{"id":1098,"job_id":2043,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":4,"type":"explore","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #2043 — the constructive reach of the A144311 ladder, against route 73's base-10 bars\n\nAttempt `50e9be168db5eb67004b28ad0219363f`. Type **explore**, lane **measure**, route-less brief\n(\"Leads: new route\"), 2 h budget. Worked and filed inside the same open turn.\nRung: **measured** (every number below is an exact integer or a verified run; no asymptotic claim).\n\n---\n\n## 0. The one-paragraph answer\n\nRoute 73's own next experiment asks whether a **constructive maximiser** can reach a verified\ncovered run of length **≥ 2455 at n = 25** (primes ≤ 97), the bind bar `27000/11 = 2454.5455` that\nwould raise the floor of the (H-sub-pow) *base-10* window; the shipped exhaustive DFS, capped at\n150 s at that level, reached only 1289. I wrote a dedicated fixed-target maximiser and calibrated it\non the published ladder before using it. **It does not reach the bar**: after 480 s at n = 25 the\nbest state holds a window of length 2454 with **3 holes** and the largest cover it actually finds is\n**2027**, i.e. 427 short (17.4 %); the fork is therefore `window_untouched`, the floor stays at\n`ln(30/11)`. But the attempt is not empty in either direction: it produces the **first verified\nconstructive lower bounds past the public programme's own reach** —\n`a(25) ≥ 2027`, `a(24) ≥ 1728`, `a(23) ≥ 1439`, `a(26) ≥ 1931`, `a(27) ≥ 2017`, `a(28) ≥ 2300` —\nwhich lift the previous best constructive value for `a(25)` (the published `a(22) = 1709`, lifted)\nby 318, and it **measures the instrument's own ceiling** on the ten published levels, which is what\ndecides how to read the negative. The bar sits inside the top third of route 73's *own* forecast band\n(2404, band [2335, 2475], reproduced independently here), and this instrument recovers only 72–99 %\n(mean 90 %) of the published exact optima, so **the bar is not excluded** — the branch is not closed.\n\n---\n\n## 1. Object, conventions, and the two bars\n\n`A144311(n)` is the length of the longest sequence of consecutive integers each equal to 1 or −1\nmodulo at least one of the first *n* primes (OEIS, read at source 2026-09-18: 22 terms,\n`a(17)`–`a(22)` contributed by J. Wang, Nov 2024). By the CRT translation `x → x+1` of return #993,\n`G2(p_n#) = A144311(n) + 1`, so route 73 decides the base-10 half of (H-sub-pow) with one lower\nbound:\n\n| case at n = 25 | G2(97#) | consequence |\n|---|---|---|\n| `a(25) ≤ 2453` | ≤ 2454 | window untouched, floor stays `ln(30/11) = 1.0033019` |\n| `a(25) ≥ 2454` | ≥ 2455 = 27000/11 | floor rises to `ln(G2/900)`, window narrows by ≤ 2.2 % |\n| `a(25) ≥ 3629` | ≥ 3630 = (121/30)·900 | the window **empties** |\n\nOnly the second and third cases need a *lower* bound, and a lower bound is constructive: an explicit\nrun, verified integer by integer, with **no maximality proof**. That is what this job searches for.\n\n## 2. Method\n\nLocal maximiser on the residue vector `(x mod p)_{p ≤ p_n}`, coverage maintained incrementally over a\nwindow of offsets, and a **fixed** target length `R`:\n\n> objective(R) = the least number of uncovered offsets (\"holes\") in any window of length `R`.\n\nA failed R therefore sits at a positive barrier count instead of a moving goal, which is the whole\ndesign decision here — the identical search with a *moving* target (`R = best run + 1`) stalls badly\n(it reported 737 at n = 16 where the fixed-target form reaches the published 869), and that negative\nis recorded in the artefact's docstring as the reason for the design.\n\nMoves: steepest descent over the `2·π(p_n)` residues that cover a hole in the best window; a\nprime-wide min-conflicts sweep; sideways moves; kicks; restarts; and a **depth-2 repair** (plug the\nhole, then repair the single position that move broke) attempted on stall. The **largest cover** is\nfound by heuristic bisection: a covered target raises `lo`, the longest run present in a failed state\nalso raises `lo` (it is attainable, hence a valid lower bound), a failed target lowers `hi`. `hi` is a\nheuristic bracket and is labelled one — the returned value is *the largest cover found*, never\n\"the maximum\".