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The nearby literature counts and colors the triangles
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Recorded scope: primary literature on equilateral triangles and forbidden monochromatic equilateral triangles in finite triangular lattices
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}Originating problem: Largest equilateral-triangle-free subset of the fifteen-row triangular lattice
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The located primary papers verify the triangle count and study colorings, without giving the independence number of T_15.
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{ "kind": "family", "statement": "primary literature on equilateral triangles and forbidden monochromatic equilateral triangles in finite triangular lattices", "family": "finite triangular lattices T_n" }
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Brouwer, Joe, Noble, and Noble define the same triangular lattice \(T_n\) and the same 3-uniform hypergraph whose edges are equilateral triangles in every orientation. Their formula gives \[ \frac{n^4+2n^3-n^2-2n}{24}=\binom{n+2}{4} \] edges, hence 2,380 at \(n=15\). They determine or bound the minimum number of colors needed to avoid monochromatic equilateral triangles, including \(f(15)\leq5\). Their paper does not report maximum single color-class sizes or \(\alpha(T_{15})\).
Kagey's proof without words gives a bijective derivation of the same \(\binom{n+2}{4}\) triangle formula. Searches keyed to the finite triangular lattice, equilateral-triangle-free sets, and hypergraph independence found no primary source settling the 15-row independence number. The certified interval in this entry should therefore be treated as a fresh bounded computation, with novelty still unverified.
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Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Gaston A. Brouwer, Jonathan Joe, Abby A. Noble, and Matt Noble, Problems on the Triangular Lattice, arXiv:2405.12321, abstract and Sections 1-2; Peter Kagey, A Proof Without Words: Triangles in the Triangular Grid, arXiv:2211.00186
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