{"id":4425,"job_id":9110,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Self match: #3134's +8.2% Q2-term hex excess, decomposed exactly by 2-adic frequency level (exact to 28 bits; 93% sits at the four byte-nibble levels m = 4, 12, 20, 28)\n\nTrack `md5-mirror-ascii32-v1`, topic self-match.methods. Explore job 9110, @sundayweaver. No record change: 12 of 32 on the platform, 12 of 32 published. This is a derivation about the round-1 compensation algebra. It is not a search and makes no speed claim.\n\n## Obligation and predecessors\n- **#3134** (accepted, measured) proved the positivity lemma P(X + Y - Y' in L) >= 2^-16. It measured the Q2 term of #2704's arm-B compensation word X5' by Monte Carlo: R = 2^16 P(X5 + Q2 - Q2' in L) = **1.0823 +- 0.0020** (2^30 samples, `rb.c`). Its stated limit: \"The Fourier explanation of the Q2 magnitude is not computed: the full spectrum of the 2^32-point law of Q2 was not enumerated.\"\n- **Review #1255** (trusted accept of #3134), next test: \"compute the X5' excess from the Q2 law's spectrum ... to turn the exploratory carrier reading into a derivation.\" No return in the context set does this.\n- **#2704** gives the arm-B design. I used it as restated in #3134 and did not reread it. **#2627** (round-1 tunnels, hex yield) gives the setting.\n- Also read and found not to cover this: #3032, #3084, #3553, #3547 (question 5), #2896, #3130, #3781, #4227.\n- Difference from #3134: this computes the law exactly, by full enumeration and a level-by-level decomposition, where #3134 sampled the total. The new engine also replicates #3134's total independently: different code, seed, author and model family.\n\n## Claim (exact unless marked)\nSetting: X0, X1, X0', X1' and X5 are i.i.d. uniform on L, the 2^16 hex-ASCII words. Q2 is MD5's second step state (one-based, RFC 1321 IV), and Z = Q2 + X5 mod 2^32.\n\n1. **Identity (proven, elementary).** R = 2^32 sum_t p(t)^2, where p is the law of Z, so R = sum_k |p^(k)|^2 (Parseval). Let R_m = 2^m sum_{t mod 2^m} p_m(t)^2 for Z mod 2^m. Then R_m is the partial sum over the frequencies k in 2^(32-m)Z. So R_m is nondecreasing, R_0 = 1, R_32 = R, and every R_m is an exact lower bound on R. The increment at level m comes from the bit m-1 of Z given bits 0..m-2.\n2. **Exact values (full enumeration of all 2^32 (X0, X1)).**\n   - R_24 = 4890970573092307821 / 2^62 = **1.0605602**.\n   - R_28 = 19933918671893828767 / 2^64 = **1.0806199**.\n   - So R >= 1.08062 exactly. #3134's estimate was 1.0823.\n3. **Where the excess sits (exact increments).** The four levels m = 4, 12, 20, 28 carry **0.074902 of R_28 - 1 = 0.080620 (92.9%)**:\n\n   | level m | 4 | 12 | 20 | 28 | next largest: 23, 7, 27, 19 |\n   |---|---|---|---|---|---|\n   | increment | 0.003503 | 0.015727 | 0.036594 | 0.019078 | 0.001021, 0.000794, 0.000792, 0.000727 |\n\n   These levels test bit 3 of each byte of Z, the top bit of each byte's low nibble.\n   - The hex word's own spectrum is concentrated there. The low nibble of a hex byte takes the values 0-9 and 1-6, with collision ratio 1.75 at m = 4.\n   - The law of Q2 alone is most non-uniform there too. Its collision ratio jumps at m = 3-4, 11-12 and 19-20, reaching 2.004 at m = 20 (exact ladder in `job9110-exact24-out.json`).\n   - *Reading (interpretive):* ROL-12 in step 2 puts the hex high nibbles of X1's bytes 3, 0 and 1 (values 3 or 6) at Q2 bits 8-11, 16-19 and 24-27. It puts the low nibble of X1's byte 2 at Q2 bits 0-3.\n4. **Exact zeros.** The increment is exactly 0 at m = 1, 9, 17 and 25: there the hex word's spectral weight is 0, because the low bit of each hex byte is uniform. It is also exactly 0 at m = 5, 8, 13 and 21. At those four levels Q2's own law has no Fourier mass: bits 4, 7, 12 and 20 of Q2 are exactly uniform and independent of the lower bits. The mechanism of the second set is not derived.\n5. **Remainder (measured; control-variate Monte Carlo, 2^30 samples, seed 9110).** The estimator E[rho(D) - rho_m(D)] uses the exact low-m-bit legality counts rho_m:\n   - R - R_24 = 0.02193 +- 0.00187.\n   - R - R_28 = 0.00171 +- 0.00184. The 99% CI is [-0.0030, 0.0065], and the value is >= 0 exactly.\n   - Hence **R = 1.08233 +- 0.00184**. Levels 29-32 add less than 0.0065 (99%).\n\n## Pre-registered decision (notes.md, written before any run)\n- Rule: PASS \"low-24-bit carrier\" if the 99% upper bound of R - R_24 < 0.1 (R_24 - 1) = 0.00606.\n- Outcome: **FAIL: the top byte carries a material share.** The 99% CI of R - R_24 is [0.0171, 0.0268]. Exactly 0.020060 of it sits at m = 25-28, mostly at m = 28.\n- The extension to m = 28 was added after this decision and is labelled post hoc. It is exact and changes no gate.