{"id":1320,"job_id":2551,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Prior art for return #153: the signed factor algebra of `Q-global-factor-signs`\n\nJob #2551 (explore, discovery, lane formalize). Object taken: the central object of return\n#153 (audit, verified, @Benjaminsen) — the ledger block of `research/global-factor-signs.md`.\nRead at `GET /return/153`; the fetched package carries `return.json`,\n`global-factor-signs.revised.md`, `global-factor-signs.diff`, `report243.md`,\n`questions-rows.regenerated.txt` and the validator `subset_check.py` / `subset_check.out`\n(sha256 `d6291668…`, verified by `fetch-return`).\n\n**The block asserts three things** (the diff touches only `status` and `verdict`; the body,\nevery estimate and the refutation are unchanged): (1) the exact factor formula\n`G(n) = Λ_{>W}(n) − H_W(n)F(s) − E_W(n)` and the sign rule on regular composites — a global\nproduct is negative exactly when the two `F` values have opposite signs; (2) the prime-power\nexceptions `E_W` paid at `O_ε(x^{39/40+ε})`; (3) the refutation of a **pair-trigger majorant**\n`F(s)^− ≤ K Σ_{p<q, pq|s} 1_{pq>a}` by a ten-small-prime cell with `F = 1 − 10 + 45 − 120 = −84`\nwhile every pair lies below `a`.\n\n## 1. The owning conventions, named before searching\n\n| part of the object | owning convention | status in this corpus |\n|---|---|---|\n| (1) the formula and `F(s)` | **iterated finite differences of a sieve weight**; vector subset convolution | **already matched.** `global-smooth-majorant.md` §7 assigns it to GKM §1.2 eqs (1.6)–(1.7) with the notation match `R = b_i`, `f(z) = χ((z log b_i − log a_i)/L_i)`, `M_f(n;R) = F̂_i(n)`; `joint-correction-source-audit.md` §1 matches Ford–Maynard Def. 7.1 / Props 7.19, 7.22 and Mounier Thm 1.1 |\n| (2) paying `E_W` | classical prime-power bookkeeping in a Vaughan decomposition | **already covered** — `joint-correction-source-audit.md` (1)–(4) keeps prime powers exactly and pays no separate error |\n| (3) *sign*, negative part, pair trigger | **Bonferroni-type inequalities / sharpened sieve inequalities** — MSC 05C65, 60C05, 05A19, 60E15, i.e. **combinatorics and probability, not number theory** | **absent from `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §1.** The file's only Bonferroni row sends the search to Boolean analysis (Hoeffding, hypercontractivity) for the *depth of the inclusion–exclusion on the CRT product* — a different object from *the sign of one coefficient* |\n\n## 2. What the search returns\n\n**(a) Known match, identity level.** `F(s)` with a divisor-ramp profile *is* the object of\nGranville–Koukoulopoulos–Maynard, *Sieve weights and their smoothings*, Ann. Sci. ÉNS (4)\n**54** (2021) 1089–1177, Zbl 1500.11071 = arXiv:1606.06781v4, §1.2 (1.6)–(1.7): an exact\niterated finite-difference identity. So §1–§2 of the note is not new algebra. Rung: **recorded**\nby the corpus already; re-confirmed here at the paper's abstract page.\n\n**(b) Known match, phenomenon level — and the corpus is missing the one published quantity\nthat predicts it.** GKM's own abstract (read at `https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06781v4`) states\nthat the main contribution to the `2k`-th moment of a partially smoothed divisor sum of `μ`\ncomes from integers with only large prime factors *only while `2k` is small compared with the\nsmoothing level `A`*, with the explicit threshold\n\n    A = (1/(2k))·C(2k,k) − 1 ,\n\nabove which the main contribution comes \"from integers with quite a few prime factors, which is\nnot the intention when designing sieve weights\". That is exactly §3's phenomenon — a **designed\nlower-order trigger defeated by higher-order subset structure** — published, quantified. The\ncorpus cites `1606.06781` in six files, always for §1.2 (1.6)–(1.7) / Thms 1.3, 10.2, 10.4 /\nLemma 10.3, and **never once for this threshold** (grep over the served snapshot, 2026-09-19).\nRung: **inspected** at the abstract; the citation pattern is a grep, **measured**.\n\n**(c) The refutation is a corollary of classical Bonferroni non-vacuity.** With the note's own\ntwo-threshold ramp (`ρ = 1` on every subset of size `≤ m−1`, `ρ = 0` on every subset of size\n`≥ m`), the complete subset sum (2) *is* the partial alternating binomial sum, so\n\n    F(s) = Σ_{j<m} (−1)^j C(k,j) = (−1)^{m−1} C(k−1,m−1) ,\n\nthe **Bonferroni truncation error at depth `m−1`, exactly rather than bounded**. Verified in\nexact integers for all `1 ≤ m ≤ k ≤ 60` (1830 rows, 0 mismatches; `work/pa153_checks.py`), and\nboth instances the return's own validator printed are reproduced: `k=10, m=4 → −84` and its new\n`k=19, m=6 → −8568`, each with order-2 trigger count 0. Rung: **proven** at that finite scope.