{"id":1248,"job_id":2540,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #2540 — a new order-sensitive statistic, and its pre-registered refutation as a fold carrier\n\nRun `run_20260919_130812_eKviCg`, attempt `8ac427d17e86b68db39ae379e3084d80`, session\n`f69c00e5e30986001eb39834`, department `dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1`, general mode, **1 of 1**,\nrouteless explore / discovery, lane formalize. Server expiry 2026-09-19T13:08:12Z; submitted on the\nFreebuff session clock (deadline 11:50:40Z). Model `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`, `X-Effort:\nunmeasured` (no effort/reasoning field for the active template `base3-free-deepseek-flash`;\nsources in `state/identity/run_20260919_130812_eKviCg.json`).\n\n## Gate before work\n\n`outstanding` → **1 of 183** (only the long-explained standing #1685 artifact, `state/OUTSTANDING-\n1685.md`); `state/HANDOFF.md` read; the predecessor's own work (#1844 → return #1244) is **closed**,\nso nothing was recovered and nothing was taken on top of open work. Readiness re-run bound to this\nturn: **27/27** in 6.05 s on the unchanged pinned tool `sah/14`, sha `38a08cad…` (`state/readiness\n.json`). No live sibling processes.\n\n## The statistic\n\nRoute 71 asks whether **any** summary smaller than the oriented gap word is closed under the\nHolt–Rudd fold (`fold(w,q)`: keep the `q` lifts `v + kP` whose residue mod `q` is not `0` or `−2`,\nthen re-gap; the reviewer's word-fold, independently reproduced by #982 and verified 4/4 by #1861).\nEvery census this department has retained so far is **value-only**: `S_1` (the gap multiset) and the\nsummed `k`-decks `S_k` (window-**sum** multisets), which #1861 refuted for `k = 2,3,4` on T_7's\nmultiplicity class (59/60, 59/60, 60/60 folded pairs differ).\n\n**This job designs the first order-sensitive candidate of size `o(D)`:**\n\n> `B(w)` := the **cyclic bigram multiset** of the gap word, `{ (w_i, w_{i+1}) }` taken cyclically.\n\n`B` is invariant under rotation **and** reversal (so it is a legal carrier), and it is exactly the\npart of the word the summed `k`-decks are blind to: `S_k` sees window *sums*, never their order.\n\n**Decision it informs.** If the fold factors through `B`, route 71's closure weakens from \"the\nminimal carrier is the word\" to \"the minimal carrier is the bigram multiset\" — a strictly cheaper\ntransported state and a cheaper induction. If it does not, the gap-value direction is closed and a\nsuccessor must use **positional** (residue) information, because the fold's own definition is\npositional.\n\n## Pre-registered falsifiers (fixed in the ledger header before the run)\n\n- **F1** — `B` is refuted as a fold carrier if two members `u ≠ v` of T_7's multiplicity class, not\n  dihedrally equal, have `B(u) = B(v)` and `fold(u,11)` is **not** a rotation/reversal of `fold(v,11)`.\n- **F2** — `B` is refuted at the `B` level if such a pair has `B(fold(u,11)) ≠ B(fold(v,11))`.\n- **F3** — because the whole class shares `S_1` by construction, F1 firing implies **no function of\n  the gap multiset** determines the fold at this class.\n\n**Matched control (house style):** the class *is* the exact permutation ensemble — every ordering of\nT_7's own gap multiset with equal weight — so the class's own `B`-bucket-size distribution is the\nnull and the true tile word's bucket size is its position in it. Independent anchor: the true-chain\ncontrol `fold(T_5,7)`, `fold(T_7,11)`, `fold(T_11,13)`, `fold(T_3,5)`.\n\n## Result (rung: **measured**, exact enumeration, no sampling of the class)\n\nLedger `work/src2540/job2540-newstat.py` (sha256 `6a19cb97…`), **15/15 checks pass**, 1.67 s,\n`exit_code 0`: `job2540-newstat.log` (`9a8428ec…`), `job2540-newstat.json` (`4b6af9b9…`).\n\n| quantity | measured |\n|---|---|\n| T_7 class | 1 351 350 multiset orderings → **90 090 cyclic words** → **45 150 dihedral classes** |\n| `S_1` across the class | **1** bucket (all members share `6^3 12^8 18^2 30^2`) |\n| `B` buckets | **549** distinct `B` values; largest bucket **806**; true word's bucket **534** |\n| ambiguous `B` buckets (≥2 non-dihedral members) | **508** |\n| **F1** | **fires 120/120** folded pairs (cap 120): equal `B`, folds differ up to rotation/reversal |\n| **F2** | **fires 120/120**: `B(fold(u)) ≠ B(fold(v))` on the same pairs |\n| **F3** | holds: one `S_1` bucket, fold outputs differ inside it |\n| effect size | over a 500-word prefix: **500 distinct folded words** (454 distinct `B` images) |\n\nThe class-size check reproduces #1861's published **90 090** cyclic words exactly (`1 351 350/15`),\nand the true-chain control is **4/4** — the harness reproduces the served word-fold before it is used\nto refute anything.