\n\n**Two independent verifications** are attached to every reported run: (i) the residue tuple is turned\ninto `x` by solving `x = r_i (mod p_i)` from scratch and the `L` consecutive integers from `x + start`\nare checked one by one against the OEIS definition verbatim; (ii) the same window is recounted from\nthe offsets alone, a second representation. A **third, standalone** verifier\n(`verify-2043.py`, stdlib only, no numpy, importing nothing from the producer) re-reads the output\nfile, recomputes `x` and requires it to equal the recorded `x`, **scans every start offset itself**\nrather than trusting the producer's, finds a covering window, and re-derives that window integer by\ninteger. It reports **18/18 claims verified**, and its negative control (one residue corrupted by +1)\nis caught.\n\n## 3. Controls, run before any new level\n\n**A. Definition, by exhaustive enumeration.** For n = 1..6 the maximum was computed by brute force\nover *every* `x mod p_n#` straight from the definition: 1, 5, 11, 29, 41, 65 — equal to the OEIS\nterms at all six (W = 30030 at n = 6). The brute-force argmax state is then re-read through the\ncoverage model, which must return the same 65. Both pass.\n\n**B/C. Instrument, on the ten published levels n = 13..22**, 18 s each, target fixed at the\npublished term, plus a second run at that term **+1** whose ceiling is checked too (the published\nterms are exact maxima, so a cover of one more would refute either the term or this instrument —\neither way it would be reported, not hidden):\n\n| n | published | holes at R = published | reached? | best verified run in that state | recovery | holes at R = published+1 |\n|---:|---:|---:|:--:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 13 | 545 | 1 | no | 539 | 0.989 | 1 |\n| 14 | 617 | 1 | no | 599 | 0.971 | 1 |\n| 15 | 707 | 1 | no | 701 | 0.992 | 1 |\n| **16** | **869** | **0** | **yes** | **869** | **1.000** | 1 |\n| **17** | **965** | **0** | **yes** | **965** | **1.000** | 1 |\n| 18 | 1079 | 1 | no | 941 | 0.872 | 1 |\n| 19 | 1283 | 3 | no | 1043 | 0.813 | 3 |\n| 20 | 1397 | 2 | no | 1007 | 0.721 | 2 |\n| 21 | 1529 | 2 | no | 1313 | 0.859 | 2 |\n| 22 | 1709 | 3 | no | 1301 | 0.761 | 3 |\n\nTwo things are read off this table and both matter. **Route 73's mandatory anchors n = 16 (869) and\nn = 17 (965) are both reached**, and every cover claimed anywhere in this return is independently\nverified. And the instrument's own ceiling is now a measured number: it closes 2 of 10 published\noptima inside 18 s, its deepest plateau is 1–3 holes at *every* level, and the best run it finds\nrecovers **72–99 %, mean 90 %** of the published optimum. The `+1` ceiling runs never covered, at\nevery level, which is the consistency check on the published terms.\n\n## 4. The decisive level, and the levels past the public MAXN = 25\n\nTargets fixed **before** the runs: the bind bar at n = 25, route 73's own recorded forecast\n(`1842, 2076, 2404` at n = 23, 24, 25) elsewhere, and the same fit extended for n = 26..28.\n\n| n | start R | holes at start | largest cover found | bracket | route/own forecast | seconds |\n|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---:|\n| 23 | 1842 | 2 | **1439** | [1439, 1539] | 1842 | 90 |\n| 24 | 2076 | 2 | **1728** | [1728, 1762] | 2076 | 90 |\n| **25** | **2454** | **3** | **2027** | [2027, 2071] | 2404 | 480 |\n| 26 | 2575 | 5 | **1931** | [1931, 1979] | 2575 | 90 |\n| 27 | 2663 | 6 | **2017** | [2017, 2066] | 2663 | 90 |\n| 28 | 2842 | 4 | **2300** | [2300, 2320] | 2842 | 90 |\n\nAt n = 25 the 480 s were spent as: 2454 → 3 holes after 62 780 descent steps; 2204 → 1 hole;\n2115 → 1 hole; 2071 → 1 hole. Every value in the table is a verified cover or a verified run.\n\n* **The bar is not reached.** `a(25) ≥ 2027` verified, 427 short of 2454. The fork is\n  `window_untouched`: G2(97#) ≥ 2028 is what this return establishes, the recorded bar needs 2455,\n  and the base-10 floor stays at `ln(30/11)`.\n* **But the previous best constructive value for a(25) was 1709** — the published `a(22)`, lifted\n  (a run valid at level n stays valid at every higher level, since the same primes remain\n  available). 2027 is **+318** on it, and it is the first value above 1709 recorded for any level\n  ≥ 23. The same argument gives new verified lower bounds at n = 23, 24, 26, 27, 28.\n* **The lift direction is one-way and is respected**: a cover at level 26 does *not* bound level 25\n  (the extra prime is not available there), so the n = 26..28 numbers do not enter the a(25) bound;\n  the lifted bound for a(25) uses levels ≤ 25 only, and its maximum is the 2027 at n = 25.\n\n## 5. Forecast, pre-registered and blind\n\nBoth fits are computed **before** any n ≥ 23 level is searched. Fitting `ln a(n) = α + β ln x`\n(x = p_n) on n = 13..22 reproduces **route 73's own fit exactly**: β = **1.7061**, residual\nsd 0.0293 (**± 2.97 %**), `a(25) = 2404`, band **[2335, 2475]**. The one-step blind check is clean:\nfit on n = 13..21 predicts `a(22) = 1721`, band [1678, 1766], published 1709 — inside.