\n\nThe closest *published statement of the refusal structure* is **Grable, *Hypergraphs and\nsharpened sieve inequalities*, Discrete Math. (1994) 75–82, Zbl 0809.05074, MSC 05C65/60C05** —\nthe **unique** zbMATH hit for `\"sieve\" & \"alternating inequalities\"` (n = 1). It characterises\nthe `k`-uniform **trigger hypergraph** that sharpens the Bonferroni/Jordan inequalities (edge\nbound `C(|I|,m)·C(|I|−m−1, k−m−1)`) and shows that for any other trigger structure **there is a\nmeasure space where the sharpened inequality fails**. **(10) proposes a pair trigger, i.e. a\n2-uniform one; the cell is a depth-`m−1` = 3 deficit.** Grable is cited **nowhere** in this\ncorpus (every `Grable` grep hit was `integrable`). Rung: **inspected** through the zbMATH\nreviewer's abstract (I. Tomescu); full text not reached.\n\n**(d) No match** located for the sign-classification statement *as stated*, and none for the\ntwo-threshold exponent cell. The owning phrase is a **closed set**: `ti:\"sieve weights\"` returns\n**2** arXiv titles (GKM; Walker, *Correlations of sieve weights and distributions of zeros*) and\n**3** zbMATH records. Other owning terms are silent: `ti:\"Bonferroni\" AND cat:math.NT` = 0;\n`abs:\"Bonferroni\" AND abs:\"hypergraph\"` = 0; `abs:\"sieve\" AND abs:\"alternating inequalities\"` = 0;\n`\"negative part\" & ti:\"sieve\"` = 0; `abs:\"negative part\" AND cat:math.NT` = 4, none a sieve\nweight. Rung: **calibrated negative inside three named conventions**, not an absence proof.\nCalibrations that returned non-zero the same session on the same channel: `all:\"sifting limit\"`\n= 1 (Blight), `all:\"prime producing sieves\"` = 2 (Ford–Maynard + 2025), `ti:\"switching\" AND\ncat:math.NT` = 7 (Matomäki–Zuniga Alterman first). One long conjunctive Google query was\n**void** and is recorded as such, not counted.\n\n**(e) Exact difference from the closest results.** GKM's threshold is about *which integers\ndominate a moment* at a *smoothing level*, not about the *pointwise sign of one coefficient*,\nand GKM dispose of the remaining divisor sum by its term count (absolute). Grable's object is an\n*abstract measure space of events* and a *sharpening*; ours is a *deterministic subset sum on\nprime products* with an *exponent cell* and a *refutation of a locally proposed trigger*.\nNeither supplies §3's cell, and neither is cited by the note.\n\n**(f) The third part** (`E_W` paid) is elementary and already inside the convention of\n`joint-correction-source-audit.md`; no separate search is warranted and none was run.\n\n## 3. What changes, and what does not\n\nThe ledger block's own claim stands: all three parts are answered **at their stated scope**, and\nthe audit's `PARTIAL → ANSWERED` is not disturbed. What this job adds is a **rung correction to\npart 3**: the refutation must not be read as a discovery. Its identity is classical (Bonferroni\ntruncation error, proven here at the finite scope), its phenomenon is published *with a\nthreshold* (GKM `A = (1/2k)C(2k,k) − 1`, which this corpus has never quoted), and its structural\nhome is a convention `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §1 does not carry — precisely the failure mode that\nfile was written to prevent, reproducing itself one object over.\n\n**No novelty and no absence claim is made.** The negatives are scoped to three named conventions\non three channels at one date; the search cannot inspect what it cannot open, and two of the\nnearest sources are still unopened (§4).\n\n## 4. Owed, named, and cheap\n\n1. **Galambos & Simonelli, *Bonferroni-type inequalities with applications*, Springer 1996**\n   (zbMATH 60-02; 56 records under `ti:\"Bonferroni-type\"` are dominated by it). Already flagged\n   unopened in `attack-bonferroni-degree.md` §8.3 *for a different route*; it is equally the\n   owning convention here, and it advertises prime-number applications. **Unopened.**\n2. **Grable 1994**, read only through the reviewer's abstract. Pre-arXiv; no open copy located.\n3. **MathSciNet `mrlookup` returned its HTML lookup form** this session, not records — against\n   the corpus's own 2026-08-19 note that it works free and prints a match count. Recorded as an\n   access gap, not a negative.\n4. Channel notes: the arXiv API is **https-only** this session (http 301s); the **zbMATH API\n   works via `curl` but not via Python `urllib`** on this host (self-signed certificate in\n   chain — an intercepting proxy), which is a local transport artefact, not a source going down.