\n\n**Conclusion (measured).** `B` does **not** factor through the fold: fully half the class collides\nunder `B` (508 ambiguous buckets, mean bucket ≈ 82) yet the fold is nearly injective on it (500/500\ndistinct images on a 500-word prefix). So the **order-sensitive, value-based direction is closed at\nthe smallest class where the question can be asked**, exactly as the summed-deck direction was closed\nby #1861. A fold carrier, if one exists, must be **positional**: the fold deletes positions by their\nresidue mod `q`, and no statistic of the gap values alone can see that.\n\n## New route proposed (and its cheapest experiment)\n\n`work/research-2540.json` carries a routeless `proposed` object: **the fold-adapted candidate is the\ndeletion-run profile** — the multiset of run lengths of the `q`-deletion indicator\n`pos_i mod q ∈ {0, q−2}` — which is the cheapest structure *adapted to the fold's own action*, and\nthe first candidate whose definition is positional rather than value-theoretic.\n\ncheapest discriminating test (exact, no seeds): on the same two smallest classes (T_7 folded at\n`q = 11`, T_11 folded at `q = 13`), bucket the class by the deletion-run profile and test whether two\nnon-dihedral members with equal profile can have folds that differ up to rotation/reversal — the same\nF1 shape, run on ≤ 2 × 90 090 cyclic words. Cost 0.2 h, ≤ 0.05 CPU-h, no sieve rebuild.\n\n## What is *not* established\n\n- Whether **any** `o(D)` carrier exists (this job refutes two families; the route's question stays open\n  in the positive direction).\n- The refutation is at T_7's class; whether `B`-collisions persist (or intensify) at T_11's class\n  (90 090 → larger) is untested.\n- Folded words are compared up to rotation **and reversal** (dihedral), the convention #1861 used for\n  `S_k`; a stricter convention (rotation only) would only make F1 fire more often.\n- The 120-pair cap; the fold-image count is over a disclosed 500-word prefix, not the whole class.\n\n## Framework lessons (this run)\n\n1. **`itertools.permutations` on a tuple with repeated values enumerates `n!`, not the multiset\n   permutations** — 15! instead of 756 756. Version 1 of the ledger was killed by the CPU rlimit\n   (`exit_code -9`, empty log, **no number claimed**), the same failure class as gotcha 66. Use the\n   multiset recursion (`distinct_perms`, #1861) or a rotation-filtered generator; the fixed version\n   ran in **1.67 s** against 280 s of wasted CPU.\n2. **Integer-encoded canonical forms** (2-bit digits for a small class alphabet, 8-bit for folded\n   words) make a 45 150-class enumeration + bucketing + 120 folds cheap where tuple rotation sets\n   (gotcha 66) are not.\n3. The tool's `exec` JSON must be read for `exit_code` (gotcha 57): the shell reported success both\n   times; only the JSON distinguished `-9` (no output) from `0`.\n\n## Channels and obligations\n\n`web_search` was **LIVE** this turn for the topical query *and* the control (`twin primes`): the\ntopical query returned the owning reconstruction literature, notably **A. D. Scott, \"Reconstructing\nsequences\"** (cyclic-sequence reconstruction from its `k`-deck) and the **Gabrys arXiv:1701.08111**\nline already recorded by #1861 — both in the *subsequence* deck setting, an input to this route\nrather than a duplicate of it. arXiv API not queried. Usage for this attempt stays **PENDING**\n(`tokens.source: none`; this app exposes no attributable per-turn counters) — never estimated.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.08,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-19T11:17:01.900Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[],"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":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Positional summaries are the remaining fold carriers: value-only, k-deck and bigram summaries are all refuted on T_7's class","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-09-19, this run's channel LIVE: the topical query AND the control query ('twin primes') both returned organic results, so no channel failure is recorded (the arXiv API was not queried). WHAT WAS FOUND: (1) A. D. Scott, 'Reconstructing sequences', people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~scott/Papers/recseq.pdf (47 citations) - it explicitly treats reconstructing a cyclic sequence from its k-deck up to cyclic permutation; this is the owning formulation of the minimal-k question for THIS route's object. (2) R. Gabrys, 'The Hybrid k-Deck Problem: Reconstructing Sequences from Short and Long Traces', arXiv:1701.08111 - already recorded on route 71 by #1861; the owning hybrid formulation. (3) J. Chrisnata et al., 'On the number of distinct k-decks' (Adv. Math. Commun. 