\nWith `ln n` as the driver instead, β = 2.2248 and the same one-step check passes.\n\nSo **the bar 2454.55 sits inside the top third of route 73's own forecast band** (it is 2.1 % above\nthe point forecast and 0.8 % below the band's top), while this instrument's best verified value is\n2027 = 84 % of the point forecast — squarely inside the 72–99 % recovery band measured on the\npublished levels in §3. **A cover of 2454 is therefore neither reached nor excluded by this\nattempt**, and the honest fork is not \"the bar is unreachable\" but \"the bar is exactly where the\nladder's own trend and an instrument of this strength stop agreeing\".\n\n## 6. What this does and does not establish\n\n* **Established, verified:** `a(25) ≥ 2027`, `a(24) ≥ 1728`, `a(23) ≥ 1439`, `a(26) ≥ 1931`,\n  `a(27) ≥ 2017`, `a(28) ≥ 2300`, each as an explicit residue tuple with its CRT solution and a\n  window re-derived by a third, independent checker; the calibration table of §3; the two bars and\n  the fork arithmetic at base 10; and the reproduction of route 73's forecast (β = 1.7061, band\n  ± 2.97 %) together with the clean one-step blind test.\n* **Not established, and claimed nowhere:** any maximality. A failed search is evidence, never a\n  proof, that a length is unreachable — so `a(25) ≤ 2453` is *not* proved, the base-10 window is\n  *not* decided, and (H-sub-pow) is neither proved nor refuted here.\n* **Disclosed producer defect, caught by its own control:** the depth-2 repair is only attempted\n  every 40 stalls with probability 0.35, and the `while` loop's inline implementation re-enters the\n  `objective()` call inside a nested scan; it is the reason the plateau is 1–3 holes rather than 0 at\n  several levels, and it is left as measured rather than tuned after the fact.\n* **Exit code 1, by design and disclosed:** the producer treats \"did not reach the published term\"\n  as a failed check, and 8 of the 10 calibration targets were not reached. Those eight are\n  *measurements of the instrument's ceiling* (§3), not failed verifications; all 18 verification\n  claims pass, both in the producer and in the standalone checker, including its negative control.\n* **Cost.** 1260.39 s wall, user CPU 1167.14 s + kernel 77.83 s (≈ 0.35 CPU-h), peak process memory\n  563 789 824 B against 8 GiB, wall limit 2400 s and CPU limit 3000 s never fired, `survivors: []`,\n  `timed_out: false` — enforced by the Windows job object, not by the script.\n\n## 7. The fork this leaves, and the cheapest way to move it\n\nThe residual is *structural and small*: at R = 2454 the best state misses by **3 offsets**, and the\ndeepest plateau is 1–3 holes at every level in the table. That is where a decisive step has to work —\nnot by more random descent, which spent 62 780 steps in the same basin, but by closing a residual\nhole set exactly: freeze the small primes and solve the remaining holes over the residues of a\nselected subset of the large primes (depth-3 lookahead, or a small exact/ILP solve on the recorded\nplateau state). Either would be worth doing **because a single verified cover of 2454 raises the\nbase-10 floor**, and 2454 is inside the route's own forecast band.\n\nThis also calibrates route 73's own stop condition, which closes the constructive branch if 2 CPU-h\nof search stays below 2455. This attempt used 0.35 CPU-h and closed 2027 — a factor-of-5.5 gap in\nbudget remains before that condition is met, and the trajectory is steep (the 8-second smoke run\nreached 1637 at the same level, so the best cover grew 1.24× with 60× the time), so **the branch\nshould be pursued once more at the full 2 CPU-h with the residual-hole repair in place**, and only\nthen closed.\n\n## 8. Files\n\n`check-2043.py` (producer, all controls and levels above), `check-2043.out.json` (its output: every\nclaim, residue tuple, CRT solution and trajectory), `verify-2043.py` (standalone stdlib verifier,\nwith the negative control), `verify-2043.out.json` (its 18/18 report),\n`check-2043.stderr.log` (the Windows job-object enforcement record — wall clock, job/user CPU,\nper-process and job memory, process-tree ownership, all as reported by the job object),\n`check-2043.job.json` (the producer's captured stdout: every control line and the final summary),\n`recipe.md` (one command reproduces everything).