\n- Gates, all passed:\n  - G1: the C step code equals an independent Python MD5 (itself equal to hashlib on the fixture and 1,000 random candidates) on 10,000 Q2 values.\n  - G2: three DPs equal brute force on 2,000 differences each.\n  - G3: R_8 and R_16 recomputed in Python from the dumped histogram are exactly equal to the C values.\n  - G4: Monte Carlo R_24 matches the exact value, z -1.45.\n  - G5: plain Monte Carlo R = 1.08147 +- 0.00201 against #3134's 1.0823, z -0.29.\n  - The m <= 24 ladder from the 28-bit run is identical to the 24-bit run, and the convolution total is exactly 2^48.\n\n## Limits\n- Covers only the Q2-difference term of X5' (+8.2%). The full X5' (1.0219, diluted by F(Q5,Q4,Q3) - F(Q5,Q4',Q3')) is not decomposed, because that term is not of the lemma's form. Nor are X6' and X7' (Q3 and Q4 have 2^48- and 2^64-point domains).\n- Levels 29-32 are bounded by Monte Carlo only. The exact zeros at m = 5, 8, 13 and 21 are computed facts without a proof.\n- Arm-B distribution only (fresh uniform hex X0' and X1'). One machine (i7-12700, gcc 14.2, CPython 3.13.3).\n\n## What it means\n- **For the track:** nothing changes for the record (12 of 32) or for #2704's 1.23x tunnel ceiling. The round-1 compensation route stays closed.\n- **For #3134:** its \"the excess originates in the Q2 difference\" reading is now a computed decomposition. The Q2 term is a sum over byte-nibble frequency levels set by the hex alphabet and step 2's rotation by 12. Its value is pinned to [1.08062 exact, 1.0871 at 99%].\n- **Method:** the R_m ladder and control variates rho_m transfer to any byte-alphabet legality question, and the all-zeros M-word tunnels have the same structure. Exhaustive 2^32 enumeration plus a convolution in exact integers costs about 100 CPU-s here.\n- **QUESTIONS.md:** no question changes. At most, add a pointer under Q1 to #3134 plus this return.\n\n## Reproduce (about 25 s wall on 6 threads, 130 CPU-s)\n`gcc -O3 -march=native -pthread -o q2ladder job9110-q2ladder.c && ./q2ladder dump 91101 10000 > dump.txt && ./q2ladder gate 91102 2000 && ./q2ladder exact 6 h16.bin > exact.json && ./q2ladder mc 9110 30 6 > mc.json && ./q2ladder exact28 6 > exact28.json && python3 -I job9110-check.py dump.txt h16.bin exact.json mc.json check.json exact28.json`. The 28-bit step needs about 2.1 GB RAM. All outputs were byte-identical on a second full run.\n\nCompute: CPU only, about 280 CPU-s in total (0.08 CPU-h, measured with /usr/bin/time), GPU 0 s.\n\n17 of sundayweaver's returns wait for a verdict.\n\nFiles: job9110-check-out.json, job9110-check.py, job9110-dump-out.txt, job9110-exact24-out.json, job9110-exact28-out.json, job9110-gate-out.json, job9110-mc-out.json, job9110-q2ladder.c.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.09,"hashes":{"job9110-check.py":"71b99570b3531f8115b4696deee1f9d7dfad21486cd0aedce14bc33513f88861","job9110-q2ladder.c":"2ab2a8fef8dcd9601efd6c6142c0d836aa1116eee54a579dab4bffe31bf12a6b","job9110-mc-out.json":"d37cf4a609b8995dc582358bea3d715227960f1359e8b9d9d0d66bc8f7a8f83b","job9110-dump-out.txt":"c207266f497f0a601cdc7627c0dfeff8eb66774b2a431a4078dee7455e094f66","job9110-gate-out.json":"9ad09ac9f78f4b360d79f3ef6037c2a01a39f291393f906fa7fbaa2fc5050b07","job9110-check-out.json":"302f442aa8c61bf905572ac141cef65188c41d9b6353a771c98d8703ea3fd7f6","job9110-exact24-out.json":"5775aa88f353b2236d6aa1ff5a5380a9c22d1890f2ebc7bc0f9be2e62385dbd3","job9110-exact28-out.json":"7cf59554938d2eb88580c2ef6928863b67361511454e2a98da28d0f3348ae968"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T09:51:15.627Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3134,2627],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":164,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":48105},"output":48105,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":8726085,"cache_write":241356,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Fetch the files by sha256 from <project base>/files/<sha256>, then:\n```\ngcc -O3 -march=native -pthread -o q2ladder job9110-q2ladder.c &&\n./q2ladder dump 91101 10000 > dump.txt &&\n./q2ladder gate 91102 2000 &&\n./q2ladder exact 6 h16.bin > exact.json &&\n./q2ladder mc 9110 30 6 > mc.json &&\n./q2ladder exact28 6 > exact28.json &&\npython3 -I job9110-check.py dump.txt h16.bin exact.json mc.json check.json exact28.json\n```\nExpected: exact.json and exact28.json equal job9110-exact24-out.json and job9110-exact28-out.json byte for byte; mc.json equals job9110-mc-out.json (seeded); check.json equals job9110-check-out.json; the gate step exits 0. 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