2023) - deck enumeration and bounds, cited by #1861. (4) A. D. Scott's cyclic-deck reconstruction again surfaced with the 'separating words / k-deck / trace reconstruction' seminar line (i2m.univ-amu.fr, 2022). NONE of these is a duplicate of this route's object: all of them use the multiset of SUBSEQUENCES of length k (positions retained, values compared), whereas route 71's summaries are value-only functions of the gap word (summed windows) or order statistics of it (this job's bigram multiset). They are therefore inputs to the route - the right place for a successor to look for a reconstruction theorem to import - not prior art that already answers it. No published range or dataset for the fold's carrier size was found; the fold is a project-specific construction (review #71 of return #23, reproduced by #982 and verified 4/4 here).","uncertainty_md":"Not established: (i) whether ANY o(D) carrier exists - this job refutes two families, it does not prove non-existence, and the route's positive branch stays open; (ii) both refutations are at the smallest class (T_7, alphabet 6/12/18/30); whether collisions persist or intensify at T_11's class (larger alphabet and D) is untested, and a cheap B-collision census there is the natural second measurement; (iii) folded words are compared up to rotation AND reversal (the dihedral convention #1861 used for S_k); under rotation-only comparison F1 would fire at least as often, so the refutation is conservative but the exact rates differ; (iv) the F1 test is capped at 120 folded pairs (120/120 fired) and the fold-image count is over a disclosed 500-word prefix of the class, not the whole class; (v) the proposed deletion-run profile is argued, not measured - it has not yet been tested for collisions, and its SIZE (number of runs, up to D) must be reported alongside its carrier behaviour, since a sub-D profile with no size bound would not answer the route's o(D) question.","contribution_md":"Route 71 asks whether a summary smaller than the oriented gap word is closed under the Holt-Rudd fold. Two families are now closed at the smallest class where the question is non-trivial (the route's D<=9 scope is the single word T_5=[6,12,12]): the summed k-deck family S_k, k<=4 (#1861, return #986: 59/60, 59/60, 60/60 folded pairs differ), and the cyclic bigram multiset B (this job: pre-registered F1 fires 120/120 on T_7's class, 508 ambiguous B buckets over 45150 dihedral classes, 500 distinct folded words over a 500-word prefix).\n\nThe refutation is exact, not sampled: T_7's multiplicity class is enumerated in full - 1351350 multiset orderings, 90090 cyclic words (reproducing #1861's published count), 45150 dihedral classes - and ALL of them share S_1 = 6^3 12^8 18^2 30^2. Therefore no function of the gap multiset determines the fold at this class (F3), and no first-order order statistic does either (B is the complete order-1 order statistic and it fails).\n\nThis route proposes the direction the evidence leaves: positional summaries. The fold itself deletes positions by their residue mod q (the classes 0 and -2 mod q, applied to the q lifts v+kP before re-gapping), so every value-theoretic summary is structurally blind to the operation that defines the fold. The cheapest fold-adapted candidate is the deletion-run profile: the multiset of run lengths of the q-deletion indicator (1 where pos_i mod q in {0, q-2}), which is rotation- and reversal-invariant and is a sub-D compression of the folded word (its gaps are runs of surviving original gaps).\n\nCheapest discriminating experiment (exact, deterministic, no seeds, no sieve rebuild): on the two smallest classes (T_7 folded at q=11 and T_11 folded at q=13), bucket the class by the deletion-run profile and test whether two non-dihedral members with equal profile can have folds that differ up to rotation/reversal - the same pre-registered F1 shape that refuted the k-deck and bigram families. Cost <= 0.05 CPU-h. Either outcome is definite: survival makes the deletion-run profile the candidate carried state (and the size o(D) question becomes the route's next measurement), refutation closes the profile family too and leaves the word itself as the minimal carrier, which is the citable version of the route's closure."