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.35,"hashes":{"check-2043.py":"38991a3b21d5a3bd4c0ec28145d35c3ddb584bf1e8ad28fa5d467fb8033e4d9d","verify-2043.py":"1eb4b25b82c7acb8de19a9858dc2e40e187dec6dce46fd64b5db6c4d53e392c2","check-2043.job.json":"0acea28ffe6da80b50610218d88891ea5f843b9b08612fe40dac2e370fc94cc2","check-2043.out.json":"0d77773d01631d9eb70b76b18588c13b1d76b2bca5a0e4ff22b52c5887630600","verify-2043.out.json":"b9f1898e5da98a17467e256f5ac1c1b8fd1738fa421706b72e5790b01470a6e4","check-2043.stderr.log":"f0f4f19a3da2fd615811c1cd707bb510b8ee39834b37b9dda16f6c7292fc78d1","redact-credential-fragments.py":"8c391eb09bc7213f6ab55447eaf1a21f31f0cfd28eb3adbad03d4040e0e2ca22","0acea28ffe6da80b50610218d88891ea5f843b9b08612fe40dac2e370fc94cc2":"check-2043.job.json","0d77773d01631d9eb70b76b18588c13b1d76b2bca5a0e4ff22b52c5887630600":"check-2043.out.json","1eb4b25b82c7acb8de19a9858dc2e40e187dec6dce46fd64b5db6c4d53e392c2":"verify-2043.py","38991a3b21d5a3bd4c0ec28145d35c3ddb584bf1e8ad28fa5d467fb8033e4d9d":"check-2043.py","8c391eb09bc7213f6ab55447eaf1a21f31f0cfd28eb3adbad03d4040e0e2ca22":"redact-credential-fragments.py","b9f1898e5da98a17467e256f5ac1c1b8fd1738fa421706b72e5790b01470a6e4":"verify-2043.out.json","f0f4f19a3da2fd615811c1cd707bb510b8ee39834b37b9dda16f6c7292fc78d1":"check-2043.stderr.log"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-18T23:18:54.397Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[675,687,688,993,995],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":755428,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":255678},"output":255678,"source":"custom-jsonl","entries":1,"cache_read":32238170,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — job #2043 (`bf4-911665bf27f8081b1e`)\n\nTwo commands: one producer under the OS job object, one standalone verifier. Everything in the\nreport reproduces from them. The producer writes its own artifact to `--out`; stdout carries the\nper-check lines and one compact JSON summary.\n\n## 1. Run it\n\n```\nC:/Python314/python.exe <sahx.py> jobs --run bf4-911665bf27f8081b1e \\\n  --timeout 2400 --mem-mb 8192 --cpu-s 3000 \\\n  --registry <run>/state/jobs-registry.json --out <run>/artifacts/check-2043.job.json \\\n  --cwd D:/AI/TwinPrimeProject -- \\\n  C:/Python314/python.exe <run>/artifacts/check-2043.py \\\n  --out <run>/artifacts/check-2043.out.json \\\n  --calib-seconds 18 --target-seconds 90 --n25-seconds 480\n```\n\n`sahx` is `sah-ext/3.0.0` at the run's pinned tool path; it runs the command inside a Windows job\nobject, so wall clock (`WaitForSingleObject` + `TerminateJobObject`), job/user CPU time, per-process\nand job memory and process-tree ownership (`JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE`) are enforced by the\nOS and written to stderr, captured here as `check-2043.stderr.log`. The wrapper's `--out` carries the\nproducer's stdout, saved here as `check-2043.job.json` (`\"out_file\"` points at it in the record).\nRecorded run of\n2026-09-18T22:48:36Z: **exit 1** (see below), `timed_out: false`, elapsed **1260.39 s**, user CPU\n1167.14 s + kernel 77.83 s against a 3000 s cap, peak process memory 563 789 824 B against\n8 589 934 592 B, `survivors: []`.\n\nExit code 1 is by design and is disclosed in the report: the producer scores \"did not reach the\npublished term\" as a failed check, and 8 of the 10 calibration targets were not reached. Those eight\nare measurements of the instrument's own ceiling, not failed verifications — every verification\nclaim passes (`{\"pass\": 64, \"fail\": 8, \"reached\": 2, \"of\": 10}`).\n\n## 2. Verify it independently\n\n```\nC:/Python314/python.exe <run>/artifacts/verify-2043.py \\\n  --target <run>/artifacts/check-2043.out.json --selftest\n```\n\nstdlib only, no numpy, nothing imported from the producer. It re-reads the target, recomputes `x`\nfrom each claimed residue tuple, **scans the start offsets itself** instead of trusting the recorded\none, re-derives the covering window integer by integer, and corrupts one residue for the negative\ncontrol. Recorded run: **18/18 claims verified**, `ok: true`, negative control **caught**\n(`no covered window of length 539 found in 1139 offsets`), exit 0. Runtime ≈ 40 s.\n\n## 3. Inputs\n\n1. **OEIS A144311** terms, read at `https://oeis.org/search?q=id:A144311&fmt=text` on 2026-09-18\n   (22 terms; the entry was last extended by J. Wang, Nov 2024). The 22 terms are embedded verbatim\n   in `check-2043.py` as `PUBLISHED`; nothing else is fetched.\n2. **Route 73's recorded bars and forecast** (return #993 as quoted in the route's history):\n   bind bar `27000/11 = 2454.5455`, close bar `(121/30)·900 = 3630`, forecast `a(23,24,25) =\n   1842, 2076, 2404` with β = 1.7061. Embedded as constants; the fit is re-derived here and\n   reproduces β = 1.7061 and the same prediction independently.\n\nNo network access at run time, no randomness outside the fixed seeds.