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Published November 9, 2026 | Version v21

Verification of the Markov Uniqueness Conjecture for the First One Trillion Markov Values: Meridians on the Markov Surface and Farey Addresses

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This release verifies Frobenius's Markov uniqueness conjecture for the first one trillion Markov values in numerical order, that is, for every Markov number z ≤ M(1228920/1426807), which has 1,021,609 digits. Here M(p/q) denotes the Markov value at the ordinary Farey address p/q, with M(1/2) = 5; the numerical ordering counts 1 first. The exact cutoff is provided as data/ordinal_1000000000000.txt in the selected-values supplement: download the selected-values supplement. It includes the revised manuscript, complete reproducible source and supplements, final verifier report and machine-readable evidence, portable recovery archive, and six selected full decimal expansions.

Meridian analysis—especially helm scales and degree-dependent logarithmic spacing—guided the organization of comparisons into magnitude bands. The production verifier implements this plan using reduced Farey addresses, certified positive-matrix logarithmic bounds on 162 cones, scalar Vieta residues modulo 2^64, band sorting and exact resolution. The algorithm can be formulated without Meridian terminology; its finite numerical-prefix certificate does not rely on Meridian collision-exclusion theorems. No controlled ablation establishes a speedup specifically from the coordinate system.

Completed computation. The combined certificate compares 1,101,388,071,945 configurations: 550,693,634,649 inherited and 550,694,437,296 newly computed. Its inner region contains 1,000,000,419,685 configurations. Original screening produced 1,107,352,458,539 emissions, including boundary overlaps. These workload counts are distinct from the one-trillion numerical-prefix claim. All 12 repeated 64-bit residue groups, comprising 24 member occurrences in 11 of 19,287 bands, were resolved unequal.

Timing and storage. On eight workers, retained active band processing totaled 23 h 57 min 23.146 s (15.131 inherited hours plus 8.826 extension hours). Summed native-child CPU was 116.062 h. The combined calendar span was 36.987 h, from 8 November 2026 at 14:55:01.580398 UTC (08:55:01.580398 CST) to 10 November at 03:54:13.271944 UTC (9 November, 21:54:13.271944 CST). Pauses, lost/regenerated work, interrupted attempts and overhead are reported separately. The maximum measured temporary key-file footprint was 1,065,664,392 bytes (1.066 GB; 0.992 GiB); peak generator RSS was 36,468 KiB. Neither is a whole-machine resource bound.

Final checks. The independent final replay passed at 03:56:16.801036 UTC on 10 November. A fresh portable extraction verified all 20,208 archive members and passed its independent replay at 03:59:41.149704 UTC (9 November, 21:59:41.149704 CST), without partial or skip flags. These checks validate receipts and regenerate repeated-key bands; they are not a complete second enumeration of discarded singleton keys. The 38,920,281-byte recovery archive is bound to final receipt head 624c31904f64f8d9434162396a311228f2ece95d495ff2c7dc9d053314ed0c72.

Six full base-10 values. The supplement gives the trillionth Markov value, its predecessor, and the strict predecessor/successor pairs around 10^1000000 and 10^999999. Both ordinal values have 1,021,609 digits. The six files contain 6,043,218 digits. Their expansions were first posted on 9 November 2026 in record 24093257, v12-supplement-only (manuscript v11); the public record exposes the date without a time of day. Their numerical ranks were confirmed on 10 November at 04:18:33.296330 UTC (9 November, 22:18:33.296330 CST) by the completed certificate and fresh rank checks with two Farey partitions. The decimal digits are unchanged. The first million-digit value has rank 958,142,673,903; exactly 1,916,520 Markov values have one million digits. The selected ordinal pair is not asserted to be the globally closest pair; that statistic was not recorded.

Figures 13 and 14 explain the Meridian motivation, Farey grouping and comparison with H. Tan and Y. Zhang, arXiv:2611.01007v1 / doi:10.5281/zenodo.23670834. Their reported result covers 239,536,376,556 maxima through 10^500000. Their 184.27-GB largest-job five-byte payload and our temporary key-file peak are explicitly scoped components. No total-runtime or CPU speedup ratio is claimed.

The manuscript preserves the author-approved Fibonacci-matrix and six-piece arguments, contribution statement and AI disclosure, and final-page exploratory Zeckendorf preview followed by both dedications. The historical 500-billion certificate remains unchanged. The general Markov unicity problem remains open. Author: Elleard Felix Webster Heffern, unaffiliated; no funding. Original software: MIT. Original documentation and data: CC BY 4.0. Third-party materials retain their own terms.

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Software: 10.5281/zenodo.23874075 (DOI)

References

  • H. Tan and Y. Zhang, A Computational Verification of the Markov Uniqueness Conjecture for z ≤ 10^500000, arXiv:2611.01007v1 (31 October 2026); computational archive, doi:10.5281/zenodo.23670834 (26 October 2026).