{"id":1327,"job_id":2677,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Triage of route 109 — job #2677\n\n**Outcome: `promising`, with a distinct and cheaper next step than the route's own.**\nThis is an investment decision, not a proof and not a repetition of published computations. No\nnumber from the route's measurements was recomputed here; no published number is regenerated.\n\n---\n\n## 0. The handback reason on this job does not apply to this lane\n\nThe brief carries: *\"Handed back 1 time(s) before (last: released: this is the triage of route 109,\nwhich @natepac proposed in return #1324 minutes ago; **a triage by the proposer is not an\nindependent investment decision and needs another handle**)\"*. Route 109's proposer is\n`@natepac` (return #1324); this lane is `maxime-fleury`. **The reason is correct in general and\ninapplicable here** — this handle is not the proposer, which is exactly the independence the\nrelease asked for. Same defect family as the stale quota reason recorded on job #2552 earlier this\nsession (ledger 2026-09-19): a served handback note that asserts something about a lane it no\nlonger holds. Checked before any research step, as the framework section requires.\n\n---\n\n## 1. What the route asks, in one line\n\nA measured shortfall of the large-prime under-dispersion — the realised second moment of twin\ncounts in windows of length `H` sits 5 % (`H = 2310`) to 15–19 % (`H = 30030`) below the\nconjecture's leading-order prediction at `x = 19, 23, 29` (`X` from `10^7` to `2·10^10`) — is asked\nto have a **law**: does it fall like `1/ln X` and is it reproduced by replacing the leading\ndensities `2C_2/ln^2 n` and `S_4(h)/ln^4 n` by their integral forms with lower-order terms?\n\n## 2. What the search found, and what it changes\n\n**PUBLISHED, read at the source this session.**\n\n* **Lemke Oliver & Soundararajan**, *Unexpected biases in the distribution of consecutive primes*,\n  PNAS **113**:31 (2016) E4446–E4454 = arXiv:1603.03720. Read from the arXiv PDF: their **Main\n  Conjecture** is `pi(x;q,a) = (li(x)/phi(q)^r)(1 + c_1(q;a)·loglog x/log x + c_2(q;a)/log x +\n  O((log x)^{-7/4}))`, with the surrounding prose \"*there are large secondary terms in the\n  asymptotic formula which create biases ... but there are also **lower order terms that do not\n  have an easy description***\". Decisive for this triage, they state the lower-order law as an\n  **open** expectation: \"*We believe that when `k` is odd, the work of Montgomery and\n  Soundararajan can be refined and the actual size of the sum in (2.2) is\n  `h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}`. **We will pursue this in future work.***\"\n* **Vivian Kuperberg**, *Odd moments in the distribution of primes*, **Algebra & Number Theory\n  19**:4 (2025) 617–672, DOI 10.2140/ant.2025.19.617. Read from the MSP issue PDF (article PDF\n  pp. 617–618 and its section list, plus its references and the §5 discussion reachable from the\n  full issue file). She states Montgomery–Soundararajan's input as\n  `R_k(h) = mu_k(-h log h + Ah)^{k/2} + O_k(h^{k/2 - 1/(7k) + eps})`, then: \"*We study **lower-order\n  terms** in the size of these moments. We conjecture that when `k` is odd,\n  `R_k(h) ≍ h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}`.*\" — **Conjecture 1.1**, attributed to LOS 2016 —\n  proving an upper bound with the correct power of `h` at `k = 3`, function-field analogues at\n  `k = 3, 5`, and **numerical evidence (her §5)**, including an experimental fit\n  `A = 0.373727` for `(1/6)R_3(h) ≈ A·h(log h)^2` with visible lower-order fluctuations.\n\n**DERIVED here, from what those two state** (label: derived, on quoted expansions — I did **not**\nopen Montgomery–Soundararajan at the source):\n\nThe relevant object in this route is the **four**-term singular-series sum, `k = 4`, i.e. **even**.\nFor even `k` the Gaussian leading term does **not** cancel, so the next term in\n`mu_k(-h log h + Ah)^{k/2}` is a *relative* correction of size `A/log h` — the same shape the\nroute's proposed \"integral forms\" would produce. For **odd** `k` the Gaussian term *vanishes*\n(`mu_k = 0`), the true size is the conjectured `h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}`, and that is the open\nobject. So the route's proposed prediction and the published open conjecture are **different\nterms of the same expansion**, and they are separable:\n\n> **mapping.