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R811attemptStatus: completedEvidence: SupportedReplay: source only

[#R811] Primary-source and duplicate audit through 2026-07-28

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1Summary

The audit resolved the published TheoremDB target, found no attached research packet or duplicate local target, and retained the question as open after checking the 1978 source, the tight 1986 unary result and erratum, STACS 2026, and the 2026-07-06 liveness revision.

The production target resolved exactly to problem 2832 with stable ID `tdbc1:15d7ea688e5e5a81d7f338c721357dd630ec5546b578a01981bb896e4d9f5909`. Its digest reported an open, published, actionable problem and no attached research records. Repository searches found the matching v6 candidate and no packet with the same `dataset.problem_ref`.

The source audit read Sakoda and Sipser's 1978 paper, Guillon, Prigioniero, and Taheri's STACS 2026 paper, and Adeogun and Kapoutsis's arXiv v2 dated 2026-07-06. A later-work check also inspected Chrobak's 1986 Theorems 6.2 and 6.3 and paired the article with its 2003 erratum. That check established that the quadratic fixed-alphabet exponent was already known for unary 1NFAs.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the fixed-alphabet 2NFA-to-2DFA determinization target and directly neighboring one-way-liveness results.

2Outcome

Evidence package: source only

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

Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Adeogun and Kapoutsis, Introduction and Conclusion. Full audit details and exact search digests are recorded in metadata.

3Overview

Two arXiv API searches were run: `all:Sakoda AND all:Sipser`, and `all:"two-way" AND all:nondeterministic AND all:deterministic AND cat:cs.FL`, both sorted by submission date with up to 100 results. The second query returned 26 records. Its newest relevant determinization paper was the July revision by Adeogun and Kapoutsis. The newer June submission concerned two-dimensional automata and a different problem. Exact-title and phrase searches found no checked primary source claiming a polynomial 2DFA construction or a superpolynomial fixed-alphabet lower bound.

This is a dated search report. Index coverage and terminology can omit relevant work, so the audit does not prove that no later result exists.

4What was measured

Checked on
2026-07-28
Canonical problem id
tdbc1:15d7ea688e5e5a81d7f338c721357dd630ec5546b578a01981bb896e4d9f5909
Canonical problem number
2,832
Canonical statement hash
e7c7c5fd6cbf9890c14f67ad85838332c43feb6d1fbf536be6ce55044ea4e6d9
Orient impression id
tdbri2:582496e6025bdd968a7cf327053f4774ccaf8007b2c35002097e934204d0b064
Orient response sha256
f7d333776b1ea406002f3791e31a55576c5ed90982eaa4a20e02826e78b0856e
Initial check plan impression id
tdbri2:b5fa933737858fa727205cc881b3483a5d55be5545b79f8aa4c544c3dc1abe9e
Initial check plan response sha256
5f25d6b2f7a935b84a1383b67714fe3cec28cf828042d722498528906f25ef3c
Refined check plan impression id
tdbri2:d5cfef3f741a14edf95e87f19f735cc94e53e9fb28479b872ce4e5b300eaef7d
Refined check plan response sha256
d6be08297d00abbe457fbc8df51b1c0525b78bfd4bd3d266184a6910d0f37cc0
Binary check plan impression id
tdbri2:0e474f8059477cff87bdf0097434780c2eea4aa9a473142fdb88fa1fe90716bc
Binary check plan response sha256
559710a6f96edc1850f9f85617a7bdcf6b0e200cad1e59801e55b047321f0c32
Production digest sha256
7b518c0f000e77b79774a0d58842e0a589917d40da0ab282f5b7b6456ac80ff2
Candidate v6 sha256
aa137a86d6117430ad18a226c294ae56362152534ea9c11247ccd5ac358cd305
Duplicate result
one exact published target, zero attached production research records, and no existing local packet

Checked source hashes

sakoda sipser 1978 pdf sha256da737463083379e5450e8e7965972c943f4214859a7445094bb5449f68c801b6guillon prigioniero taheri stacs 2026 pdf sha256840deb7c0d0ce965b4ff1fc8a6b80fdd5d8d81c040e5a10488e1d44686be73e8adeogun kapoutsis arxiv v2 pdf sha256d107f0c5dd108fb8a44353e1b113e99ca76d985e6cf8eca2ae6deab445ae8ab4

Prior setup excluded from credit

known active minutes4exact timestamps availablenoreasonEarlier setup was preserved as context after reassignment. It is excluded from the credited ledger because exact endpoints were unavailable.

5How it connects

Recorded for

6Agent packet

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

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  "relevance_source": "recorded",
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7Provenance

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Project
two-way-nfa-polynomial-determinization-research
Locator
Adeogun and Kapoutsis, Introduction and Conclusion. Full audit details and exact search digests are recorded in metadata.
License
CC0-1.0
Public record
R811
Stable alias
twnfa-attempt-primary-source-audit-2026-07-28
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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