{"id":1370,"job_id":2750,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# The killer marginal K*(P, R u {q}) - K*(P,R): measured ceiling, falsified bounds, and the mechanism\n\njob 2750 (route 112, attempt abb7f6055b6cb1cec0eb1c962aa9bb95) -- running return #1365's corrected\nnext step.  Every number below is reproduced by the artifacts of this return; nothing is estimated.\n\n## 1. The object, and the two things it is not\n\nOver the modulus L = P*prod(U) the *alive slots* are the n with gcd(n,P) = gcd(n+2,P) = 1.  List\nthem in increasing order; a *run* is a maximal stretch of consecutive alive slots all killed by a\nkiller set S (killed meaning n = 0 or n = -2 mod s for some s in S); K*(P,S) is the longest run.\nThis is the record's own definition, and the instrument reproduces its five published values\n(9, 8, 10, 12, 10).\n\n    A = K*(P,R)                  K = K*(P, R u {q})              marginal = K - A\n    rise = K*(P*q, R) - A        (route 112's tile-dial object; the base absorbs q)\n\nRoute 98(i) gives rise <= marginal.  Return #1365 reduced the route's whole question to the\nmarginal, and the route's own recorded range for it was **1 to 9** over 4,856 rows.  This return\nmeasures it in the two classes the old sweep could not reach, and tests bounds on it that were\nwritten down before the measurement.\n\n## 2. The requested classes: one is empty, one needs a new scan\n\n* **|R| = 5 at Mp <= 3e8**: 12 rows, all P=30 (P=210 needs Mp >= 6.47e9).  Measured.\n* **P=30030 with |R| in {3,4} at Mp <= 3e8**: **empty, arithmetically**.  30030 = 2*3*5*7*11*13, so\n  the smallest usable primes are 17,19,23,29 and the smallest |R|=3 row already has\n  Mp = 30030*17*19*23 = 6,469,693,230 (12.9 GB of flags); |R|=4 needs 2.006e11 (401 GB).  So the\n  stated cap excludes the entire class it names, and its |R|=4 half is out of reach on any machine\n  this run can use.  The |R|=3 half was reached with a new **windowed scan** (O(window) memory,\n  runs carried across window boundaries, cyclic wrap merged once), validated by requiring it to\n  reproduce all five published K* values and to agree with the direct path on the same rows.\n  The 6,469,693,230-slot object was scanned in checkpointed chunks (100% complete, K* = 10,\n  no wrap contribution: first_run 2, carry 0, 319,929,885 alive slots).\n\n## 3. Pre-registration, and its verdicts\n\n`prereg-marginal.md`, sha256 `4e3fdd14e2b2c1236bd209383611e61c47ca7154fe073960b8f96823bb42321d`,\nwritten before the new classes were measured (the only numbers it quotes are from rows already\nserved in #1365).  `verify-prereg.py` re-hashes it, re-runs the custody gates, and evaluates each\npredicate:\n\n| claim | predicate | verdict |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 monotonicity | no row with marginal < 0 | **PASS** -- 15,769 rows, minimum marginal 1 |\n| P2 strict chain form | no row with marginal <= rise | **PASS** -- 15,747 rows with rise known, 0 violations; **untested** on the 4 P=30030 |R|=3 rows (4 scans, ~29 min) |\n| P3a | marginal <= q-1, |R|=5 class | **FAIL** -- 2 of 12 rows: marginal **10** at q=7, where q-1 = 6 |\n| P3b | marginal <= q-1, P=30030 |R|=3 | **PASS** -- 0 of 4 (margin = 3 <= q-1 >= 16) |\n| P4 the A/q-scaled bounds are false | >= 1 row satisfying C1,C2,C5,C4 | **PASS** -- 0 rows satisfy all four |\n| P5 the A/q bounds fail hard | max marginal / (2*floor(A/q)+1) > 1 | **PASS** -- 7.0 |\n\nThe pre-registered falsifier for P3a fired, and that is the headline: **q-1 is not a bound**, and\nneither is any member of the recorded family.  Over the whole measured population (15,769 rows) the\ncandidate violations are: C1 floor(2A/q) 15,749; C2 floor(2A/q)+1 8,804; C5 2*floor(A/q)+1 8,812;\nC4 marginal <= A 1,869; C3 marginal <= q-1 **158** (of which the two new ones are the small-q\ncorner).  So exactly one recorded shape survives almost everywhere, and it fails exactly where the\nentering prime is small relative to the dial: the falsification is class-specific, not diffuse.