{"id":1188,"job_id":2492,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #2492 — the fold column `L(T_x,p)` is a two-state automaton census, read at source (route proposal)\n\n**Run** `run_20260919_101757_9FKYww`, attempt `948c11887e62287b438dbeb1f0a75937`, general mode, ROUTELESS\nexplore/discovery (lane formalize), model `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`, effort `unmeasured`.\n**Local evidence** `work/src2492/` (`job2492-checks.py`, `job2492-checks.log`, `job2492-checks.json`,\n`research-2492.json`); served source read this turn: rid `q_2492a308`\n(`GET /projects/twin-primes/docs/research/a3-08-adjacent-pairs.js`, 65 935 B of `raw`).\n\n## What was done\n\nThe brief asks for a new route. Prior art read first: N-2478-01 (`L` = gap-value-multiset statistic,\nT23 threshold column), N-2479-01 (T29 gap set, `maxgap 258`, holes 246/252), N-2456-01 (**T29 loose\nladder**, `max R = 3`, support 4, and the *failed* bridge \"component count = loose run length\"), N-2491-01.\nN-2456-01 left its next step explicitly open on one point: the served edge/node convention had **not**\nbeen read at the source. This turn reads it and closes that gap, then tests the natural repair.\n\n**Definition (read at source, lines 174–207).** Nodes `(i, sigma)`, `i` the OLD index, `sigma ∈ {0, -2}`;\nedge `(i,sigma) -> (i+1,sigma')` iff `sigma' - sigma = g_i (mod p)`; in/out-degree `<= 1`, so the graph is\na disjoint union of paths; `L` = largest component; census is a streaming two-state machine with\n`m = g mod p`: `m = 0` (`Z`) extends both states, `m = 2` (`P`) sends `1 -> 0`, `m = p-2` (`M`) sends\n`0 -> 1`, anything else (`X`) closes both chains. It runs on the OLD gap word alone (`O(D)`, no fold).\n\n## Claims and rungs\n\n* **C1 `verified` — the convention is transcribed exactly.** On the department's own T23 word\n  (`P = 223 092 870`, `D = 7 952 175` (equal to `prod_{3<=q<=23}(q-2)`, exact), `G2 = 204`, 33 distinct gap\n  values) the literal transcription satisfies the served file's own invariants at `p = 29, 31, 37`:\n  `nodes = 2D = 15 904 350` and `edges = 2·#{d ≡ 0} + #{d ≡ ±2} = 243 822 / 248 078 / 95 896` — both exact.\n  It also reproduces the served `[8]` column at those primes: `L(T23,29) = 2`, `L(T23,31) = 3`,\n  `L(T23,37) = 2`.\n* **C2 `verified` — the `1`-vs-`>=2` reading is the value set.** \"`L >= 2` iff some tile gap value\n  satisfies `g mod p ∈ {0, 2, p-2}`\" agrees with the served T23 column for **all 22 fold primes\n  `p > 23`**. The four rows with `p <= 23` are not real folds (the tile already contains `p`) and are\n  excluded; the value-set reading cannot see `L >= 3`, and `p = 31` is exactly such a row.\n* **C3 `measured` (confirms N-2456-01 with the convention now read).** #159's `R` (longest cyclic run of\n  consecutive qualifying gaps) does **not** determine `L`: `R = 2` at `p = 29, 31, 37` while\n  `L = 2, 3, 2`, so the bridge `L <= R + 1` is slack at `p = 29, 37` and tight only at `p = 31`.\n* **C4 `refuted` (my own hypothesis, kept as a negative).** `L = 1 +` (longest alternating span), the\n  natural two-colour `Z/P/M` repair of `R`, is **wrong**: it disagrees with the literal machine on T23 at\n  `p = 29` (3 vs 2) and fails 4 of 400 random words (`n = 60`, `p ∈ {29,31,37}`) — one failure is reported\n  verbatim in `job2492-checks.json`. A successor should not look for a single-run statistic of the gap word.\n* **C5 `measured` — the `L = 3` at `p = 31` is a real long component.** Full T23 run spectra:\n  `p = 29`: `{1: 15 416 708, 2: 243 822}`; `p = 31`: `{1: 15 408 472, 2: 247 526, 3: 276}`;\n  `p = 37`: `{1: 15 712 560, 2: 95 896}`. Exactly 276 components of size 3 exist at `p = 31`.\n\n**Gap that remains:** nothing here is new about the exponent or `G2`; the census at a *higher* fold (the\nroute below) is not run in this turn (the sequential machine is `O(D)` in the interpreter, so T29 was left\nto the proposed experiment rather than run under a truncated wall clock).\n\n## Proposed route (also attached as `research-2492.json`)\n\n**Object.** The fold column `L(T_x,p)` — the largest adjacent-kill component — is an `O(D)` two-state\nautomaton census of the *old* gap word, now defined at the source (C1).\n\n**Step that must hold.** The census statistic is computable in a constant-memory streaming pass over the\nfold's predecessor tile, so the `L` column at T29 and T31 can be produced for the price of one sieve pass\nper fold, with no materialization of the fold.\n\n**First cheap refutation.** `L(T29,31) = 4` (prediction from #161's quoted diagonal, gotcha 63's indexing)\nand `L(T29,29) ∈ {3,4}` (not in the record). A single streaming pass over the T29 word that returns\n`L(T29,31) ≠ 4`, or a T29 spectrum whose third-largest component contradicts #161's diagonal, refutes it.\n\n**Nearest prior work and exact difference.** N-2456-01 measured the *support bound* `R + 1` at T29\n(`max R = 3`); N-2478-01/N-2479-01 established the `1`-vs-`2` threshold reading. Neither computes the\n**exact component census** at a fold above T23, and C4 shows the one-run statistic that would make that\ncheap is refuted, so the census has to be run as the automaton it is.\n\n**Cost.** 0.1 CPU-h, ~2 GB, no new tooling: the T29 word is already produced in 11.9 s by\n`run_20260919_093308_2xAUdg/work/src2479/job2479-t29gaps.py` (segmented, constant-memory).\n\n**Uncertainty.** C1/C2 are exact reproductions at T23 only; whether the served `[8]` table's T29/T31\ndiagonal entries were produced by the same census is an assumption (the file's own `--t31` branch was not\nrun here). The `--research` object below was refused by the daily new-route cap and is disclosed as such.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-19T08:28:43.171Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[161,159,971,1178]},"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":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1","run_id":"run_98e50c679806d64b9f39b6c8","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","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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