},"next_step":{"method":"Enumerate the T_7 multiplicity class exactly (45150 dihedral classes, 1.7 s, reuse work/src2540/job2540-newstat.py) and the T_11 class the same way; for each non-dihedral pair with equal deletion-run profile at the fold prime (q=11 for T_7, q=13 for T_11), compute the two folds and test whether they differ up to rotation/reversal; report profile sizes (number of runs) alongside the collision and refutation counts, and the folded-image count per profile bucket.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":0.1,"cpu_hours":0.05},"failure":"At least one equal-profile pair has folds differing up to rotation/reversal: the profile family is refuted too, leaving the oriented word as the minimal carrier and producing the citable closure 'value-only, order-1 and positional run-length summaries all fail at the smallest class'.","success":"No equal-profile pair has folds differing up to rotation/reversal: the profile is a candidate carried state and becomes route 71's next measured object (then measure its size against D).","question":"Does the fold factor through the deletion-run profile, i.e. the multiset of run lengths of the q-deletion indicator (pos_i mod q in {0, q-2})?","budget_hours":0.2,"required_tools":["served-tile-fixtures","word-fold-reference-implementation","local-ledger","json-bucket-census"],"required_sources":["served-route-71-record","served-return-986","department-tile-words"]},"evidence_md":"Measured this run (run_20260919_130812_eKviCg, job #2540; ledger work/src2540/job2540-newstat.py sha256 6a19cb97..., log 9a8428ec..., json 4b6af9b9...; 15/15 checks pass, 1.67 s, exit_code 0, exec-bounded --seconds 240 --cpu-seconds 200):\n- T_7 word = [6,12,12,18,12,30,6,30,12,18,12,12,6,12,12], D=15, P=210, alphabet {6,12,18,30}; multiplicities 6:3, 12:8, 18:2, 30:2 (sum 210).\n- true-chain control 4/4: fold(T_3,5), fold(T_5,7), fold(T_7,11), fold(T_11,13) reproduce the true tile words up to rotation/reversal (reference implementations reused from run_20260918_132625_7-aiew work/src1861/job1861-checks.py, sha256 dee73c50...).\n- class enumeration exact: 1351350 multiset orderings -> 90090 cyclic words (1351350/15; #1861 published 90090) -> 45150 dihedral classes; 1 distinct S_1 across the whole class.\n- B buckets: 549 distinct cyclic-bigram multisets over 45150 dihedral classes, largest bucket 806, 508 buckets with >=2 non-dihedral members; the true T_7 word's bucket holds 534.\n- pre-registered F1 fires 120/120 folded pairs (equal B, non-dihedral, folds differ up to rotation/reversal); F2 fires 120/120 (B of the folded words differs); F3 holds: one S_1 bucket, fold outputs differ inside it.\n- effect size: over a 500-word prefix of the class, 500 distinct folded words (454 distinct B images) - the fold is nearly injective where B collides.\n- version 1 of the ledger was killed by the CPU rlimit (exit_code -9, empty log); no number from it is used. Cause: itertools.permutations on a tuple with repeated values enumerates 15! instead of 756756 multiset orderings. Published numbers reused, not re-derived: #1861's 90090 cyclic words and its S_k refutation rates.\nCross-checks against the department's censuses: none of the retained censuses (S_1, S_k, the kill-graph spectrum) can be used to decide this question, because all of them are value-only and the whole class shares S_1."},"research_route_id":99,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1","run_id":"run_7b292e0f580d057210a9be4d","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 statistic with a falsifier.** Design one finite statistic a run could actually decide something about, where the retained censuses could not: the decision it informs, a pre-registered falsifier written before any run, a matched control (random-sign, permutation or independent thinning, as the repo uses), and the scale at which the effect would be visible if present. Search online for existing statistics, datasets and computed ranges first. Reuse and cite any numbers already published. Only if the experiment answers an uncovered question and fits the compute your person offered, run the missing part in the house format (question in comments, then code) and report; otherwise return the design with the cost, so a session with the compute can run it.\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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