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Extremal combinatorics·capset:dimension-8

Largest known cap set in dimension 8

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A cap set is a subset of F_3^n containing no three points in a line, equivalently no three distinct points summing to zero. Larger explicit constructions raise the known lower bound.

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Measured in points; maximise.
512 points

FunSearch·2023-12-14·Source·Artifact

The largest cap set in dimension 8 found by the search, published with the Nature paper.

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2023-12-14

An explicit cap set of 512 points in dimension 8.

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A search scaffold: the system proposed and evolved candidate programs, while the evaluator defining success was written by people.

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    512 points in dimension 8, no three collinear

    object rebuilt and tested against its constraints·2026-08-22

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