T-206: Mixed rectangle-measure lower bound verified, on the 201-direction net
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed
A rectangle measure of wand125/square-packing, published on 16 October 2026 and reported in jlevy/squares#446, proves = 9.4225.
The certificate, mixed_n84_L94225, is a density of 815 uniform rectangles in D4 orbits, 6464 distinct rectangles after expansion, and no point or segment, of total mass 8399999/100000 < 84. Its declared net has 201 half-angle tangents of step 83/40000 at core side 9977/10000. The strict core extent 399908091/400000000 < 1 and the last tangent 83/200, past tan(pi/8), supply the reviewed net-and-shrink implication.
The retained maintained sqverify-fast capture verifies all 201 directions at threshold one, under the qualified Mac release build of Rust 1.98.0. Its whole-net controls record 201 coverage refusals and no verified mutant direction, and the near-threshold mutant is refused. The mathematical review accepts the implication and independently recomputed the saved-point captures. The outer capture, check and control commands all have observed exit 0.
This raises the verified and reported lower lanes from 9411/1000 to 3769/400. The bound is confirmed by a re-implementation sharing components with the producer's checker, sqverify-proof-net, which is Hosono's adaptation of this repository's sqverify_fast crate: the two share the crate apart from their declared-net readers. The exact audits check premises and saved poses, not coverage between poses; no independent full implementation, second method, proof-assistant check or optimality theorem is claimed.
wand125 after Tokoharu and Levy, square-packing. The source says parts of the work were produced with AI assistance under human direction.
Significance, composition and next rung
- Significance
- The strongest verified and reported lower bound on record at , 23/2000 above the prior lanes, by the certificate kind and standard net of T-082, T-090 and T-091, with no new technique, at S3 as T-176 to T-178 and T-216 are.
- Composition
- One source certificate and one complete maintained native replay, C3. The replay shares components with the producer's checker, Hosono's adaptation of this repository's sqverify_fast crate, apart from the declared-net readers. The separate exact premise and saved-point audits the case record cites supply no universal decision or higher rung.
- Next rung
- V4 and C4 need the additional qualifying adversarial AI review and the explicit human oversight the rung rules require. An independent full implementation would add implementation diversity; premise and saved-point checks do not supply it.
- Novelty
- previously-published Present in an identified source
The case
Proven
- exact
Citation record n-084
lowerHosono after Tokoharu and Levy 2026, GitHub (confirmed T-206)
upperXu et al., GitHub (confirmed T-174)
Open
- optimality
The case record
Results on the case
13 results in the register on , oldest first, each with what it established and how it stands now.
2005 published T-007
for
V0 C1 Lower bound incomplete on this case, superseded by T-206
2026-09-04 published T-085
Nagamochi 2005, Lemma 1 is false for every container with and
V3 C3 Correction confirmed
Karakuş; Vlasenko · Karakuş 2026 · chelokot Nagamochi counterexample 2026 · packet · register
2026-09-29 published T-058
Rectangle-certificate ceiling
α·UB(n)proved for ..100;B·UB(n)on 64 grid rowsV3 C3 Method limit confirmed
Hosono after Tokoharu, Daniel · wand125 tools 2026 · packet · register
2026-09-29 published T-083
for every nonsquare
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-206
Karakuş · Karakuş 2026 · source · register
2026-10-02 published T-071
Mixed rectangle-measure lower bounds replayed at
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed superseded by T-206
Hosono after Tokoharu, Levy, Stromquist, Nagamochi, Burns, Massaccesi · wand125 mixed bounds 2026-10-02 · packet · source · review · register
2026-10-04 published T-090
Mixed rectangle-measure lower bounds verified at 17 counts in
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-206
Hosono after Tokoharu, Levy, Stromquist, Nagamochi, Burns, Massaccesi · wand125 mixed bounds 2026-10-04 · packet · source · review · register
2026-10-05 published T-094
Mixed rectangle-measure lower bounds verified at and
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-206
Hosono after Tokoharu, Levy, Stromquist, Nagamochi, Burns, Massaccesi · wand125 mixed bounds 2026-10-05 · packet · source · review · register
2026-10-08 published T-125
Complete rational construction reports at 25 counts
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-174
2026-10-08 published T-130
Five follow-up rational refinements from Couzo
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-174
Couzo after Xu, Daniel, Ellsworth, Levy · Couzo follow-up refinements 2026-10-08 · packet · register
2026-10-09 published T-138
Exact witnesses at Mishapolk's printed ceilings, the smallest known at 103 and 258 when registered
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-174
Polkovskyi after Stenlund, Friedman, Ellsworth, Chaoweeraprasit, Couzo, Xu, Levy · Mishapolk decimal poses 2026-10-09 · packet · register
2026-10-13 published T-174
Tighter certificates at 68 counts from PingYou Ltd, of others' packings and its own
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed
PingYou Ltd after Friedman, Ellsworth, Daniel, Xu, Barnett, Couzo, Ostashev, Chaoweeraprasit, Gupta, Fang, Polkovskyi, Levy · PingYou PR 574 certificates 2026-10-13 · packet · register
2026-10-13 published T-180
Closed-form lower bound for every non-square , reported
V0 C1 Lower bound reviewed on this case, superseded by T-206
Hosono · wand125 closed form 2026-10-14 · packet · packet · register
2026-10-16 published T-206 this result
Mixed rectangle-measure lower bound verified, on the 201-direction net
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed
Hosono after Tokoharu and Levy · wand125 fine-net lower bounds 2026-10-16 · packet · source · review · register
Links
- On this site
- Case record, · Frontier row, · T-206 in the results table
On GitHub, at main
- Register
- T-206 in
results.yaml, line 28607 - Evidence
E-wand125-fine-net-n84-94225-report·E-wand125-fine-net-n84-94225-sqverify-fast-replay- Proofs and certificates
- certificate
candidate.json.gz· proofSOUNDNESS.md· auditreview-2026-10-19-n84-n85-fine-net-mathematics.md - Sources
- wand125 fine-net lower bounds 2026-10-16 (its own site, retained copy)
- Source packet
resources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/README.md- Artifacts
16 artifacts and controls
resources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/README.mdresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/acquisition/sources.jsonresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/acquisition/release-assets.jsonresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/release/certificates/mixed_n84_L94225/candidate.json.gzresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/release/certificates/mixed_n84_L94225/check2/receipt.jsonresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/receipts/premises-n84.jsondevtools/fine_net_followup.pydocs/project/reviews/review-2026-10-19-n84-n85-fine-net-mathematics.mddocs/project/reviews/review-2026-10-19-fine-net-mac-arithmetic.mdresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/review-mac/README.mdresources/web/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/review-mac/n84-n85-certificate-math/n84-audit-result.json.gzbenchmarks/measure-verifier/census-mixed/census.jsonbenchmarks/measure-verifier/census-mixed/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/mixed_n84_L94225.jsonl.gzbenchmarks/measure-verifier/census-mixed/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/mixed_n84_L94225.execution.jsonbenchmarks/measure-verifier/census-mixed/wand125-fine-net-lower-bounds-2026-10-16/mixed_n84_L94225.control.jsontests/test_sqverify_fast_census.py- Case file
frontier/n-084.md(verified lower, verified upper, reported lower, reported upper)