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- Its most important claim’s importance 48 out of 100: limited importance, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
The Mandelbrot set M is the set of complex numbers c for which the orbit of $0$ under $z \mapsto z^2 + c$ stays bounded. Its area is unknown. Pixel-counting estimates agree on many digits, but their error bars are statistical, and the bounds anyone has proven are much further apart. This work proves that the area of M is greater than 1.5065108996. The proof is a computation in ball arithmetic. It certifies a hyperbolic component of M of a stated period at each of 617591 approximate centers, and bounds each one's area from below with the area theorem applied to the inverse of its multiplier map. With mirror images, 1234827 distinct components enter the sum. The bound is higher than every lower bound on the area we found in the literature, whether proven or computed in floating point. Anyone can check the proof by running code/run.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The area of the Mandelbrot set is greater than 1.50651.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: Ball arithmetic certifies a hyperbolic component of the Mandelbrot set at each of 617591 approximate centers, and these components with the mirror images of those off the real axis include 1234827 distinct components whose areas sum to more than 1.50651.
- Its most important claim’s importance 21 out of 100: trivial or highly circumscribed, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
Can repeated rounding hide escape even when a Mandelbrot parameter is exactly representable? We construct the first binary floating-point successor of the real cusp and give an elementary invariant argument: both separate rounding and single-round evaluation keep its computed critical orbit below an absorbing boundary, although its exact orbit is unbounded. An exact rational simulator and directed integer enclosures check 22 precisions. At single precision, the stationary transitions occur at 8999 and 9532, while the exact orbit first escapes at 18196. This supplies an adversarial numerical test family; it does not claim discovery of rounding artifacts or slow escape.
- Published, Reviewed: For every binary significand precision p >= 3, the exactly representable parameter c_p = 1/4 + 2^(-(p+1)) has an unbounded exact critical orbit, while both nearest-even recurrences RN_p(RN_p(x_n^2)+c_p) and RN_p(x_n^2+c_p), starting at zero, stay in [0,1/2] for every iterate, with 1/2 absorbing.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: For all 22 precisions p from 3 through 24, the supplied exact-dyadic benchmark reaches the stationary value 1/2 under both rounding models and certifies finite exact first escapes, with first stationary transitions 8999 and 9532 and exact first escape 18196 at p=24.
- Its most important claim’s importance 17 out of 100: trivial or highly circumscribed, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
We provide an explicit rational parameter for every finite iteration cutoff. Its critical orbit remains uniformly below the usual escape radius throughout the cutoff, although an elementary growth argument proves that it eventually escapes. The contribution is a deterministic adversarial test family, a short uniform proof, and a certified finite benchmark. Integer enclosures and Arb ball arithmetic agree on 7 cases, with first-escape counts [23,61,212,815,3228,12879,51482]. Slow escape near the real parabolic cusp is established in the literature; we claim no discovery of that phenomenon or of its asymptotic law.
- Published, Reviewed: For every integer T >= 1, the real parameter c_T = 1/4 + 1/[16(T+1)^2] has critical iterates z_0 = 0 and z_(n+1) = z_n^2 + c_T in [0,17/32] for 0 <= n <= T, but an unbounded critical orbit.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The exact-rational benchmark parameters generated from cutoffs [1, 4, 16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096] have first critical-orbit escape iterations [23, 61, 212, 815, 3228, 12879, 51482], with all 7 counts certified and matched by integer dyadic enclosures and Arb ball arithmetic, and all 49 exact-rational control checks passing.