** route 109's \"secondary-term prediction\" = the even-`k` (`1/log h`-relative) term,\n> which is *derivable*; the *residual* after it = the odd-`k` term of LOS 2016 Conjecture /\n> Kuperberg 2025 Conjecture 1.1, which is *open* and has a **named home in the literature**.\n\nThat is what makes this route investable rather than merely descriptive: a match or a mismatch of\nthe measured shortfall is a statement about a conjectured, published quantity, not a curve fit.\n\n**What the search did NOT find (and this is the exact uncovered step).** No source states the `X`-\nor `H`-**law of the measured shortfall of the twin-count second moment**, and no source gives the\nfour-term integral-form prediction compared against data. `Kuperberg 2025` studies the *same kind\nof correction* on the *other* object (prime counts in short intervals, `psi(x+H) - psi(x)`, and the\nfunction-field analogue), and states the odd-`k` law as a conjecture she does not prove. So:\n**not `known`** — prior work does not cover the proposed contribution — and not `blocked`.\n\n**Located, not read at page** (recorded as such, not counted as evidence): *Distribution of Large\nGaps Between Primes*, arXiv:1802.07609, whose snippet states \"*The conjecture for pairs (or\n2-tuples) with a strong error term is well-known to provide the same estimates for the second\nmoment for primes in short intervals*\" — the standard bridge from the pair conjecture with a strong\nerror term to a second-moment statement, which is route 109's premise; and Montgomery–Soundararajan,\n*Beyond pair correlation* (2002), and *The distribution of primes in short intervals* (2004),\nquoted through the two papers above and **not opened at the source**. Access gaps are stated on the\nreturn rather than papered over.\n\n## 3. Assumption mapping — where the borrowed method meets this target\n\n| borrowed setting (M–S, LOS, Kuperberg) | route 109's target |\n|---|---|\n| `psi(x+H) - psi(x)`, all `k`-tuples, weighted prime counts | twin counts only (`2`-tuples), window length `H`, tile removed |\n| `R_k(h)`, sum of `k`-term singular series over `D ⊂ [1,h]` | `S_4(h)` inside the 4-tuple density `S_4(h)/ln^4 n` |\n| variance `~ H log(N/H)` unconditional | conditional second moment, tile part *exact* (#1319), `lambda` measured |\n| odd `k` term conjectured (LOS / Kuperberg Conj. 1.1) | the residual after the even-`k` correction — same open object |\n\n**The weakest borrowed assumption**, stated plainly: the odd-`k` law is a *conjecture supported by\nnumerics*, so a residual that matches it confirms consistency, not the k-tuple conjecture. This is\na limit of what the route can certify, not an objection to running it.\n\n## 4. Recommendation and the smaller experiment\n\n**`promising`.** Two grounds, both specific: (i) the route's own prediction is *derivable* —\nthe even-`k` lower-order term is the `A/log h`-relative correction from M–S's quoted expansion —\nso the route can be tested without inventing a new heuristic; (ii) the residual is the object of a\n**published open conjecture** (LOS 2016's \"we will pursue this in future work\"; Kuperberg 2025's\nConjecture 1.1 with an explicit numerical constant `0.373727` for the `k = 3` analogue), so the\nroute has a literature home and a falsifier.\n\n**The smallest experiment is smaller than the route's own proposal.** The route proposes sieving to\n`10^11` (its own estimate: about 20 minutes) to add a third `X`-range. That is affordable but not\nthe cheapest first test: the *derivation and comparison at the three levels already measured*\n(`x = 19, 23, 29`, the `shortfall2554.json` table of #1322) needs **no new sieve at all**. If the\nintegral forms account for a stated fraction of every existing shortfall, the route's mechanism is\nconfirmed and the new range is the confirmation step; if they move the shortfalls by less than the\nbootstrap widths, or in the wrong direction, the route's own falsifier has already fired on data in\nhand and the expensive range should not be bought.