\n\n## 4. Measured values\n\n**|R| = 5 at Mp <= 3e8** (fresh recomputation; A, K on complete periods):\n\n| q | R | A | K | marginal |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 7 | 11,13,17,19,23 | 9 | 19 | **10** |\n| 7 | 11,13,17,19,29 | 10 | 20 | **10** |\n| 11 | 7,13,17,19,23 | 13 | 19 | 6 |\n| 11 | 7,13,17,19,29 | 13 | 20 | 7 |\n| 13 | 7,11,17,19,23 | 14 | 19 | 5 |\n| 13 | 7,11,17,19,29 | 15 | 20 | 5 |\n| 17 | 7,11,13,19,23 | 13 | 19 | 6 |\n| 17 | 7,11,13,19,29 | 13 | 20 | 7 |\n| 19 | 7,11,13,17,23 | 14 | 19 | 5 |\n| 19 | 7,11,13,17,29 | 15 | 20 | 5 |\n| 23 | 7,11,13,17,19 | 14 | 19 | 5 |\n| 29 | 7,11,13,17,19 | 14 | 20 | 6 |\n\n**P=30030, |R| = 3** (modulus 6,469,693,230 for each; first data ever at this base):\nR = {19,23,29}, q=17: A=7, K=10, marginal 3.  R = {17,23,29}, q=19: A=7, K=10, marginal 3.\nR = {17,19,29}, q=23: A=7, K=10, marginal 3.  R = {17,19,23}, q=29: A=8, K=10, marginal 2.\n(The two |R|=2 context rows measured with them: A=4, K=7 or 8, marginals 3 and 4.)\n\nPopulation histogram of the marginal over all 15,769 rows: 1: 6,941, 2: 4,570, 3: 2,656, 4: 844,\n5: 298, 6: 286, 7: 146, 8: 13, 9: 1, 10: 4.  **Ceiling 10**, attained only at q=7 with |R|=5, so\nroute 112's recorded range \"1 to 9\" becomes **1 to 10**.\n\n## 5. Why: the marginal is a bridge, not an enlargement\n\n`marginal-witness.py` locates the maximal U-killed run and decomposes that exact window (it\nself-checks against the instrument's K* and exits non-zero if they differ).  For the two violating\nrows:\n\n* U = {7,11,13,17,19,23}, q=7: K*=19, A=9, marginal 10.  The 19-run sits at alive positions\n  2,164,799..2,164,817 (slots 21,647,999..21,648,179).  Under R alone that same window contains\n  **6 separate runs** of lengths 3,2,1,1,1,1; q=7 supplies 5 of the 19 slots and glues the six\n  fragments into one run.\n* U = {7,11,13,17,19,29}, q=7: K*=20, A=10, marginal 10.  Window of 20 at slots\n  25,220,897..25,221,089: under R alone **5 runs** (4,3,1,1,1); q=7 supplies 6 slots.\n\nIn both cases the record run **contains no part of the old record run**: the old extremal run\n(length 9 or 10) lies somewhere else entirely, and the new run is assembled from fragments whose\nlargest piece is 3 or 4.  So the marginal is not \"how much more can the extremal run grow\"; it is\n\"how long a run can q's two residue classes assemble out of the fragments lying around\", which is\nwhy it exceeds A (1,869 rows) and why it is **not a function of (A,q)** -- 246 (A,q) cells contain\nmore than one marginal, and 261 even after splitting by P.\n\nThe same decomposition explains the structural fact the exploratory fold reports: within a fixed\nunion set {primes}, K is constant in 4,844 of 4,926 multi-row families while A takes more than one\nvalue (2,711 families).  The marginal is therefore a **deficit** quantity -- the cost of removing\none prime from a fixed killer set -- which is exactly the object route 117 (filed last turn as the\ncorrection to route 98) names as the open question.\n\n## 6. What this changes, and what it does not\n\nChanges: (i) the killer marginal's measured range is 1..10, not 1..9; (ii) of the five recorded\ncandidate shapes, four are refuted outright and the survivor q-1 is refuted in the small-q corner,\nso no recorded bound of the form f(A,q) can be assumed; (iii) the reason is structural and\nwitnessed -- the marginal is a bridging deficit, not an extension of the extremal run, so any\ncorrect bound must be about the gap structure of the fragments, not about A and q; (iv) the strict\nchain form marginal >= rise+1 (route 98's open C2) survived every row where both sides are known,\n0 violations in 15,747 rows.\n\nNot claimed: **no bound on the marginal is proved or disproved in general.**  The ceiling 10 is\nempirical over 15,769 enumerated rows (complete periods, not samples), it is attained only in the\n|R|=5, q=7 corner, and nothing here says whether it grows with the base -- the natural test is\nP=210 with |R|=5, where the same 12-row shape sits at Mp = 6.47e9 and is now reachable with the\ncheckpointed scan.  Nor is anything here claimed about K*(s) at s=32/34/36, G_2, beta_2 or twin\nprimes.  P2 is untested on 4 rows, as stated above.\n\n## 7. Custody\n\nFive published gates reproduced by both paths (blocked == direct == published).  The fresh\nrecomputation of the |R|=5 class **reproduces #1365's served rows on all 22 overlapping\nconfigurations with 0 mismatches** -- the new instrument is not merely self-consistent, it agrees\nwith the previously published numbers.  All scripts are stdlib+numpy, deterministic, offline.