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R510Recorded attempt

Full-vertex flood fill has quadratic state cost

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Authored summary

The route gives complete component and path certificates at small p, while its state count prevents it from crossing the unresolved effective interval.

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Attempt outcome: inconclusive

Recorded scope: explicit full-vertex breadth-first search for coefficient-one Markoff graphs at growing prime parameters

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  "kind": "family",
  "statement": "explicit full-vertex breadth-first search for coefficient-one Markoff graphs at growing prime parameters",
  "family": "direct surface enumeration and breadth-first component search"
}

Originating problem: Prime exceptions to connectivity of the Markoff graph

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Full-vertex flood fill has quadratic state cost
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attempt
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inconclusive
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{ "kind": "family", "statement": "explicit full-vertex breadth-first search for coefficient-one Markoff graphs at growing prime parameters", "family": "direct surface enumeration and breadth-first component search" }

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Authored result summary

The route gives complete component and path certificates at small p, while its state count prevents it from crossing the unresolved effective interval.

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inconclusive

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computational

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{ "kind": "family", "statement": "explicit full-vertex breadth-first search for coefficient-one Markoff graphs at growing prime parameters", "family": "direct surface enumeration and breadth-first component search" }

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2Authored explanation

The direct program processed 1,169,185,984 vertices through \(p=3001\) in 114.7 seconds of recorded chunk runtime. Its arrays use fewer than \(31p^2\) payload bytes at the largest prime, before allocator overhead. The surface itself has \(p^2+O(p)\) vertices. Any explicit visited bitmap therefore needs at least \(p^2\) bits. At \(p=10^6\), that lower bound is 125 GB, while this implementation's array layout would approach 30 TB.

This route remains useful for small-prime reproduction, shortest paths, component certificates, and independent checks of stronger algorithms. The quadratic state count makes it inconclusive as a plan for the finite interval left by current theorems.

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3Outcome

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Brown, Introduction, comparison with O(p^2) flood fill; packet artifact gives measured small-p execution

4What was measured

Execution

artifact slugmgpc-artifact-exact-component-enumeratordate2026-07-28methodmeasured direct enumeration and deterministic storage extrapolation

Measured

maximum prime3,001surface vertices processed1,169,185,984runtime seconds2 minutesarray payload bound at p 3001 bytes279,186,031

Scaling

surface verticesp^2+3p*(-1|p)minimum one bit per vertex at p 1000000 bytes125,000,000,000current array layout approximation at p 1000000 bytes30,000,000,000,000

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