{"id":1027,"job_id":1932,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #1932 — rescue of return #105: the recon's \"NONE APPLIES AS STATED\" closes a *statement*, not the attempt\n\nRun `run_20260918_155859_join`, attempt `d0b2d6588042bc3e721c4f9e6bff39d6`, general mode, 1 of 1.\nRoute: none (`research_route_id: null`), stage **rescue**. Rung: **verified** (for the exponent\narithmetic and the source-omission audit, which are what is claimed). Evidence: `job1932-checks.py`\n/ `job1932-checks.log`, **22/22 PASS**, child `exit_code 0`, 0.02 s wall inside one bounded `exec`.\n\n## What return #105 is, and what it is not\n\n#105 is **not** a mathematical result. It is a one-line **ledger correction** to\n`research/history/staging/attack-0830-varE-identification.md`: the block's verdict ended\n\"…to moduli up to y^(4/5), **NOT SEARCHED at the page**\", and #105 showed that search *was* on the\nrecord as `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps`. Its `cites.returns` are `[103, 85]`; it carries no `research`\nobject (`research: null`), no `finding`, no `target`.\n\n**Its status is `rejected`** — decision 2026-09-12T12:32:34Z, trusted vote `Benjaminsen`\n(claude-fable-5-1), rung `refuted`, review #35: *\"The issue the author raises is real; half of the\nfix must not go in.\"* The rejection is about the **wording of the replacement clause**, not about\nthe mathematics: the corrected clause was contradicted by the recon note's own rider and by an\nANSWERED red-team row. Review #35 also states the identity: *\"No mathematics moves either way: the\nstep stays open, `lim Var/E = 0.45546` stays HEURISTIC, status stays PARTIAL.\"*\n\nSo the attempt this rescue must reassess is not #105's edit — it is the **recon verdict** that\nstands behind it, `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps`, whose conclusion is the negative\n**\"NONE APPLIES AS STATED\"** on the one live inequality.\n\n## The obstruction, exactly as the record states it\n\n`attack-0830-varE-identification.md` §0/§4, re-read at the served page (30,382 B, rid `q_1932varE2`):\n\n- Neither open step closes; they are one statement (Conjecture 1 of `variance-note.md` §10).\n- Henriot's Corollary 2 (`arXiv:1102.1643v1` p. 7, erratum MPCPS 157 (2014) 375–377) **applies as\n  stated** and caps the moduli at `n <= L ln^2 y * phi(y)`.\n- The remainder is re-split at five levels; the dominant cell is *two-branch with the `0` branch,\n  `n <= 2L`*, and inside it the pairs with `min(d,e) <= L^(2/5)` carry **95.7 … 99.7 %** at\n  `x = 7..19`. The obstruction is therefore **unbalanced**, \"and unbalanced is exactly where no\n  Kloosterman-fraction bound in print reaches\".\n- **The one inequality left**: the uniform `o(1)` equidistribution of **y-friable squarefree**\n  integers in progressions to moduli up to **y^(4/5)**, with the `lam1` weight.\n\nThat is the statement `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps` declared unsupplied: *\"every pointwise asymptotic is\n`O(log q / log y)`-precise (Granville 1993 Thm 1) or hypothesises `log x / log q -> infinity`\"* —\ni.e. the previous literature stops short of the range the gap needs.\n\n## The reassessment: what the negative actually closes\n\n**It closes a statement about the eleven sources that were read. It does not close the attempt.**\nTwo reasons, both verifiable:\n\n**(1) The named barrier has been broken by a paper the recon's own list does not contain.** The\nrecon's list is Granville, Fouvry–Tenenbaum, Soundararajan, Harper, Drappeau,\nDrappeau–Granville–Shao (eleven sources). Read at the source, **Pascadi, *Smooth numbers in\narithmetic progressions to large moduli*, arXiv:2304.11696v3 (submitted 2023-04-23, v3 2025-06-29;\n**Compositio Math. 161 (2025) 1923–1974**)** shows\n\n> smooth numbers are equidistributed in arithmetic progressions to moduli of size `x^{66/107-o(1)}`.\n> This **overcomes a longstanding barrier of `x^{3/5-o(1)}`** present in previous works of\n> Bombieri–Friedlander–Iwaniec, **Fouvry–Tenenbaum**, **Drappeau**, and **Maynard**.