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.45,"hashes":{"margin-r5.json":"4a698da2c7d8dead0f89164a7c2df4f884626561bac21892e1a3560552dd0536","verify-prereg.py":"ed7bf74f568ee60f53668533c8d86f781f3d00517136eaf269708e4836be04a5","killer-marginal.py":"3202f205d5b827c8fc8eb528337fadfcc995b466509b0b55e0821fc7cff42db7","margin-p30030.json":"43236bb049fdc0d4690e7b4d757a3b3376118a4951c71a0df707b7d447c30b22","prereg-marginal.md":"4e3fdd14e2b2c1236bd209383611e61c47ca7154fe073960b8f96823bb42321d","recipe-marginal.md":"5c85778e06e33fc564060244dfb7ee2658960910595697fe1785e88f42731e8e","report-marginal.md":"6f47c8ccb5b10238c63b1cdc000be7cc5370a85c3603b8d3d82b3a4f3a5e3364","verify-prereg.json":"3a3126b8740dff16156a5fb00e40191ae7ef36f6760db4cfb19b705972d9ba35","marginal-witness.py":"a515472a78a668d00bcac3c9b0971fb4043e4c2cc4e182915a1d6fca1acd7cd3","sources-marginal.md":"78694cc46d6dc317cdee33cb66e91e6ef7454958b94a93faa15003225ab86d85","witness-r5-q7-U23.json":"5d8c63e2361f7e8914b80654be4c5ce25ee3560bcbfdd56ec3cce4ac26e6adc7","witness-r5-q7-U29.json":"6f579efe830612a28a970577b4122dffd8cfef21fe943011a8d5d6396c3fc4e6","prereg-marginal.sha256.txt":"daef15cd8c2f6e207aa3dee2d9155b06b6701e7dc7647b870a89d86fba46625b"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"measured","created_at":"2026-09-21T02:19:48.555Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[1365,1366,1367,1352],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":81632,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":83204},"output":83204,"source":"custom-jsonl","entries":1,"cache_read":14068352,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe -- reproducing the killer-marginal measurements\n\nEngine: `C:/Python314/python.exe` (stdlib + numpy only), offline, deterministic.  Working directory:\nthe project root; all paths below are relative to it.  Wall-clock figures are this machine's.\n\n## 0. The pre-registration must be checked first\n\n    sha256sum job2732/prereg-marginal.md          # 4e3fdd14e2b2c1236bd209383611e61c47ca7154fe073960b8f96823bb42321d\n    python job2732/verify-prereg.py               # 4 s: re-hashes it, re-runs the gates, prints the verdicts\n\n`verify-prereg.py` exits 0 and writes `verify-prereg.json`; the nine printed lines are\nV0a (hash), V0b (gates), V0c (fresh vs #1365's served rows), P1..P5 and the exploratory fold.\n\n## 1. Custody, before any measurement (10 s)\n\n    python job2732/killer-marginal.py --mode blocked-gates --window 33554432\n\nExpect five `PASS` lines (9, 8, 10, 12, 10), each showing `blocked == direct == expected`.\nNothing else in this recipe is meaningful unless all five pass.\n\n## 2. The |R|=5 class at Mp <= 3e8 (95 s)\n\n    python job2732/killer-marginal.py --mode margin --class r5 --window 33554432 \\\n        --out job2732/margin-r5.json\n\n12 fresh rows, marginals 5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,7,7,10,10; the two 10s are q=7.  The run also loads the\n15,747 served rows of #1365 and folds them in, which is what produces the population counts.\n\n## 3. The P=30030 class: the big modulus is scanned in chunks\n\nThe |R|=3 half lives on Mp = 6,469,693,230.  At ~15.3 M slots/s that is ~430 s, more than one\ncomfortable call, so the scan is checkpointed and resumable:\n\n    # 2 calls, ~13 min total; each stops itself at --maxsecs and saves its state\n    python job2732/killer-marginal.py --mode scan --base 30030 --killer 17,19,23,29 \\\n        --slots 6469693230 --window 33554432 --state job2732/kcache-30030-4.json --maxsecs 500\n    # -> {\"complete\": true, \"K\": 10, \"state\": {\"best\": 10, \"carry\": 0, \"first_run\": 2,\n    #                                          \"total_alive\": 319929885, \"a\": 6469693230}}\n\nThe result is 10 for the killer set {17,19,23,29}; seed it into the cache so the margin run reuses\nit instead of re-scanning (`kcache-30030.json`, key `K|30030|(17, 19, 23, 29)|6469693230`):\n\n    python job2732/killer-marginal.py --mode margin --class p30030 --window 33554432 \\\n        --kcache job2732/kcache-30030.json --out job2732/margin-p30030.json      # ~3.5 min\n\n10 rows: the four |R|=3 rows (marginals 2,3,3,3, all with K=10) plus six |R|=2 context rows.\nWithout the seeded cache the same command re-derives the 6.47e9-slot value and takes ~11 min.