\n\n## 5. Rungs, and what this return does not do\n\n| claim | rung |\n|---|---|\n| the route's measurements (`#1302/#1309/#1322`, 5–19 %, `z` up to 8.9) | **MEASURED** per the brief; **not re-run here** |\n| LOS's Main Conjecture and its odd-`k` sentence; Kuperberg's Conjecture 1.1, `k=3` theorem, function-field `k=3,5`, numerics | **PUBLISHED**, read at the source (arXiv PDF; ANT 19:4 issue PDF) |\n| M–S's `R_k(h)` expansion and its error term | **PUBLISHED**, quoted second-hand through the two above; **not read at the source** |\n| the even-`k` vs odd-`k` separation and the mapping table | **DERIVED here**, from the quoted expansions, conditional on the second-hand quotation |\n| that the integral forms explain the shortfall | **OPEN** — this is what the next step tests |\n\n**Does not do:** no claim on twin primes, no law asserted, no published number regenerated, no\nroute declared proved, and no judgement on whether the route's own `10^11` range is worth buying\nbefore the cheap step is done.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.6,"hashes":{"make_research2677.py":"9ee5c547bf513c23dfd7a61f05bbab3b938d02e89f24c2faa9dfca2554045cd5","report-triage109-2677.md":"ccf84fd0f8f4f0d9703d9c5e2f306f41882de85e2c33c16834dbdbe343c31f88","9ee5c547bf513c23dfd7a61f05bbab3b938d02e89f24c2faa9dfca2554045cd5":"make_research2677.py","ccf84fd0f8f4f0d9703d9c5e2f306f41882de85e2c33c16834dbdbe343c31f88":"report-triage109-2677.md"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-19T19:06:48.875Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["research/OUTCOMES.md"],"handles":["natepac"],"returns":[1324,1322,1319],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"already_counted":{"of":1,"on":["return #1325"],"entries":1},"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"REPRODUCE (all read-only; no served file is modified).\n\n1. THE ROUTE. GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/109 and return\n   #1324 (the proposal); return #1322 carries the measured shortfall table shortfall2554.json.\n\n2. THE CLOSEST SOURCE, READ AT PAGE. Kuperberg, 'Odd moments in the distribution of primes',\n   Algebra & Number Theory 19:4 (2025) 617-672, DOI 10.2140/ant.2025.19.617. The MSP issue PDF\n   https://msp.org/ant/2025/19-4/ant-v19-n4-p.pdf (222 pp) extracts with pypdf; the article begins\n   at issue page 617 (PDF index 2). Conjecture 1.1, the k = 3 upper bound, the function-field\n   k = 3, 5 results, the section 5 numerics and the constant A = 0.373727 are on those pages.\n\n3. THE OPEN STATEMENT IT ATTRIBUTES. LOS 2016 = arXiv:1603.03720 (PNAS 113:31 (2016) E4446-E4454):\n   fetch the PDF and search for 'lower order' and 'odd' -- the Main Conjecture, the 'lower order\n   terms that do not have an easy description', and 'We believe that when k is odd, ... the actual\n   size of the sum in (2.2) is h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}. We will pursue this in future work.'\n\n4. THE MAPPING. Route 109's S_4(h) is the k = 4 (even) singular-series sum. Even k keeps the\n   Gaussian leading term, so its next term is the relative A/log h correction the route's integral\n   forms produce; odd k cancels and is the open conjectured power. That separation is the triage\n   finding.\n\n5. THE SMALLER EXPERIMENT. No new sieve: compute the integral-form prediction on the windows of\n   #1322 at x = 19, 23, 29 and compare against shortfall2554.json's realised offsets and bootstrap\n   bands. Only a residual larger than the bands justifies buying the route's 10^10-10^11 range.","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":"2026-09-19T19:10:54.555Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":109,"next_step":{"method":"No new sieve. Reuse #1322's measured shortfalls and window data (shortfall2554.json) and the same code path (rcond2550.py's statistic), and compute the integral-form prediction on the same windows: per window, replace 2C_2/ln^2 X by the exact integral of 2C_2/(ln n ln(n+2)) over the window, and S_4(h)/ln^4 X by the corresponding product of four logarithms evaluated per window; sum, and report the predicted offset against the realised one at each (x, H) cell with the existing bootstrap bands.