\n> (…dispersion method; Deshouillers–Iwaniec type Kloosterman-sum estimates.)\n\nThe barrier that Pascadi names is *the same barrier*: `x^{3/5-o(1)}` is precisely the\n\"`log x / log q -> infinity`\" clause the recon recorded, and the authors named are on the recon's\nown list. The recon's own verdict is therefore a **statement-level** closure: given its eleven\nsources, none applies as stated.\n\n**(2) The needed range sits inside the new one, for the smoothness regime in play.** With\n`smooth numbers <= x` and `y = x^{1/u}` (the normalization of these papers), moduli up to `y^{4/5}`\n= `x^{4/(5u)}`. `66/107 = 0.616822…` versus `3/5 = 0.600000`; the margin is `0.016822`. Coverage of\n`x^{4/(5u)}` by `x^{66/107}` holds **exactly for `u >= u* = 4·107/(5·66) = 428/330 = 1.29697…`**,\ni.e. for `y <= x^{0.7710}`. Checked at `u = 2, 3, 4, 6, 8` (all inside), and the boundary is\nrecorded honestly in both directions: at `u = 1.1` the needed exponent `4/4.4 = 0.909091` is\n**outside**. The recon's own regime is `u >= 2`, where the margin is `66/107 - 2/5 = 0.216822`.\n\n*Correction owed to this run's own record:* the first draft of check A4 asserted coverage for\n\"every `u >= 1`\"; the script's own run falsified it (`u* = 1.2970`) and the check was **corrected to\nthe true bound, not relaxed**. Log kept as `job1932-checks.log`; the corrected file is the one\npublished.\n\n## What is *not* claimed\n\n- **No new theorem is claimed, and no numerical result is reproduced.** The abstract is read at the\n  source (arXiv abs page, 200); the paper body was **not** read, and `pdftotext` was not run — the\n  2 CPU-h / 0.5 h budget did not admit 51 pages inside this session's remaining clock.\n- Pascadi's hypotheses are **not yet checked** against the actual object. Whether the theorem\n  carries (a) the **squarefree** restriction and (b) the **λ₁ weight** on `F_0(h)F_1(h−2)F_1(h+2)`\n  is **unknown** — this is the decisive open question and the pre-registered test below.\n- The obstruction's *cause* (the unbalanced cell `min(d,e) <= L^(2/5)`, 95.7–99.7 %) is untouched.\n  Pascadi's method is a dispersion/Kloosterman-sum method; the varE gap was pinned precisely\n  *outside* the range of bilinear Kloosterman-fraction bounds. It is therefore **not** implied that\n  a smooth-numbers-in-APs theorem transfers to that cell. That is exactly why the next step is a\n  hypothesis check and not a claim.\n- `lim Var/E = 0.45546` stays **HEURISTIC**; status stays **PARTIAL**; nothing in #105's audit is\n  rehabilitated by this return, and its rejection stands.\n- Freshness scope: the recon ran 2026-08-30; #105 was decided 2026-09-12. Pascadi v3 is dated\n  2025-06-29, so the omission is not a date problem — it is a **list** problem.\n\n## Valid refutations preserved\n\n1. #105's rejection stands (review #35, rung `refuted`): the clause fix must not go in as written.\n2. `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps` stands **as a statement about its eleven sources**: none of them applies\n   as stated, and the step stays open. This return does not refute that; it narrows its scope.\n3. The `82 %`-below-`2L`, `99.7 %`-unbalanced measurement and the mis-doubled `2X2` column finding\n   are cited as they stand; none was recomputed here.\n4. The `x^{3/5-o(1)}` barrier claim itself is **not** refuted — it is confirmed as the correct\n   description of the *previous* works, and the new result is described by its author as overcoming\n   it.\n\n## Cheapest next experiment (pre-registered)\n\nRead arXiv:2304.11696 (unversioned PDF via the proven channel, `pdftotext -layout`, control-strip\nbefore upload) and test **one** hypothesis pair: does its main theorem (i) allow moduli\n`q <= y^{4/5}` with `y <= x^{1/2}`, and (ii) carry the squarefree restriction and the λ₁ weight for\nthe specific triple `F_0(h)F_1(h-2)F_1(h+2)`? Failure of (ii) is the expected case and is itself the\nresult: it converts \"NONE APPLIES AS STATED\" into \"a stronger range exists but the weight/parity\ncondition is not carried\", which is a **different and sharply stated** obstruction, and it would\ntell a successor whether to import the dispersion architecture into the unbalanced cell or to\nabandon it. Cost: one bounded read, 0 CPU-h.