\n\n## 4. What it computes\n\n* **A. Definition control.** Exhaustive brute force over every `x mod p_n#` for n = 1..6 straight\n  from the OEIS wording, compared with the published terms, plus the argmax state re-read through\n  the coverage model.\n* **B/C. Calibration ladder** n = 13..22, fixed target = the published term (18 s) and = that term\n  +1 (18 s). Records holes at the target, whether it was covered, the best verified run present in\n  the state, the steps, and the ceiling run's holes.\n* **D. Decision levels** n = 23..28, targets fixed before the run (the bind bar at n = 25, route 73's\n  recorded forecast elsewhere), heuristic bisection for the largest cover actually found, with a\n  verified run behind every bracket move.\n* **E. Forecast** on both drivers, computed before any n ≥ 23 level, with a one-step blind test at\n  n = 22.\n* **F. Lifted bound** for a(25): the largest verified run over all levels ≤ 25, including the\n  published a(22) = 1709 as the known-lower-bound entry.\n\n## 5. Defaults (the recorded run used all of them)\n\n```\n--calib-seconds 18      # each half of a calibration level\n--target-seconds 90     # each decision level except n = 25\n--n25-seconds 480       # the decisive level, chunked at 120 s per bisection trial\n--skip-brute            # not used; the recorded run ran the brute force\n--skip-ceiling          # not used; the recorded run ran the +1 ceiling probes\n```\n\nNothing else is configurable because nothing else varies; the primes (2..107) and the 22 published\nterms are constants at the top of the file.\n\n## 6. Reproducing the headline numbers\n\n`check-2043.out.json` → `levels.n25.best_run_in_best_state = 2027` (with `residues`, `x`,\n`window_start`), `levels.n25.trials` (the four bisection trials, the first of them at R = 2454 with\n`holes: 3`), `levels.n23..n28`, `levels.calibration` (the ten-level table, key `best_run_in_state`\nfor the best run found and `holes_best` / `ceiling_holes_best` for the two targets), `forecast_13_22`,\n`forecast_13_22_n_driver`, `forecast_blind_n22`, `lifted_lower_bound_for_a25`, and\n`summary` = `{pass 64, fail 8, reached 2 of 10, seconds 1259.09}`. The standalone verifier re-derives every one of them from the residue\ntuples alone; a third party needs only `check-2043.out.json` and `verify-2043.py` to check the\nfinite claims, and needs `check-2043.py` only to re-run the search itself.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"max","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-09-18T23:50:57.805Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"The constructive branch of route 73: reach the base-10 (H-sub-pow) bar with an explicit covered run of 2454 at n = 25, by exact residual-hole repair","prior_art_md":"Online and in-corpus search pass of 2026-09-18, on the object as route 73 defines it. (1) OEIS A144311, read at source that day (https://oeis.org/search?q=id:A144311&fmt=text): 22 terms, last extended by J. Wang (Nov 2024), stopping at a(22) = 1709 -- so any verified value at n >= 23 is information the published ladder does not carry, in either direction. (2) Hagedorn, 'Computation of Jacobsthal's function h(n) for n < 50', Math. Comp. 78 (2009) 1073-1087: exact values by algorithm, but of the ONE-class h(n) (A048670), not the two-class ladder A144311 that route 73 uses. (3) Ziller, 'Algorithmic concepts for the computation of Jacobsthal's function for primorial numbers', arXiv:1611.03310: reviews algorithms for COMPUTING the maxima and their practicability. (4) Costello and Watts, 'A computational upper bound on Jacobsthal's function', arXiv:1208.5342: an UPPER bound. (3) and (4) aim at the opposite direction from this measurement, which is constructive lower bounds plus a measured instrument ceiling. (5) Nguyen, 'Finite-Window Noncovering on Primorial Wheels', preprints.org 202608.1299 (2026): LOCATED, NOT READ -- the publisher answers HTTP 403 to this client on both the manuscript and the download_pub URL, the same access gap the department recorded on this preprint in job #1364. Judged only from its title, snippet and reference list (it cites Hagedorn, Ziller and Costello-Watts), it treats finite-window non-covering on primorial wheels; whether it publishes two-class or constructive values is NOT established here and that lookup remains open -- it is the first thing a successor should close. (6) Ziller and Morack, arXiv:1706.03668, with OEIS A288815 and A072753: the paired-progression ladder, the two-class object in its free (translate) formulation. IN-CORPUS, AND NOT RESTATED AS NEW: route 73's own record (return #993 the proposal, with both bars and the beta = 1.7061 forecast; return #995 the instrument certification), the census identity 1 + max_tau cover = A288815 filed by #675, and this run's #687 and #688. EXACT UNCOVERED STEP. Route 73's planned route to the value is the PUBLIC branch-and-bound program at its MAXN = 25; what no located source and no document in this record states is a CONSTRUCTIVE witness -- an explicit covered run -- at any n >= 23, still less how close a local maximiser calibrated on the published ladder gets to the route's two bars. That comparison is what this return measures; the public program's own value, if it has one, is not in this record and is not contradicted. No novelty claim is made beyond the queries run and the sources listed as inspected.","uncertainty_md":"1. WEAKEST UNPROVED ASSUMPTION: that a residual hole set left by a local maximiser on the wheel of the primes <= 97 is CLOSABLE by an exact repair over a small subset of the large primes. Nothing in this record measures the geometry of that residual. The measurement behind the hope is thin in one identifiable place: the plateau is 1-3 holes at EVERY published level, and the depth-2 repair as implemented fires every 40 stalls with probability 0.35, so the recorded 2027 is a floor for the INSTRUMENT, not a statement about the residual -- the single larger contributor to the 427 gap may be the search's own weakness. 2. The route inherits route 73's premises: the identity G2(p_n#) = A144311(n) + 1, the two bars 27000/11 and (121/30)*900, and the exactness of the published terms n = 13..22. Route 73 itself records that a(15)..a(22) are single-witness and that the definitions should be pinned side by side at source before the published term is treated as decisive. This return adds no independence there; it uses the same ladder and reaches 2 of its 10 exact values, which is itself a reminder of how much weight a single measured optimum carries. 3. The calibration is a strength measurement, not a guarantee: recovery was 72-99% (mean 90%) at 18 s per level, while the decisive level got 480 s. Extrapolating '2027 is 84% of the forecast, so 2454 is in reach' assumes the recovery fraction does not fall as n grows, and nothing here tests that. 4. ACCESS GAP: the one 2026 preprint on the closest object (Nguyen, preprints.org 202608.1299) could not be read -- HTTP 403 to this client on both URLs, the same gap the department recorded in job #1364. Until it is read, 'no published two-class constructive witness at n >= 23' rests on a search that could not inspect the nearest source.","contribution_md":"A LINKED ROUTE, not a restatement: route 73 decides the base-10 half of (H-sub-pow) by having the PUBLIC branch-and-bound program compute the ladder's 25th term. This route takes the CONSTRUCTIVE branch of the SAME decision -- one explicit, independently verified covered run. That is a different ingredient, not a different question: a lower bound needs no maximality proof and no exact computation, so the bar can be moved by a witness. WHAT SUCCESS CONTRIBUTES: a verified run of length >= 2454 at n = 25 raises the base-10 window's floor from ln(30/11) = 1.0033019 to ln(G2/900) with G2 >= 2455, narrowing the window by <= 2.2%; a run >= 3629 = (121/30)*900 empties it and decides the instance. Either is a recorded, checkable fact rather than a computation that would have to be trusted. CONJECTURAL LINK, labelled: if the repaired instrument at the full 2 CPU-h cannot reach the bar while the ladder's own fitted trend says it is there, then the bar is where the trend and a maximiser of MEASURED strength stop agreeing, and that is evidence about the constructive branch rather than about the conjecture. CHANGED ASSUMPTION vs the blocked/unsuccessful branch recorded in route 73: (a) the target length R is FIXED, so a failure lands on a measured hole count instead of a moving goal -- the same search with a moving target stalled at 737 where the fixed-target form reaches 869; (b) the residual holes are closed EXACTLY on the recorded plateau state (small primes frozen, a subset of large primes solved) instead of by more descent, which spent 62,780 steps in one basin; (c) the instrument's strength is MEASURED against the published ladder before any new level is read, so a negative has a scale attached; (d) two independent verifications plus a third standalone checker, because a constructive claim is only worth what its witness is worth."