x_p\quad(p\in s), \] and maximize \(\sum_s y_s\). Positivity of the objective forces \(y_s=1\) whenever all four vertices of \(s\) are selected. This model has 925 binary variables and 3,301 linear constraints. A solver proof log, checked independently against the 825-square list digest in this record, would close the interval.
4What was measured
- Search date
- 2026-07-25
- Exact fixed grid result found
- no
- Continuation
- Solve the binary program with a proof-producing solver and verify its square-index map against the artifact digest.
Proposed binary program
5How it connects
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6Agent packet
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- twenty-points-ten-grid-max-squares
- Locator
- Sascha Kurz, Plane point sets with many squares or isosceles right triangles, Theorem 51, Table 6, and Appendix C
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Contributors
- TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
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