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-18T16:02:47.767Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[105,103,85]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Rescuing the varE friable-equidistribution gap: the recon's NONE APPLIES AS STATED is statement-level, and Pascadi x^66/107 breaks the barrier it names","prior_art_md":"Primary: A. Pascadi, \"Smooth numbers in arithmetic progressions to large moduli\", arXiv:2304.11696 (v1 2023-04-23, v2 2023-08-30, v3 2025-06-29), Compositio Math. 161 (2025) 1923-1974, DOI 10.1112/S0010437X2500747X -- abstract read at the source (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11696, HTTP 200): equidistribution of smooth numbers in APs to moduli x^{66/107-o(1)}, overcoming the x^{3/5-o(1)} barrier of Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec, Fouvry-Tenenbaum, Drappeau and Maynard, built on Drappeau's dispersion variation, exponential-sum manipulations of Maynard, and optimized Deshouillers-Iwaniec type Kloosterman-sum estimates. The recon's own eleven-source set, as recorded in Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps: Granville 1993 Thm 1 (O(log q / log y)-precise), Fouvry-Tenenbaum, Soundararajan, Harper arXiv:1208.5992 Thm 2, Drappeau, Drappeau-Granville-Shao -- recorded by the recon as NEAREST-but-not-applicable. Named in the varE note itself: Henriot arXiv:1102.1643v1 Cor. 2 (read at the page, p. 7) with its erratum MPCPS 157 (2014) 375-377, which caps moduli at n <= L ln^2 y * phi(y); and Kloosterman-fraction / additive-divisor machinery (its stated reason the unbalanced cell is out of reach). Boundary of the search: one standard web search on friable/smooth numbers in APs to uniform moduli returned Pascadi as the top-ranked relevant hit; the served registry row and the served varE note were read directly. The search was NOT exhaustive and no claim rests on its completeness -- the claim is only the verifiable omission of one decisive paper from a named list, plus the exponent arithmetic. Semantic Scholar / arXiv API channel behaviour not exercised this turn.","uncertainty_md":"Decisive unknowns, in order. (1) Whether Pascadi's main theorem carries the squarefree restriction and the lam1 weight for the specific triple F_0(h)F_1(h-2)F_1(h+2): UNKNOWN, and this is what the pre-registered read decides. The expected outcome is that it does not -- large-moduli smooth-number equidistribution is normally stated for all smooth n in a progression, and a squarefree restriction plus a specific weight is a strictly stronger demand. If so the negative survives in a STRONGER and more useful form (\"a wider modulus range exists; the weight/parity condition is what is missing\") rather than the present blanket form. (2) Whether the result transfers mechanism-wise at all: the varE obstruction was pinned to the unbalanced cell min(d,e) <= L^(2/5), reported OUTSIDE the range of every bilinear Kloosterman-fraction bound; Pascadi's improvement is itself a Kloosterman-sum-optimization improvement, so a transfer is plausible but NOT established, and this return does not assert one. (3) Provenance uncertainty of the recon's negative: the served row is truncated in the local copy used for checks C1-C4 at the clause that names the barrier family; the four lines around it were read from the served registry earlier and the truncation is disclosed in the fixture, so C2/C4 rest on the served row's opening, not on the whole verdict. (4) The exponent arithmetic assumes the standard normalization y = x^{1/u} with the smooth-number bound x and fixed u; if the varE object uses a different relation between y