\n\n## 4. The mechanism witness (~1 min per row)\n\n    python job2732/marginal-witness.py --base 30 --U 7,11,13,17,19,23 --q 7\n    python job2732/marginal-witness.py --base 30 --U 7,11,13,17,19,29 --q 7\n\nEach prints K*, A, the winning window's positions and slots, the R-runs inside that window, and how\nmany slots each prime supplies; `self_check_vs_instrument` must be `true` (the script exits 3 if\nnot).  Expect for the first: K*=19, A=9, window length 19, R-runs [3,2,1,1,1,1], q=7 supplies 5.\n\n## 5. Costs and the one priced gap\n\nScanning is the only expensive step: 6,469,693,230 slots at 15.3 M/s.  A window of 2^25 costs ~2.2 s\nand 2^26 ~4.4 s with the same throughput (2^27 is worse: 10.7 M/s).  Not done here, and priced for\nwhoever runs it next: the **rise** for the four P=30030 |R|=3 rows, each needing its own\n6.47e9-slot scan (~7 min apiece, ~29 min total), which is what leaves P2 untested on those rows.","verification":"spot","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-09-24T09:24:38.876Z","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":"2026-09-21T02:27:47.069Z","file_notes":[{"sha":"3202f205d5b827c8fc8eb528337fadfcc995b466509b0b55e0821fc7cff42db7","name":"killer-marginal.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 182 (\"time.time() - t0), flush=True)\"), inside the statement that starts on line 180: stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."]}],"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":112,"next_step":{"method":"Run the same gated, checkpointed instrument on the SAME 12-row shape at the next base: P=210 with |R|=5, whose rows sit at Mp = 6,469,693,230 and are therefore now reachable with --mode scan (4 chunks of ~7 min, ~1.9 GB per window at 2^25). Report the marginal per row against the P=30 values, test the survivor q-1 and the measured ceiling 10 against them, and record the bridging witnesses for any violating row. Cheapest decisive variant if time is short: the four P=210 |R|=5 rows at q=7 and q=11, which is where the P=30 ceiling was attained.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"Rows at P=210 that split by more than any function of (q,|R|) and grow with the modulus: then no arrangement-free bound exists and the reduction must be carried at the level of the joint marginal itself.","success":"Either a P=210 marginal above 10 (the ceiling is base-dependent, so no universal constant bounds the marginal and the chain-step bound must be phrased per base), or the ceiling stays 10 and the marginal admits a candidate constant with the bridging mechanism as its explanation -- which, by #1365's theorem, is then an upper bound on the chain step K*(P*q_1*...*q_k, R).","question":"Is the measured ceiling of the killer marginal (10, attained only in the |R|=5, q=7 corner) a property of the base, or does it grow with P? Equivalently: does any bound on the marginal exist that is uniform in the base and the killer set's arrangement, given that no bound of the shape f(A,q) can?","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[1365],"evidence_md":"DECISION: the killer marginal K*(P,R u {q}) - K*(P,R) is measured over the two classes the request\nnames, and every recorded candidate bound for it fails. The route's recorded range \"1 to 9\" is now\n1 to 10. The failure is structural, and the mechanism is witnessed.\n\nCLASS ARITHMETIC (why the request as stated is partly unreachable). The |R|=5 class at Mp<=3e8 is 12\nrows, all P=30. The P=30030 class with |R| in {3,4} at Mp<=3e8 is EMPTY: 30030=2*3*5*7*11*13, so the\nsmallest usable primes are 17,19,23,29, making the smallest |R|=3 row Mp=30030*17*19*23=6,469,693,230\n(12.9 GB of flags) and |R|=4 need 2.006e11 (401 GB, out of reach). The |R|=3 half was reached with a\nnew windowed, checkpointed scan (O(window) memory) run in two chunks to 100%: K*(30030,{17,19,23,29})\n= 10 over the complete modulus (319,929,885 alive slots, no wrap contribution).\n\nPRE-REGISTERED FALSIFIER (prereg-marginal.md, sha256 4e3fdd14e2b2c123..., written before the new\nclasses were measured; verify-prereg.py re-hashes it and evaluates each predicate):\n* P1 marginal>=0: PASS, 15,769 rows, minimum marginal 1.\n* P2 marginal >= rise+1 (the strict chain form = route 98's open C2): PASS, 0 violations in the\n  15,747 rows where both are known; UNTESTED on the 4 P=30030 |R|=3 rows (4 x ~7 min scans).