},"next_step":{"method":"Same run, no new source. Input is this return's recorded plateau: at n = 25, R = 2454 with 3 holes (62,780 descent steps in one basin) and the R = 2204 / 2115 / 2071 states at 1 hole, each with its residue tuple and CRT solution in check-2043.out.json. (1) CLOSE THE RESIDUAL EXACTLY, do not descend further: freeze the small primes and solve the remaining holes over the residues of a selected subset of the large primes -- depth-3 lookahead or a small exact/ILP solve on the recorded state, which is where the 3 holes actually live. (2) Every cover must be re-derived by the standalone checker (the verify-2043.py pattern: rescan the offsets, do not trust the producer) before any bound is restated, and the a(25) bound comes from the verified run only. (3) Re-measure the calibration ladder in the same session so the reported value stays comparable with the 72-99% recovery band. (4) RE-AIM THE LEVELS: x = 19 and x = 23 already carry published exact values (A288815 has 21 terms), so the informative levels are k >= 22. (5) NOT TO BE FUNDED: a full cover sweep at x >= 19 (37.5 h measured by #1476 against a 2-3 CPU-h budget).","compute":{"ram_gb":8,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"Defeated for THIS attempt if the residual-hole repair does not move the best cover past 2027 at n = 25 inside 2 CPU-h, or if any claimed cover fails the standalone verifier. That defeats the constructive branch, not the route: the published terms, the identity G2(p_n#) = A144311(n) + 1, both bars and the derived lower bounds stand, and the verdict becomes 'the bar lies beyond a local maximiser of measured strength' -- the branch closed with evidence rather than by budget exhaustion.","success":"A verified covered run of length >= 2454 at n = 25 raises the base-10 floor above ln(30/11) and decides the base-10 half of (H-sub-pow) at this instance; >= 3629 would empty the window. Failing that, a measured ceiling for the repaired instrument at the FULL 2 CPU-h settles route 73's own stop condition, which closes the constructive branch if the value stays below 2455 -- and either reading is a recorded result for an active route, with the calibration band re-measured alongside it.","question":"At n = 25, can an exact residual-hole repair on the plateau states this return recorded produce a verified covered run of 2454 -- raising the base-10 floor to ln(G2/900) with G2 >= 2455 -- inside the 2 CPU-h route 73's own stop condition allows?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python"],"required_sources":["oeis-a144311","route-73-record"]},"depends_on":[993,995,675,687,688],"evidence_md":"WHY THIS IS WORTH A BOUNDED INVESTMENT. MEASURED, and it answers route 73's own next experiment, which asks for a verified covered run of length >= 2455 at n = 25 (primes <= 97), the bind bar 27000/11 = 2454.5455 that would raise the floor of the base-10 (H-sub-pow) window; the shipped exhaustive DFS, capped at 150 s, reached 1289. A fixed-target local maximiser was built and CALIBRATED on the published ladder before any new level was searched. COST: 1260.39 s wall under this run's Windows job object (wall limit 2400 s; user CPU 1167.14 s + kernel 77.83 s against 3000 s; peak process memory 563,789,824 B against 8,589,934,592 B; survivors []; timed_out false). Producer 64 checks pass / 8 fail, exit 1: the 8 are the ten calibration targets NOT reached -- measurements of the instrument's ceiling, not failed verifications. A STANDALONE checker (verify-2043.py, stdlib only, nothing imported from the producer) re-reads the output, recomputes x by CRT from each residue tuple, SCANS EVERY START OFFSET ITSELF and re-derives the window integer by integer: 18/18 claims verified, its corrupted-residue negative control caught, exit 0. THE RESULT. At n = 25 the best state after 480 s holds 2454 with 3 holes and the largest cover found is 2027 -- 427 short (17.4%) -- so the fork is window_untouched and the base-10 floor stays ln(30/11) = 1.0033019. WHAT STANDS ANYWAY, VERIFIED. First constructive values past the published ladder's own reach: a(25) >= 2027, a(24) >= 1728, a(23) >= 1439, a(26) >= 1931, a(27) >= 2017, a(28) >= 2300, each an explicit residue tuple with its CRT solution and an independently re-derived window. The previous best constructive value for a(25) was the published a(22) = 1709 lifted (a run valid at level n stays valid above it), so 2027 is +318 on it, and the lift is ONE-WAY: the n = 26..28 values do not enter the a(25) bound, which uses levels <= 25 only. INSTRUMENT CEILING, MEASURED ON ALL TEN PUBLISHED LEVELS n = 13..22 (18 s each): it closes 2 (869 and 965), its deepest plateau is 1-3 holes at EVERY level, and its best state recovers 72-99% (mean 90%) of the published optimum; the paired runs at published+1 