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R593Recorded attempt

Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit

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Authored summary

The audit located strong arithmetic and symmetry restrictions, a five-MOLS construction, and exact reformulations, while the existence question stayed open.

The record cites sources for its explanation. The outcome applies to this attempt's recorded scope.

Attempt outcome: completed

Recorded scope: No scope is recorded.

Originating problem: A projective plane of order 12

Recorded relationships: Existence at order 12 remains open

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Authored title
Primary literature and small-plane catalogue audit
Record type
attempt
Stored status
completed
Evidence grade
sourced
Linked research record IDs
R597

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The audit located strong arithmetic and symmetry restrictions, a five-MOLS construction, and exact reformulations, while the existence question stayed open.

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Recorded status

completed

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sourced

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2Authored explanation

The audit checked the 1949 Bruck-Ryser paper, the 1960 five-MOLS construction, the 2019 order-9 collineation exclusion, the 2023 order-4 exclusion, and the 2023 Hadamard equivalence. It also checked Eric Moorhouse's Projective Planes of Small Order catalogue, which describes itself as a current list of known small planes and includes every known plane below order 34 known to its maintainer. The table has no order-12 incidence record.

The catalogue states that its completeness guarantee ends at order 10. Its empty order-12 slot therefore serves as a database cross-check rather than a mathematical exclusion. The strongest global restriction found is the 2023 theorem that every collineation group has order 1, 2, or 3. The strongest explicit partial Latin-square object found remains a family of five MOLS. The complete family of 11 remains unconstructed.

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3Outcome

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Verification source: ericmoorhouse.org ↗, Eric Moorhouse, Projective Planes of Small Order, catalogue description and order table, accessed 2026-07-25; primary sources listed in metadata

4What was measured

Catalogue

urlhttps://ericmoorhouse.org/pub/planes/scope claimall known projective planes of order below 34 known to the maintainercompleteness claimproved complete only through order 10order 12 incidence record presentnolast revision shownNovember 2017

5How it connects

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