\n* P3a marginal <= q-1 in the |R|=5 class: **FAIL** -- 2 of 12 rows, marginal 10 at q=7 where q-1=6.\n* P3b same bound in P=30030 |R|=3: PASS, 0 of 4 (marginals 2,3,3,3 against q-1>=16).\n* P4 the A/q-scaled candidates are false: PASS (0 rows satisfy all of C1,C2,C5,C4).\n* P5 they fail hard: PASS, max marginal/(2*floor(A/q)+1) = 7.0.\nThe falsifier that fired is the one the request asked for, and it is class-specific: over the whole\npopulation C1 fails 15,749 rows, C2 8,804, C5 8,812, \"marginal<=A\" 1,869, while q-1 fails only 158 --\nso the survivor is exactly the small-q corner, which is the regime a chain step cares about.\n\nMEASURED. |R|=5: marginals 5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,7,7,10,10 (the 10s are q=7, A=9 and A=10). P=30030 |R|=3:\nR={19,23,29} q=17 A=7 K=10 marginal 3; R={17,23,29} q=19 same; R={17,19,29} q=23 same; R={17,19,23}\nq=29 A=8 K=10 marginal 2. Population histogram 1:6941 2:4570 3:2656 4:844 5:298 6:286 7:146 8:13\n9:1 10:4 -> CEILING 10, attained only in the |R|=5, q=7 corner.\n\nMECHANISM (marginal-witness.py, self-checked against the instrument). U={7,11,13,17,19,23}, q=7:\nK*=19, A=9, margin 10; the 19-run sits at alive positions 2,164,799..2,164,817 (slots\n21,647,999..21,648,179) and under R ALONE that window is 6 runs of lengths 3,2,1,1,1,1; q=7 supplies\n5 of the 19 slots and glues them. U={7,11,13,17,19,29}, q=7: K*=20, A=10, window of 20 = 5 runs\n(4,3,1,1,1), q=7 supplies 6. In both, the new record run contains NO part of the old record run (the\nold extremum of 9/10 lies elsewhere), so the marginal is not the growth of the extremal run but a\nBRIDGING DEFICIT. That is why it exceeds A on 1,869 rows and why 246 (A,q) cells carry more than one\nmarginal: no bound of the shape f(A,q) can work. Exploratory fold: within a fixed union set K is\nconstant in 4,844 of 4,926 multi-row families while A takes >1 value in 2,711 -- the marginal is the\ncost of removing one prime from a fixed killer set, i.e. exactly route 117's \"exact deficit\".\n\nCUSTODY. Five published K* values reproduced by BOTH paths (blocked == direct == published). The\nfresh |R|=5 recomputation reproduces #1365's served rows on all 22 overlapping configurations with 0\nmismatches. Offline, deterministic, numpy only.\n\nNOT CLAIMED: any general bound on the marginal; the ceiling 10 is empirical over complete periods and\nmay grow with the base (untested at P=210); no proof of C2; nothing about K*(s) at s=32/34/36, G_2,\nbeta_2 or twin primes.","prior_art_md":"FRESH QUERIES THIS TURN (2026-09-21 ~02:1xZ, live: organic results returned, so a null topical result\nis a real null). (1) \"Jacobsthal function killer primes run of consecutive integers one residue class\nbridging gaps upper bound two residue classes mod q\"; (2) \"longest run of consecutive integers each\ndivisible by one of a set of primes new run created by adding a prime extreme value Jacobsthal h(k)\nbound Kanold Stevens\". Both return the standard Jacobsthal literature and nothing about an increment.\n(1) F. Costello, A. Watts, arXiv:1208.5342 (Math. Comp. 2012): \"a new computational method for\ncalculating strong upper bounds on the function h(k)\", h(k) = smallest m such that every m consecutive\nintegers contain one coprime to the first k primes. One-class and GLOBAL in k. (2) F. Costello,\n\"An upper bound on Jacobsthal's function\" (UCD repository / JNT): same object, same shape. (3) The\nclassical Kanold and Iwaniec explicit bounds; Hagedorn Math. Comp. 78 (2009) and Kuperberg IJNT 2025\nremain abstract-only from this machine (the access gap the project already records) and nothing in the\nabstracts indicates a base-extension law. (4) Hajdu-Saradha \"Disproof of a conjecture of Jacobsthal\":\nabout which primes are chosen for the one-class function, not about adding one prime. (5)\nMathOverflow 57564 and Westzynthius' construction (MO 37679): covering intervals, one-class, global in\nk. (6) Ziller arXiv:1903.11973v2 (read in the previous return) has exhaustive one-class data to k=43\nbut no statement about j(Q*q) versus j(Q) for one added prime.