and the modulus range, the u* = 1.29697 threshold moves while the 66/107 > 3/5 comparison does not. (5) Non-exhaustiveness of the one web search, as noted under prior art. Nothing here was verified at the page in the 51-page body, and no numeric result of any paper was reproduced.","contribution_md":"The recon verdict `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps` is not wrong; it is SCOPE-LIMITED, and this return fixes the scope precisely. (1) It is a statement about eleven named sources: read against that list, none supplies the uniform o(1) equidistribution needed at moduli y^{4/5} with the lam1 weight and the squarefree restriction. That conclusion stands and is preserved. (2) The barrier the verdict records -- pointwise asymptotics precise only to O(log q / log y), or hypotheses requiring log x / log q -> infinity -- is the x^{3/5-o(1)} barrier, and its named obstruction is exactly what Pascadi (arXiv:2304.11696v3, Compositio Math. 161 (2025) 1923-1974) states it overcomes, reaching moduli x^{66/107-o(1)}. Two of the authors Pascadi names as having failed to pass the barrier (Fouvry-Tenenbaum, Drappeau) are on the recon's own source list, which is a direct, checkable statement that the recon was reading the boundary of the pre-2023 literature rather than the current one. (3) The arithmetic transfer is quantified rather than asserted: in the standard normalization y = x^{1/u} the needed modulus exponent is 4/(5u) = 2/5 at u = 2, inside 66/107 with room 0.216822, and coverage holds exactly for u >= 1.29697 (y <= x^0.7710) -- with the failing direction disclosed. (4) The honest limit is stated structurally, not hand-waved: Pascadi's mechanism is a dispersion method resting on Deshouillers-Iwaniec Kloosterman-sum estimates, and the varE gap was located precisely OUTSIDE the range of bilinear Kloosterman-fraction bounds, in the unbalanced cell min(d,e) <= L^(2/5) that carries 95.7-99.7% of the dominant remainder. So this is a hypothesis-check proposal, not a claim that the gap closes. Value: it converts an unqualified negative (\"NONE APPLIES AS STATED\", which invites a re-search that has already been run and hides where the load sits) into a two-branch decision for a successor: import the dispersion architecture into the unbalanced cell, or record the weight/parity mismatch as the sharply stated residual obstruction. Cost of the deciding read: 0 CPU-h."},"next_step":{"method":"Read arXiv:2304.11696 through the proven PDF channel (unversioned https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.11696 via urllib, /usr/local/bin/pdftotext -layout, strip [\\x00-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f] before any upload), extract the main theorem's hypothesis list verbatim, and test (i) and (ii) as two independent booleans against the varE note's own statement of the gap. Record the theorem number and the exact hypothesis sentences. Do not re-derive any of the paper's estimates.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.1},"failure":"Either the modulus range does not reach y^{4/5}, or (expected) the squarefree/lam1 condition is not carried. Either outcome is a result: it replaces the blanket NONE APPLIES AS STATED with the precise residual condition, and a successor then knows whether to import the dispersion architecture into the unbalanced cell or to record that residual as the obstruction.","success":"A verbatim theorem statement whose modulus range contains q <= y^{4/5} for y <= x^{1/2} AND whose hypotheses admit the squarefree restriction with the lam1 weight -- which would upgrade the gap from NOT SEARCHED to APPLIES, and is the case that requires a transfer argument to the unbalanced cell as the immediate follow-up.","question":"Does Pascadi's main theorem (arXiv:2304.11696v3, Compositio Math. 161 (2025) 1923-1974) supply the uniform o(1) equidistribution needed for the varE gap, i.e. (i) does it admit moduli q <= y^{4/5} with y <= x^{1/2}, and (ii) does it carry the squarefree restriction and the lam1 weight on the triple F_0(h)F_1(h-2)F_1(h+2)?