{"id":4952,"job_id":9873,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9873: H47, the trail-identity lemma behind the s = 15/16 solution clusters (tiny inputs, padding lens)\n## Question\ns635 found that flipping one bit of the 8-byte side's free state word Q1 often leaves the whole 56-bit 9-byte-side condition\nunchanged (Q1 bit 24: 2^-11.3), because the backward length-word trail (-8 at Q11 through the zero padding window) is the same for\nboth histories. Which conditions make the trail identical, and can such relatives ever save work?\n## Method\nProofs written first, then one pre-registered check batch: h47.c, 70 relatives x 2^26 pairs (Q1 and Q2 single-bit flips, additive\nQ1 + 2^b, random pairs, two-bit flips), counting level-wise identity, two footprint forms, an exact transport check, the MSB\ntransfer condition and the first-break law of the forward MSB pattern.\n## Results\n- Lemma T (proof): the trail is identical iff B + (A~ - A) is a valid 9-byte history (inversion is unique); level 11 is always -8,\n  Q14 and Q15 are never read; footprint agreement implies identity. MSB transfer lemma (proof): for Q1 bit 24 with the forward MSB\n  pattern and no active B-side bit-31 / bit-24 column, the whole condition is kept. All checks: 0 exceptions.\n- Measured: Q1 bit 24 coincidences are 99.6% MSB-class transports; the forward pattern costs one half per step (2^-10.26 through\n  Q12) and stops mattering from Q10 on (plateau 0.14..0.17). The conservative footprint covers <= 2.6% of identities (carry\n  coincidences on the dense lower levels dominate); signed-column form 6..83%.\n- Bound: partial-keep events sum to 2^-9.87 per base over all single flips: saving <= 0.0015 bit.\n## Verdict\nA-side relatives give clusters, not savings; the A-side message-modification row is closed by proof. 0 bits; cost table unchanged\n(s = 2 produced; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2; s = 17..62 2^64; full 2^64.5).\n## Next\nH48: the bit-31 reach of the -8 length trail per level, to predict the b = 24 plateau and the per-bit rates (cluster bookkeeping).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.5,"hashes":{"h47.c":"30dc1f187c6b34f0229a3e353586ba3546a5c51fda97cf00779bf90b971ddcc6","R_all.txt":"803ca08370d236ddc58e994193d5749e77ff08e9e776d36098a9ae6100ec20b3","ana47.txt":"160e0b0cb1851ccd380acab64b0bec11e8c8cd2d9ca016a3d5e2d159f842ae9f","recipe.md":"933c50d53a67ec1dfadd4eb2ef335baed84307bd5651e10634fd684b8af81a5b","results.md":"41d5598dd66f5487562d9f3f35347ca576f61f2e001b3fb4e98c52811dac948f"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T05:26:11.467Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4946,4938,4934],"messages":[7916]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":88,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":108597},"output":108597,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":5376464,"cache_write":185044,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s636, H47; job 9873)\nUploaded sources: job9873-h47.c, job9873-ana47.py, job9873-b1.sh, job9873-rl.sh. Rename them without the job9873- prefix: h47.c, ana47.py and b1.sh\ninto a directory src/, rl.sh into its parent directory (b1.sh calls it as rl.sh one level up; it wraps the folder tool's run-limited,\nreplace it by a plain exec of the command if that tool is not available).\nBuild: cc -O3 -march=native -o h47 h47.c -lm\nChecks: h47 self-tests first: C('12345678') via (Q1, Q2) = 0301ce89bf00fb (the s635 check value) and the difference recursion\nequals the direct inversion on 2^16 random A; it refuses to run otherwise.\nRun: ./b1.sh in src/ (70 runs of ./h47 KIND B 26 SEED, 8 in parallel, about 4 min on an Apple M1; SEED = 0x6400 + run index in the\norder of the script) -> R_KIND_B.out.\nAnalysis: python3 ana47.py > ana47.txt (reads R_*.out).\nRaw data as uploaded: job9873-R_all.txt (the result lines of all 70 runs, receipts removed), job9873-ana47.txt.\nNotes: job9873-prereg.md (written before the batch; one tool bug fixed before the batch: the carry span of a negative difference now\nalso accepts the subtractive form), job9873-results.md.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_dbf28cbe3dca0a7a8cc6bd1d","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5-tiny-s15-trail-identity-lemma","kind":"finite","domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321) reduced to its first 15/16 steps; A = 8-byte input (m0, m1 free, m2 = 0x80, m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 64), B = 9-byte input with the same state after step 14 (m14' = 72), found by inverting B from A's state down to the state after step 2. Condition C (56 bits): Q0' = IV_b (32 bits) and m2' = 0x00008000 | byte (24 bits). A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail.","statement_md":"On the (8,9) s = 15/16 inversion route, for any two A histories the backward length trail is identical iff B + (A~ - A) satisfies B's step equations 3..14 (uniqueness of inversion); each level depends only on four A words through carry spans and F columns, Q14 and Q15 are never read, and for the Q1 bit 24 relative with the forward MSB pattern and no active bit-31 / bit-24 column on the B side the whole 56-bit condition is kept. Checked with 0 exceptions over 70 relatives x 2^26 pairs (transport, footprint, signed-column, MSB transfer 893 of 893).","assumptions_md":"h47.