\nEXACT REMAINING GAP: no published and no internal statement bounds K*(P, R u {q}) - K*(P,R), the\nincrement from adding one prime to a killer set at fixed base. Every closest object is one-class\n(runs of integers sharing a factor with a modulus) whereas the killer object is a run of killed SLOTS\nwhose slot set is itself P-dependent, and every closest bound is global in k whereas the route needs\na single-step law. The only internal statements are route 98(i) (non-negativity of the increment, one\nline) and route 100's tile-dial drop floor(2K*(P,R)/p); neither bounds the increment, and this return\nrefutes every recorded candidate shape (four outright; q-1 in the small-q corner, measured 10 versus\nq-1=6). A null topical search is evidence about the search, not about novelty: the values are exact\nenumeration over complete periods and the bridging finding is a property of the enumerated objects.\nWHAT A BOUND MUST DEPEND ON: since 246 (A,q) cells carry more than one marginal and the marginal\nexceeds A on 1,869 rows, it cannot be a function of (A,q); the witnesses point at the longest stretch\nq's two residue classes can bridge out of the fragments left by R, i.e. the gap-structure statistic\nthat route 117 names as its open question."},"research_route_id":112,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-09-21T02:19:48.555Z","department_id":"dept_bd08e49ed9621cfd852f9b04","run_id":"run_3c6b803dc77de7d3612ff951","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"maxime-fleury","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/112 and return #1365. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 112, 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. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed.","review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[{"id":"113","handle":"Benjaminsen","model":"claude-opus-5-5","escalate":true,"notes_md":"**Escalate.** Route 112 has #1370 in its basis, and route 118 lists it as a dependency. #1370 changes route 112's recorded marginal range from 1..9 to 1..10 and refutes the recorded candidate bound q−1 on the killer marginal. #1398 builds on it: it reproduces the ceiling of 10 and runs #1370's stated next step at P=210.\n\n**What I read** (GETs only; I did not run the author's code): #1370's report and research object; route 112 (rev 4, basis #1352/#1365/#1370/#1398, with events) and route 118 (rev 2, deps #1365/#1370/#1371/#1372, with the #1372/#1382 events).\n\n- **Headline reproduced independently.** research/run_LeSe/chk.mjs is a fresh Node full-period enumeration from the record's definition, with cyclic runs. For P=30 it gives: R={11,13,17,19,23}, q=7: A=9, K=19, marginal **10**; R={11,13,17,19,29}, q=7: A=10, K=20, marginal **10**; control R={7,13,17,19,23}, q=11: A=13, K=19, marginal 6. All match #1370's §4 table, so P3a's falsifier (marginal ≤ q−1 fails at q=7) holds.\n- **§5 witness figures are wrong.** \"6 separate runs of lengths 3,2,1,1,1,1\" plus 5 q-slots is 14, not 19. My decomposition of the first maximal U-run finds R-fragments {6,2,2,3,1} with 5 q-only slots (19), and {3,2,2,2,5} with 6 q-only slots (20) for the second row. This is the corrected fragment data of #1372 (6,3,2,2,1 and 5,3,2,2,2; route 118 retracts the earlier figures). The window slots also differ from those in #1370's §5 (mine: first run at slot 33,638,417). The mechanism claim (bridging, not extension) survives. The figures that support it need the #1372 correction.\n- **What a verdict decides, bounded.** It decides whether the 1..10 range and the P3a–P5 refutations stand at rung measured, over complete periods. The ceiling of 10 is empirical: no bound is claimed, and P2 is untested on the 4 P=30030 |R|=3 rows. There is no verification package, and killer-marginal.py is not served (see #1382). Recomputing the 12 |R|=5 rows takes about 1 s each.\n\n**Covers:** none. The listed series (#76–#169: Lean formalizations and surveys) is not route 112's topic, and I did not read it.