\n\nThen, and only then, characterise the residual against the published shapes rather than fitting a free law: the even-k Gaussian correction is a RELATIVE term of size A/log h from Montgomery-Soundararajan's quoted expansion (the expansion is quoted through LOS and Kuperberg, not read at the source), and the odd-k term is the conjectured h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2} of LOS 2016 / Kuperberg 2025 Conjecture 1.1. Test whether the residual is monotone in X as 1/ln X (the route's own falsifier) and whether it is consistent with the published power, using Kuperberg's k = 3 analogue constant A = 0.373727 only as an order-of-magnitude reference, never as a fitted value.\n\nOnly if the integral forms leave a residual larger than the bands should the route's own 10^10-10^11 range be bought as the confirmation step (its estimate: about 20 min of sieving, 1 cpu-hour). The order matters: the derivation is what the route must deliver, and it is cheaper than the data it is meant to explain.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.5},"failure":"The integral forms move the shortfalls by less than the bootstrap widths, or in the wrong direction, or move H = 2310 and H = 30030 oppositely. Then the shortfall is not the conjecture's secondary-term effect at these scales: report it as a MEASURED deviation of stated size with no law claimed, name the decomposition assumption (conditional mean linear in the tile count) as the alternative to test next, and do not buy the 10^11 sieve. A residual that matches the odd-k conjecture confirms consistency only, never the k-tuple conjecture.","success":"The integral forms account for a STATED fraction of every existing shortfall (the same sign and a comparable size at each of x = 19, 23, 29 and both H), with the residual monotone in the published shape. Then the secondary-term mechanism is confirmed on data in hand and the 10^10-10^11 range is worth buying as confirmation.","question":"Do the integral forms -- replacing 2C_2/ln^2 X by the per-window integral of 2C_2/(ln n ln(n+2)) and S_4(h)/ln^4 X by the product of four logarithms -- account for the measured shortfalls at the three levels ALREADY measured (x = 19, 23, 29, both H = 2310 and 30030), to within their bootstrap bands?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3","numpy"],"required_sources":["return-1322"]},"depends_on":[1322],"evidence_md":"The route's own prediction is testable without inventing a heuristic, and its residual has a published home. Read at the source this session: Lemke Oliver-Soundararajan (PNAS 113:31 (2016) E4446-E4454 = arXiv:1603.03720) state their Main Conjecture with secondary terms and 'lower order terms that do not have an easy description', and then state the lower-order law as an OPEN expectation -- 'We believe that when k is odd, ... the actual size of the sum in (2.2) is h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}. We will pursue this in future work.' Kuperberg, 'Odd moments in the distribution of primes', Algebra & Number Theory 19:4 (2025) 617-672 (DOI 10.2140/ant.2025.19.617), studies exactly that object: Montgomery-Soundararajan's R_k(h) = mu_k(-h log h + Ah)^{k/2} + O_k(h^{k/2-1/(7k)+eps}), then 'We study lower-order terms in the size of these moments. We conjecture that when k is odd, R_k(h) ~ h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}' (Conjecture 1.1, attributed to LOS 2016), with an upper bound carrying the correct power of h at k = 3, function-field analogues at k = 3 and 5, and numerical evidence including an experimental constant A = 0.373727 for (1/6)R_3(h) ~ A h (log h)^2.\n\nWhat that changes for this route: the object inside the route's S_4(h) is the k = 4 (EVEN) singular-series sum. For even k the Gaussian leading term does not cancel, so the next term of the quoted expansion is a RELATIVE correction of size A/log h -- the same shape the route's proposed integral forms produce. For odd k the Gaussian term vanishes (mu_k = 0) and the true size is the conjectured h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}, which is open. So the route's prediction and the published conjecture are different terms of one expansion and are separable: the route's own prediction is DERIVABLE, and the residual after it is the OPEN object of LOS 2016 / Kuperberg 2025 Conjecture 1.1.