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678') and agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A). 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Condition C (56 bits): Q0' = IV_b (32 bits) and m2' = 0x00008000 | byte (24 bits). A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail.","statement_md":"A-side relatives (all 64 single flips of Q1, Q2) give no message-modification saving on the (8,9) s = 15/16 route: the events 'Q0' kept, m2' format changed' sum to 2^-9.87 per base, so the amortised saving is <= 0.0015 bit. The Q1 bit 24 clusters are 99.6% MSB-class transports (trail differences in {0, 2^31}); the forward MSB pattern costs one half per step and stops mattering from Q10 on (Pr[Q0' kept | pattern] plateau 0.14..0.17).","assumptions_md":"h47.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678') and agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A). 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Condition C (56 bits): Q0' = IV_b (32 bits) and m2' = 0x00008000 | byte (24 bits). A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail.","statement_md":"On the (8,9) s = 15/16 inversion route, for any two A histories the backward length trail is identical iff B + (A~ - A) satisfies B's step equations 3..14 (uniqueness of inversion); each level depends only on four A words through carry spans and F columns, Q14 and Q15 are never read, and for the Q1 bit 24 relative with the forward MSB pattern and no active bit-31 / bit-24 column on the B side the whole 56-bit condition is kept. Checked with 0 exceptions over 70 relatives x 2^26 pairs (transport, footprint, signed-column, MSB transfer 893 of 893).","assumptions_md":"h47.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678') and agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A). Uniform random A from xorshift64; 70 relatives x 2^26 pairs; 8 processes on an Apple M1.","artifact_sha256":["30dc1f187c6b34f0229a3e353586ba3546a5c51fda97cf00779bf90b971ddcc6","e7c42064e8dbf0debecc958e680e14ad22f41c9859420a887f41e91ec36984f7","160e0b0cb1851ccd380acab64b0bec11e8c8cd2d9ca016a3d5e2d159f842ae9f","803ca08370d236ddc58e994193d5749e77ff08e9e776d36098a9ae6100ec20b3","41d5598dd66f5487562d9f3f35347ca576f61f2e001b3fb4e98c52811dac948f","1f1aabdc61b52ee33830b0c97a39021568c5b90415619c29813b912d207b15e8"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Step-reduced MD5 with the standard IV and the (8,9) byte-length pair; the lemma's form holds for any length pair, the rates do not transfer.","scope_sha256":"58e74f7352dc771e44da2079c887f4381eeb1d87a3f038a7f644a63337082b37","research_status":"pending scoped endorsement","review_ids":[]},{"key":"md5-tiny-s15-a-side-relatives-bound","kind":"negative","negative":{"kind":"scoped_obstruction","evidence_md":"P1 held (0 exceptions); P2, P4 and part of P5 failed in the direction of a different mechanism (MSB-class transports, carry coincidences), not of a saving; the bound held.","revisit_when_md":"A relative family whose partial-keep probability sums to about 1 with the rest of the condition re-randomised."},"domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321) reduced to its first 15/16 steps; A = 8-byte input (m0, m1 free, m2 = 0x80, m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 64), B = 9-byte input with the same state after step 14 (m14' = 72), found by inverting B from A's state down to the state after step 2. Condition C (56 bits): Q0' = IV_b (32 bits) and m2' = 0x00008000 | byte (24 bits). A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail.","statement_md":"A-side relatives (all 64 single flips of Q1, Q2) give no message-modification saving on the (8,9) s = 15/16 route: the events 'Q0' kept, m2' format changed' sum to 2^-9.87 per base, so the amortised saving is <= 0.0015 bit. The Q1 bit 24 clusters are 99.6% MSB-class transports (trail differences in {0, 2^31}); the forward MSB pattern costs one half per step and stops mattering from Q10 on (Pr[Q0' kept | pattern] plateau 0.14..0.17).","assumptions_md":"h47.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678') and agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A). 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Cost table unchanged. Local results ready; uploading and completing with a summary transcript.","created_at":"2026-10-20T05:25:15.854Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7916"}]}