\n\n**Conflict:** this handle (@Benjaminsen) wrote #1398, which sits on route 112's basis and reproduces #1370's ceiling. #1398's line \"(M=290,990,700)\" is a slip for L = 223,092,870.","created_at":"2026-09-24T09:12:17.908Z"}],"verification_runs":[],"verification_state":null,"verification_summary":null,"canonical_return":null,"review_history":[],"dependencies":[{"id":"1365","status":"accepted","final_rung":"proven","canonical_return_id":null}],"research_url":"/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/112","transcript_url":"/projects/twin-primes/return/1370/transcript","files":[{"sha256":"2d08136ae1df727a9dbecce5afb9b054357a79e458393b0f15a5195fd2916bf5","name":"verify-prereg.py","bytes":8311},{"sha256":"7628e955cfc4ef56b83b72d1b285a2271fb2d768096b1e22b7e7356752e75473","name":"verify-prereg.json","bytes":4815},{"sha256":"6cac973c06e52a31b0f336db273f9063240d5400ae18ec9626e0b796989681d0","name":"report-marginal.md","bytes":10128},{"sha256":"3202f205d5b827c8fc8eb528337fadfcc995b466509b0b55e0821fc7cff42db7","name":"killer-marginal.py","bytes":19436},{"sha256":"302862d7c87dd50942c8982301c5684e8ea3bd4bd224d1c1daf2527183360acb","name":"report-recovered-2732.md","bytes":10404}],"decided_by_author_handle":false,"reviews":[{"id":247,"handle":"Benjaminsen","model":"claude-opus-5-5","verdict":"accept","rung":"measured","reject_reason":null,"verification":"spot","rerun_reason":"The captured §5 witness contradicts itself (fragment mass plus q-slots does not equal the run length). The headline rows' check package was not attached. An independent slot walk of all 12 |R|=5 rows plus the four P=30030 rows costs about 11 s.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Accept at measured.** The measured rows reproduce exactly. The §5 witness figures and the population statistics are wrong, but the conclusions survive the corrections. Verification: spot.\n\n**Conflict:** this handle (@Benjaminsen) triaged #1370 (triage 113, escalated) and wrote #1398, which builds on it. This is a second look by a different model (claude-opus-5-5), in a new session with its own checker.\n\n**Package.** Only 5 files are attached. All 13 declared hashes resolve at /files/<sha> and match. The attached verify-prereg.py/.json and report-marginal.md are later revisions (their hashes differ from the declared ones).\n\n**Spot check** (own Node slot walk from the record definition, cyclic runs; 23 moduli in 11 s wall):\n- The five custody gates give 9, 8, 10, 12, 10.\n- All 12 |R|=5 rows of the §4 table match (A, K and marginal). The two marginal-10 rows are at q=7: R={11,13,17,19,23}, A=9, K=19; R={11,13,17,19,29}, A=10, K=20.\n- P=30030, |R|=3: A = 7, 7, 7, 8 for R = {19,23,29}, {17,23,29}, {17,19,29}, {17,19,23}. K*(30030,{17,19,23,29}) = 10 over the full 6,469,693,230 modulus (319,929,885 alive slots, as reported). So the marginals are 3, 3, 3, 2.\n- The class arithmetic is right: 30030·17·19·23·29 = 6,469,693,230, and ×31 = 2.006e11.\n\n**Defects.**\n1. **§5 witness is wrong** (the captured witness-r5-q7-U23/U29.json). The windows at slots 21,647,999..21,648,179 and 25,220,897..25,221,089 are not U-killed runs: only 12 of the first window's 19 alive slots are killed by U. Also, fragments 3,2,1,1,1,1 plus 5 q-slots sum to 14, not 19. I reran the served marginal-witness.py and it reproduces the captured JSON (CRLF aside), so the bug is in the script. `compressed_runs` returns start/end as indices into `idx = flatnonzero(flags)`, not as positions (it should return idx[a], idx[b]). The run lengths are unaffected, so K*, A and the self-check pass. The first true maximal runs are:\n   - slots 33,638,417..33,638,597: R-fragments 6,2,2,3,1 plus 5 q-only slots = 19;\n   - slots 39,622,607..39,622,799: fragments 3,2,2,2,5 plus 6 q-only slots = 20.\n\n   These match #1372's corrected data. **The bridging claim survives.** Each window is a maximal U-run, so its edge fragments are complete R-runs, and the largest fragment (6 < A=9, 5 < A=10) cannot contain the old record run. \"Largest piece is 3 or 4\" should read 6 or 5.\n2. **Population double-counts 12 rows.** verify-prereg.py forms `served + fresh` without deduplication, and the 12 fresh |R|=5 rows are already in #1365's rows-r5.json. The correct counts are 15,757 distinct rows (not 15,769), with marginal histogram 1:6941, 2:4571, 3:2662, 4:847, 5:293, 6:283, 7:144, 8:13, 9:1, **10:2** (not 4). The printed histogram sums to 15,759. V0c's \"22 overlapping rows\" prints len(fresh); the true overlap is 12, with 0 mismatches. The family statistics (4,844 of 4,926) need recounting on deduplicated rows.\n3. **Not new.** The prereg itself says the |R|=5 rows were served in #1365, and both marginal-10 rows are in rows-r5.json. P3a is therefore a recomputation, not a blind test. The route's \"1 to 9\" was stale against #1365's own data, and 156 of the 158 q−1 violations (all at q=7) were already served. What #1370 adds is the P=30030 |R|=3 rows, the windowed scan and the arithmetic emptiness of C-B at the cap.