T-249: Daniel reports a Lean kernel proof that , the bound T-049 holds
V0 C0 Formalization recorded
Daniel reports a Lean 4 kernel proof that = 3.9686155…, a formalization of T-049, which this record holds at V3/C3 on a replay of his arrangement sweep and its own interval coverage of the same certificate. Its theorem, SquarePacking.s12_ge_15680_3951 : (15680/3951 : ℝ) ≤ minSide 12, says that no square of side below 15680/3951 holds 12 closed unit squares, each translated and rotated, with pairwise disjoint interiors.
The proof applies the generic BoxTree verifier, proved sound once, to T-049's certificate, certificates/s12_lower_3.9686.txt: 1,736 D4-invariant points of total weight 11.9738036 < 12, as 320 generated part files and a covering theorem, cov_root, which lean/scripts/gen_data.sh S12H writes and the repository does not store. The source's LADDER.md reports the axioms propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound, no sorry and no native_decide, and a build of 6 h 31 min on 2 cores, 7.3 CPU-hours, at most 30.6 GB resident. Nothing here has built it.
Daniel, square-packing, first committed on 28 September 2026 and retained here in the 7 October evand packet. The repository's CREDITS.md says its work was produced by Claude (Anthropic) under human direction.
Significance, composition and next rung
- Significance
- A proof-assistant route to a bound T-049 holds on two complete methods, by the same certificate checked in Lean's kernel: a citable detail that changes no theorem, as T-235's is.
- Composition
- One cited entry, the source's report (E-n012-evand-s12h-lean-report), which claims the lower bound in Lean. T-049's replays are not cited: they are T-049's evidence, and a kernel check of the same certificate is what this entry adds. No build is retained here, so V0; no review has read it, so C0.
- Next rung
- C1 needs the stage 4 mathematical review of s12_ge_15680_3951, BoxTree's soundness and the generator, read from the retained packet. V3 and C3 need a build here or by a third party retained here, from the retained source with its generated parts and the axiom receipt (think-yzl3): about 8 CPU-hours and 31 GB of memory, under the owner's 40 CPU-hour item cap but above this host, and #535 asks the owner to approve or decline it. Rung 5 needs a human expert's review of the formalization beside it.
- Unfinished confirmations
- C1 (think-oyd4): the stage 4 mathematical review of s12_ge_15680_3951, the BoxTree verifier's soundness lemma le_minSide and gen_boxtree.py, read from the retained packet. Not priced.
C3 (think-yzl3): a build of S12HLower from the retained source with the 320 parts gen_data.sh S12H writes, one part at a time, with the axiom receipt, here or by a third party whose build is retained here. About 8 CPU-hours (priced 2026-10-26). - Novelty
- previously-published Present in an identified source
The case
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-095 and T-245 (reported)
2026-08-25 published T-049
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed superseded by T-095 and T-245 (reported)
Daniel after Burns, Massaccesi · evand square-packing 2026 · packet · source 1 · source 2 · review 1 · review 2 · register
2026-09-04 established T-017
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed superseded by T-095 and T-245 (reported)
Levy after Burns, Massaccesi · register
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
2026-09-28 published T-249 this result
Daniel reports a Lean kernel proof that , the bound T-049 holds
V0 C0 Formalization recorded
Daniel after Burns, Massaccesi · Daniel S12H Lean 2026-09-28 · packet · source · 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-095 and T-245 (reported)
Karakuş · Karakuş 2026 · source · register
2026-10-02 published T-078
, Daniel's certificate rescaled by
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed superseded by T-095 and T-245 (reported)
Ryu after Daniel · squarepacker s12 2026 · packet · packet · source 1 · source 2 · review 1 · review 2 · register
2026-10-02 established T-079
, Daniel's points re-weighted
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed superseded by T-095 and T-245 (reported)
2026-10-05 published T-095
, Daniel's points dilated and re-weighted
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed
Ryu after Daniel, Levy · squarepacker s12 2026-10-05 · packet · packet · source 1 · source 2 · review 1 · review 2 · register
2026-10-07 published T-124
Reported non-strict local minima for 178 source configurations
V0 C0 Restricted optimality recorded
Daniel after Couzo · Daniel exact and local reports 2026 · packet · register
2026-10-12 published T-261
Reported grade-C local minima for 233 source configurations of field degree at most 4
V3 C1 Restricted optimality incomplete
Daniel after Schadt, Ellsworth, Levy · Daniel exact and local reports 2026-10-12 · packet · packet · register
2026-10-16 published T-245
Jatloe reports a Lean proof that the 4 × 3 grid is optimal,
V0 C0 Optimality recorded
jatloe, Gurevitch, ctjlewis, Ahmed · Jatloe n12 Lean 2026-10-16 · packet · source · review · register
Links
- On this site
- Case record, · Frontier row, · T-249 in the results table
On GitHub, at main
- Register
- T-249 in
results.yaml, line 35738 - Evidence
E-n012-evand-s12h-lean-report- Proofs and certificates
- certificate
S12HLower.lean· proofS12HLower.lean - Sources
- Daniel S12H Lean 2026-09-28
- Source packet
resources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/README.md- Artifacts
6 artifacts and controls
resources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/README.mdresources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/source/s12/lean/Sqpack/S12HLower.leanresources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/source/s12/lean/Sqpack/BoxTree.leanresources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/source/s12/lean/LADDER.mdresources/web/evand-exact-and-local-reports-2026-10-07/receipts/s12h-lean-closure.jsondevtools/lean_closure.py- Case file
frontier/n-012.md(verified lower, verified upper, reported lower, reported upper)