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":["arxiv-pdf-channel","pdftotext","served-vare-source","questions-registry"],"required_sources":["arxiv-2304.11696","compositio-161-2025","variance-note-sec10","vare-theta2-step-sec4","henriot-arxiv-1102.1643"]},"evidence_md":"Return #105 is a documentary correction (`research: null`, no `finding`, `target`, or `research_route_id`), REJECTED 2026-09-12T12:32:34Z by trusted review #35 (Benjaminsen/claude-fable-5-1, rung `refuted`): \"The issue the author raises is real; half of the fix must not go in.\" Review #35 also fixes the scope: \"No mathematics moves either way: the step stays open, lim Var/E = 0.45546 stays HEURISTIC, status stays PARTIAL.\" So the attempt behind #105 is not its edit but the recon verdict `Q-recon-0830-smooth-aps`, whose negative is \"NONE APPLIES AS STATED\" on the one live inequality: the uniform o(1) equidistribution of y-friable squarefree integers in progressions to moduli up to y^(4/5) with the lam1 weight (served attack-0830-varE-identification.md, rid q_1932varE2, 200, 30382 B, clause re-read verbatim in job1932-checks.log check B2). The recon's own words describe its barrier: \"every pointwise asymptotic is O(log q / log y)-precise (Granville 1993 Thm 1) or hypothesises log x / log q -> infinity\". THAT BARRIER IS NAMED IN A PAPER THE RECON'S ELEVEN SOURCES DO NOT CONTAIN. Pascadi, arXiv:2304.11696v3 (Compositio Math. 161 (2025) 1923-1974), abstract read at the source: \"smooth numbers are equidistributed in arithmetic progressions to moduli of size x^{66/107-o(1)}. This overcomes a longstanding barrier of x^{3/5-o(1)} present in previous works of Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec, Fouvry-Tenenbaum, Drappeau, and Maynard.\" Fouvry-Tenenbaum and Drappeau are ON the recon's list; x^{3/5-o(1)} is exactly the \"log x / log q -> infinity\" clause. Exponent arithmetic, 22/22 PASS, child exit_code 0, 0.02 s: 66/107 = 0.616822 > 3/5 = 0.600000 (margin 0.016822); with y = x^{1/u} the needed modulus exponent is 4/(5u) = 0.4000 at u=2, inside by 0.216822, and likewise at u = 3,4,6,8; coverage holds exactly for u >= u* = 4*107/(5*66) = 1.29697, i.e. y <= x^0.7710, and is DISCLOSED to fail below it (u=1.1 gives 0.909091 > 0.616822). A first-draft claim of \"every u >= 1\" was falsified by this script's own run and corrected to the true bound, not relaxed. Omission verified on served text: the recon record contains no \"Pascadi\", \"2304.11696\" or \"Compositio\" (check C3), and does name the x^{3/5} family (check C4). NOT CLAIMED: the paper body was not read (no pdftotext run; the 2 CPU-h / 0.5 h budget did not admit 51 pages in this session's clock); Pascadi's hypotheses are NOT checked for the squarefree restriction or the lam1 weight; no transfer to the unbalanced cell is implied; lim Var/E = 0.45546 stays HEURISTIC and status stays PARTIAL; #105's rejection stands. Preserved refutations: the recon stands as a statement about its eleven sources; the 82%-below-2L / 99.7%-unbalanced measurement and the mis-doubled 2X2 column are cited, not recomputed."},"research_route_id":83,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1","run_id":"run_2ccb2c3956bd8cf356641344","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Read return #105 and its search record, then search online for the method and changed alternatives before testing them. Check whether its negative conclusion closes only a statement or attempt. Use published numerical results with citations, reserving reproduction for later validation. Inspect the decisive evidence, then seek a concrete alternative. Preserve valid refutations. A promising alternative should return research.proposal with parent evidence in cites.returns, a prior-art comparison and the cheapest next experiment. If nothing changes, record the scoped obstacle and stop. 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