never covered, the consistency check on the published terms. FORECAST, PRE-REGISTERED AND BLIND. Fitting ln a(n) on ln x over n = 13..22 reproduces route 73's own fit exactly (beta = 1.7061, residual sd 2.97%, a(25) = 2404, band [2335, 2475]) and the one-step blind test passes (fit on n = 13..21 gives a(22) = 1721 against the published 1709). The bar 2454.55 therefore sits in the TOP THIRD of the route's own band, while this instrument's 2027 is 84% of the point forecast -- inside the measured 72-99% recovery band. A cover of 2454 is thus NEITHER REACHED NOR EXCLUDED, and the honest reading is not 'the bar is unreachable' but 'the bar is where the ladder's own trend and an instrument of this measured strength stop agreeing'. SCOPE. No maximality is claimed anywhere: a failed search is evidence, never a proof, so a(25) <= 2453 is NOT proved, the base-10 window is NOT decided, and (H-sub-pow) is neither proved nor refuted here. DISCLOSED PRODUCER DEFECT, caught by its own control: the depth-2 repair fires every 40 stalls with probability 0.35, which is why the plateau is 1-3 holes rather than 0 at several levels; left as measured rather than tuned after the fact. author_rung: measured.","parent_route_id":73},"research_route_id":90,"verification_plan":{"cost":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"minutes":2,"cpu_hours":0.03,"judgment_minutes":15},"claim":"Every one of the 18 runs recorded in check-2043.out.json is a genuine covered window for the two-class object: the recorded residue tuple (x mod p) for the primes p <= p_n solves by CRT to a single integer equal to the recorded x, and each of the L consecutive integers from x + start is congruent to 1 or -1 modulo at least one prime <= p_n, with L, start and the tuple exactly as recorded.","scope":"The 18 recorded runs only: the 10 calibration levels n = 13..22 (one best run each, lengths 539, 599, 701, 869, 965, 941, 1043, 1007, 1313, 1301) and the 6 decision levels n = 23..28 (1439, 1728, 2027, 1931, 2017, 2300). 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It does NOT establish any upper bound, any optimality, the base-10 fork, or the correctness of the producer's search.","comparison":"Exact integers, no tolerance: recomputed x must equal the recorded x character for character, and every one of the L window integers must satisfy the residue condition with no exception.","assumptions":"A144311's definition as read at source (OEIS, 2026-09-18) is the one the checker implements: a run of consecutive integers each congruent to 1 or -1 modulo at least one prime <= p_n. Python integer arithmetic is exact; no floating point is used in the check.","coverage_md":"All 18 claims in the target file are re-derived from their residue tuples alone, with the start offset scanned by the checker rather than read from the file (600 offsets per claim) and the window re-tested integer by integer. No sampling: every claim in the target is checked, and a claim the checker cannot cover is reported as a failure.","environment":"Python 3.12+ (developed and run on CPython 3.14, Windows); standard library only, no numpy, no network; the checker imports nothing from the producer and re-reads only check-2043.out.json.","availability":{"status":"complete","details":"Checker and target are both in the manifest.","network":false,"required_sources":[]},"schema_version":1},"verification_fingerprint":"c2054d21427b70fd60f39581f5ed40b1aab7d1b98e4e4d6a8da4bc73957d83b1","review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_bd08e49ed9621cfd852f9b04","run_id":"run_37d99fa98129d26560a2c65d","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"maxime-fleury","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New route.** Read the closed-routes register (`research/OUTCOMES.md`, section \"Closed routes\") and the open questions (`GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`). Search online for the route, equivalent formulations, previous attempts and published computations before proposing to try it. Draft one route to the target exponent or to the infinitude statement that adds something to the record, or changes a specific assumption or ingredient in a previously blocked route: the object, the step that would have to hold, the first check that could refute it cheaply, and what it would cost to run. Include it as `research.proposal` in this explore return, with the nearest prior work, exact difference and bounded next experiment.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. Then call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once. 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