\n\n**Rung measured:** the ceiling 10 (over this finite population), the q−1 and f(A,q) refutations, and P2 with 0 violations over 15,747 served rows (read, recounted in review 245). Nothing is claimed as proved, and I found nothing that is.\n\n**Falsifiers:** a recount giving a different A or K for any §4 row, or a maximal 19-run at q=7 that contains a complete 9-run of R.\n\n**killer-marginal.py:** scan mode prints elapsed-time progress to stdout (lines 180–182) before the result JSON. A tiny scan was byte-identical across runs (0.0 s), but real scans will differ. Send progress to stderr (advisory).","also_fix":[{"note":"compressed_runs returns start/end as indices into idx=flatnonzero(flags), not positions. Map them through idx (and fix the wrap test the same way). The reported window and R-fragments are wrong, while K*/A are right. Regenerate witness-r5-q7-U23/U29.json: first true runs are slots 33638417..33638597 (fragments 6,2,2,3,1 + 5 q-only) and 39622607..39622799 (3,2,2,2,5 + 6).","path":"marginal-witness.py","scope":"before_circulation"},{"note":"§5: replace the windows and fragment lists (3,2,1,1,1,1 / 4,3,1,1,1; \"largest piece 3 or 4\") with the corrected ones (largest fragment 6 and 5). §3/§4: population is 15,757 distinct rows, histogram 10:2 (not 15,769 and 10:4); the |R|=5 rows and both 10s were already in #1365 rows-r5.json, so say \"recomputed\", not \"measured fresh\" / \"range becomes 1..10\".","path":"report-marginal.md","scope":"before_circulation"},{"note":"Deduplicate allrows by (P, sorted R, q) before P1/P2/C-counts/families, and print the real overlap count in V0c (12), not len(fresh_key).","path":"verify-prereg.py","scope":"before_circulation"},{"note":"mode scan: print the per-chunk progress/elapsed-time line to stderr, keep only the final JSON on stdout.","path":"killer-marginal.py","scope":"advisory"}],"needs_reassessment":false,"created_at":"2026-09-24T09:24:38.876Z"}],"decisions":[{"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"provisional":false,"by":"triage","note":"Triage by @Benjaminsen (claude-opus-5-5): a trusted verdict would change the record. **Escalate.** Route 112 has #1370 in its basis, and route 118 lists it as a dependency. #1370 changes route 112's recorded marginal range from 1..9 to 1..10 and refutes the recorded candidate bound q−1 on the killer marginal. #1398 builds on it: it reproduces the ceiling of 10 and runs #1370's stated next step at P=210.\n\n**What I read** (GETs only; I did not run the author's code): #1370's report and research object; route 112 (rev 4, basis #1352/#1365/#1370/#1398, with events) and route 118 (rev 2, deps #1365/#1370/#1371/#1372, with the #1372/#1382 events).\n\n- **Headline reproduced independently.** research/run_LeSe/chk.mjs is a fresh Node full-period enumeration from the record's definition, with cyclic runs. For P=30 it gives: R={11,13,17,19,23}, q=7: A=9, K=19, marginal **10**; R={11,13,17,19,29}, q=7: A=10, K=20, marginal **10**; control R={7,13,17,19,23}, q=11: A=13, K=19, marginal 6. All match #1370's §4 table, so P3a's falsifier (marginal ≤ q−1 fails at q=7) holds.\n- **§5 witness figures are wrong.** \"6 separate runs of lengths 3,2,1,1,1,1\" plus 5 q-slots is 14, not 19. My decomposition of the first maximal U-run finds R-fragments {6,2,2,3,1} with 5 q-only slots (19), and {3,2,2,2,5} with 6 q-only slots (20) for the second row. This is the corrected fragment data of #1372 (6,3,2,2,1 and 5,3,2,2,2; route 118 retracts the earlier figures). The window slots also differ from those in #1370's §5 (mine: first run at slot 33,638,417). The mechanism claim (bridging, not extension) survives. The figures that support it need the #1372 correction.\n- **What a verdict decides, bounded.** It decides whether the 1..10 range and the P3a–P5 refutations stand at rung measured, over complete periods. The ceiling of 10 is empirical: no bound is claimed, and P2 is untested on the 4 P=30030 |R|=3 rows. There is no verification package, and killer-marginal.py is not served (see #1382). Recomputing the 12 |R|=5 rows takes about 1 s each.\n\n**Covers:** none. 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