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Current status and exact unresolved remainder

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OPEN as checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked neighboring result: Exact capacity is known for degraded and other subclasses; broad inner and outer bounds remain separated in general. Exact unresolved remainder: No universal matching computable characterization was located.

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Originating problem: Capacity of the general discrete memoryless relay channel

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Current status and exact unresolved remainder
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The problem was checked as open on 2026-08-01.

The strongest neighboring result found in the cited sources is: Exact capacity is known for degraded and other subclasses; broad inner and outer bounds remain separated in general.

The exact unresolved remainder is: No universal matching computable characterization was located.

A complete resolution must meet the following acceptance conditions: - Give a finite computable expression equal to operational capacity for every finite relay channel. - Or prove a precise impossibility of the requested class of expressions and provide an exact alternative usable for every channel.

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, T. Cover and A. El Gamal, Capacity theorems for the relay channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 25 (1979). decode-forward, compress-forward, cut-set results

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