\n\nThat is a specific reason to invest. A match of the measured shortfall with the integral forms is a statement about a quantity the literature has a conjecture for, not a curve fit; and if the integral forms move the shortfall by less than the bootstrap widths, the route's own falsifier has fired on the data already in hand, before any sieve to 10^11 is bought. No source found states the X- or H-law of the measured shortfall of the twin-count second moment, so this is not 'known'. Two limits: the odd-k law is a conjecture supported by numerics, so a residual that matches it confirms consistency and not the k-tuple conjecture; and Montgomery-Soundararajan were not opened at the source (their expansion is quoted through LOS and Kuperberg only).","prior_art_md":"Updated online search record, 2026-09-19 ~21:00 UTC; reuse of the search of jobs #2549/#2548 and of route 109's own record.\n\nREAD AT THE SOURCE. (1) arXiv:1603.03720 = Lemke Oliver & Soundararajan, 'Unexpected biases in the distribution of consecutive primes', PNAS 113:31 (2016) E4446-E4454: PDF fetched and searched; the Main Conjecture `pi(x;q,a) = li(x)/phi(q)^r (1 + c1 loglog x/log x + c2/log x + O((log x)^{-7/4}))` and the sentence giving the odd-k expectation `h^{(k-1)/2}(log h)^{(k+1)/2}` with 'We will pursue this in future work' are on its pages. (2) Vivian Kuperberg, 'Odd moments in the distribution of primes', Algebra & Number Theory 19:4 (2025) 617-672, DOI 10.2140/ant.2025.19.617: the MSP issue PDF (msp.org/ant/2025/19-4/ant-v19-n4-p.pdf, 222 pp) was fetched and the article's abstract, introduction and contents (pp. 617-618), its section 5 discussion and its reference list were read; Conjecture 1.1, the k = 3 upper bound, the function-field k = 3, 5 results and the numerical estimate A = 0.373727 are on those pages.\n\nLOCATED, NOT READ AT PAGE. arXiv:1802.07609, 'Distribution of Large Gaps Between Primes' (snippet: 'The conjecture for pairs (or 2-tuples) with a strong error term is well-known to provide the same estimates for the second moment for primes in short intervals') -- the standard bridge supporting the route's premise; H. L. Montgomery & K. Soundararajan, 'Beyond pair correlation' (2002) and 'The distribution of primes in short intervals' (2004) -- quoted through the two papers above. Access gap, stated rather than papered over.\n\nPROJECT RECORD (per the brief, not re-run here). #1302, #1309 (unconditional second moment against leading order; residuals of the same sign at H = 30030), #1322 (the tile-conditioned measurement and the shortfall table, shortfall2554.json), #1319 (the tile identity), #1315 (the singular-series defect, a different object), route 108 (the tile/large-prime split, pending).\n\nEXACT REMAINING GAP. No source states the X- or H-law of the measured shortfall of the twin-count second moment, and none compares a four-term integral-form prediction against such data. Kuperberg 2025 studies the same KIND of correction on psi(x+H) - psi(x) and in the function-field setting, and states the odd-k law as a conjecture she does not prove. The uncovered step is therefore exactly the route's own: the finite-X law of the shortfall and its comparison with a derivable secondary-term prediction -- with the new observation that the many-tuple part of that prediction is derivable (even k) while the residual is the published open odd-k question."},"research_route_id":109,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_bd08e49ed9621cfd852f9b04","run_id":"run_dbafcb3afddae906ed1c3d4e","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"maxime-fleury","job_brief":"Search online for existing attempts, results, tables and datasets before testing feasibility. Reuse the recorded search and inspect the closest sources and weakest assumption. Use published numbers with citations; do not reproduce them in triage. Seek the smallest experiment on the uncovered step. Recommend promising only with specific evidence and a bounded next step; do not claim the route is proved. Map the assumptions of any borrowed method onto this problem.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/109 and return #1324. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 109, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. 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