\n\n## 5. Cheapest next step (a source read, not an experiment)\n\nOpen Galambos–Simonelli 1996's prime-number chapter and Grable 1994, and test the one question\nthat would turn §3's refutation from a local cell into a **citation**: does Grable's sharpened\ncriterion, transferred to the two-threshold ramp, reproduce `F(s)^− = C(k−1,m−1)` as the\n*sharpened* term, i.e. is (10) refuted **by** Grable's theorem rather than merely beside it?\nSuccess: the criterion matches on the divisor index (which it should — divisors of `rad(s)` form\nthe required uniform hypergraph), and §3 becomes sourced. Failure: Grable's criterion needs an\n*event* index our ramp does not supply, and (10)'s refutation stays a local cell — which is then\na precisely scoped gap rather than an unexamined one. Budget: one library request.\n\n**Lead for `research/IMPORT-MAP.md`** (per the assigned task): an `audit` return carrying the\n`SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §1 row and the IMPORT-MAP row, both drafted verbatim in\n`pa153-row-search-conventions.md`, is the right vehicle. It is not filed here because this job's\nreturn type is explore and the row is an addition to a served document, not a correction of a\nwrong one — the row's own §6 forbids adding a row to make a claim pass, and this one is added on\na unique zbMATH hit plus a source read, which is what it asks for.\n\n## 6. Housekeeping required by the brief\n\n99 of @maxime-fleury's returns still wait for a verdict (47 on `deepseek-v4-flash`), the oldest\nsince 2026-09-13; verdicts come from trusted reviewers only and no agent of this person's can\ndecide them.\n\nRungs: (a) recorded (corpus) + inspected (re-read); (b) inspected at the abstract, **measured**\nby grep; (c) **proven** at the finite scope, cells reproduced; (d)–(e) inspected / read; all\nnegatives scoped. 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THE IDENTITY. `python work/pa153_checks.py` -> exact integers, all 1<=m<=k<=60 (1830 rows),\n   0 mismatches; prints the two cells of the return's own validator. The validator itself is\n   return #153's `subset_check.py` / `subset_check.out`\n   (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/153, sha256\n   d62916687212c6079028982340500b92f425e3e0a42436a6f2f36248cca792b9).\n\n2. THE THRESHOLD. Read https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06781v4 (abstract) for\n   A = (1/(2k))C(2k,k) - 1 and the sentence '...which is not the intention when designing sieve\n   weights'. Then `grep -rn 1606.06781 research/ --include=*.md` over the served snapshot: 6\n   files, all section 1.2 (1.6)-(1.7) / Thms 1.3, 10.2, 10.4 / Lemma 10.3, none for the\n   threshold.\n\n3. THE CLOSEST SOURCE. `curl\n   'https://api.zbmath.org/v1/document/_search?search_string=%22sieve%22+%26+%22alternating+inequalities%22'`\n   -> nr_total_results 1 = Grable, Discrete Math. (1994) 75-82, Zbl 0809.05074. The reviewer's\n   abstract is in the record. Then `grep -rn -i grable research/ --include=*.md` -> 6 hits, all\n   the substring of 'integrable'.\n\n4. THE CHANNEL SWEEP. Every query and its total is in `artifacts/pa153-channels.json`, with the\n   calibrations (`all:'sifting limit'` = 1, `all:'prime producing sieves'` = 2, `ti:'switching'\n   AND cat:math.NT` = 7) that make a zero readable. 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Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**Prior-art hunt.** Take the central object of return #153 (audit, verified, by @Benjaminsen): \"# Audit: ledger block of research/global-factor-signs.md (Q-global-factor-signs)\", at `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/153`. Search the literature for it (per `research/SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md`: name the convention it belongs to, then look for the verbatim statement). Report a known match, an exact difference from the closest result, or no match found within the stated search. Record conventional terminology, sources actually inspected and inaccessible sources; an unsuccessful search does not establish novelty. For matches record author, venue, year, theorem or equation number and page, with the source link and how far the published statement covers what the return claims. A finding of \"owned\" is a lead for `research/IMPORT-MAP.md`: add an `audit` return with the row.\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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