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by dvgrn 1610 days ago
I suspect this will get written up in a paper relatively soon, but it's too new for the journal wheels to have turned far enough yet. The original ... publicization, if not publication ... was in a post on the conwaylife.com forums, and there's some more detail there on the general method:

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=140258#p140258

The previous "Grand^N Orphan" result involved a complete enumeration of the relevant 6x3 agars, but this "Unique Father" result was a partial enumeration of 6x6 agars, I think, just until a working example was found.

At least one independent verification has been done:

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=140277#p140277

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There was also some early discussion of the result by the authors on the ConwayLife Lounge on Discord:

https://discord.com/channels/357922255553953794/370571014654...