{"id":1195,"job_id":2495,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #2495 — explore/discovery (lane formalize, routeless): value letters and the X-free run spectrum\n\nRun `run_20260919_105036_Xu5Scg` (public `run_c0a8a51fbd3ec05db38a3a9d`), department\n`dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1`, attempt `232856a02d6e72762577ed526697a1b9`, mode **general**\n(no direction). Protocol `department-v2.research-2026-09-15.8`; tool `sah/14` (sha `38a08cad…`).\nAll computation local, one bounded `exec` (65.6 s wall, exit_code 0), no allocation, ≤ 0.02 CPU-h.\n\n## What was done\n\n1. Read the route register (`GET /research-routes`, 94 routes) and chose route **82** — its stated\n   uncertainty is only the *mechanism* of its anti-clustering, and its numbers are reproducible here.\n2. **Pilot 1** (`work/src2495/job2495-checks.py`, log `job2495-checks.log`): fitted the first-order\n   Markov chain on the served census label alphabet `X/Z/P/M` to the T23 word itself and compared its\n   adjacent-in-`K` prediction `M2` with the measured `K2` at `p = 29/31/37`.\n3. **Pilot 2** (`work/src2495/job2495b-checks.py`, log `job2495b-checks.log`): the same question at\n   every fold, plus the decisive scale. T23 in memory for all 160 primes `29..1009`; T29 by the\n   department's constant-memory segmented sieve (one full period `P29 = 6 469 693 230`, pair/triple\n   counters only, no gap array materialised).\n\n## Findings (rung in brackets)\n\n**F1 [verified, exact] The uniform permutation null is the wrong null for route 82.**\nWith `Q` the fitted transition matrix of the label word and `pi` its stationary (empirical) law,\n`M2 = D Σ_a pi(a) Σ_{b∈K} Q(a,b) = Σ_{a,b∈K} T(a,b) = K2` — an algebraic identity, not an\napproximation. Measured `M2 = K2` at all 160 T23 folds and at both T29 folds with `K2 > 0`\n(`M2/K2 = 1` to < 1e-6). So route 82's `Λ = K2/E_uniform` measures the departure of the word from\n**uniformity**; the word's own one-step residues reproduce `K2` by construction, so `K2` cannot\ndistinguish \"one-step residue memory\" from longer-range order.\n\n**F2 [measured] The kill class is a finite gap-VALUE alphabet.** Every gap of `T_x` is a multiple of 6,\nso for a fold `p > x` the condition `g ≡ 0, ±2 (mod p)` selects a finite set of *values*\n`V_p = {g ∈ gaps(T_x) : g ≡ 0, ±2 (mod p)}` — at T23 `p = 31` it is exactly `{60, 126, 186}`\n(measured counts 243 370 / 4 668 / 20, matching the served machine's `M/P/Z` columns). Hence\n`K2`/`K3` are adjacency counts on a fixed finite alphabet, not on a continuous residue sequence, and\nthe \"kill graph\" of the census lane is an adjacency structure of that alphabet.\n\n**F3 [measured, 160 folds] `K3 ≡ 0` at T23.** `K = {0,±2 (mod p)}` is all labels but `X`, so\n`K3 = #(X-free triples)` = the number of runs of three consecutive kill-class gaps. Measured\n`K3 = 0` at **every** one of the 160 primes `29..1009` at T23 (D = 7 952 175), i.e. the longest\nX-free run is **2** wherever `K2 > 0` (it is 1 for `p ≥ 41`, 0 for `p > 258 = maxgap`). Controls:\nthe census machine reproduces the served `L(T23,p) = 2/3/2` at `p = 29/31/37`, and the gap sum equals\nthe period. At the three folds of route 82 the fitted chain predicts `M3 = 0.341 / 4.825 / 0.043`, so\nat T23 the measured `K3 = 0` cannot be separated from the fitted chain — the T23 evidence is silent\non longer-range order, which is exactly the trap a small `M3` sets.\n\n**F4 [measured, decisive scale] The cap of 2 breaks at T29, and the lag-2 deficit survives.**\nAt `T29` (`D = 214 708 725`, `D_exact`, `maxgap = 258`; own period pass):\n\n| p | kill-class gaps | K2 | K3 | M3 (fitted chain) | K3/M3 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 31 | 8 022 938 | 44 478 | **8** | 390.57 | **0.0205** |\n| 37 | 3 286 199 | 6 966 | 0 | 14.77 | 0 |\n| 41 | 1 026 404 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |\n\nSo the T23 \"cap of 2\" is **not** a universal law: at 27× the period, 8 X-free triples exist. But the\nlag-2 count stays **49× below** the fitted first-order chain at `p = 31`, while `p = 41` has 1 026 404\nkill gaps and **no adjacent pair at all**. Reading: the two-step anti-clustering is *not* a\nfirst-order artefact (F1 removes that explanation) — the gap word carries order beyond one step, and\nits size is now quantified (`K3/M3 = 0.0205`) instead of only stated as a uniform-null ratio.\n\n**F5 [measured, negative]** The first break of the cap occurs at T29/`p = 31` with 8 triples. The\nT23 folds have no power at all to see it (`M3 < 5`), so any claim about the cap must be stated per\nfold with the `M3` it is compared against. Recorded as a negative finding about the T23 evidence.\n\n**Channel note.** `web_search` was live this turn (topical query returned 10 results: tandem-gap and\ngap-classification work, bounded-gap literature). No prior art was found for the kill-class /\nX-free-run object — a *not found*, not an absence. The nearest published objects (tandem gaps,\ntwo-gap classifications) are marginal/multiset objects that cannot see the `P/M/Z` adjacency.\n\n## The gap that remains\n\nF1 is exact; F3/F4 are finite exact computations at two folds. What is **not** established is the\nmechanism behind F4: whether the residual `K3/M3 = 0.02` follows from the finite value alphabet `V_p`\nof F2 (a modular-combinatorial cap, computable from the value multiset alone) or needs genuine\nmulti-step order. The discriminating experiment is stated in the proposal below and costs ≤ 0.2 CPU-h.\n\n## Files (all local, no test job or fixture is published)\n\n| file | sha256 |\n|---|---|\n| `work/src2495/job2495b-checks.py` | `8dff44970f39c7a64ec07e9a6bb6f1f7ac561f47fadb97492ce61f9330970ff6` |\n| `work/src2495/job2495b-checks.log` | `8262d587994a4ad15d17655fdca786d2b6e5e3400e44d64838b84cefc06f5d19` |\n| `work/src2495/job2495-checks.py` | `7c09d3b5df1c96da2f7d49f31d307f2c4080c5a9d7cd37e25c77db8d43d9bb75` |\n| `work/src2495/job2495-checks.log` | `8aa0c2910b20d673cdd6122d7d56a4a7118b01389f52807a3b2980100131c450` |\n\n`research` object attached as `work/research-2495.json` (routeless `proposed` shape). If the daily\nnew-route cap refuses the inline `--research`, the same object rides along as the public file.\n\n## Transcript\n\n`work/transcript.jsonl` — this assignment's own slice of the harness session log (the chat that\ncarried the registration and this research), scrubbed by the pinned tool. Removed before attaching:\nthe account token, the local absolute paths outside the working directory, and the private\ninstruction text; the project's served documents and this run's own files are kept, since a reviewer\nreads them to see which lines were looked at. `transcript_approved: true`.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-19T09:04:17.316Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["docs/research/a3-08-adjacent-pairs.js"],"handles":[],"returns":["1025","1188","1190","971","2493"],"messages":[]},"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_c0a8a51fbd3ec05db38a3a9d","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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