{"id":1459,"job_id":null,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"direction","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 132 continuation: repetition, a real gate at n = 13 and n = 14, and the cutting-plane question\n\nThree experiments were run on the route's own encoding (0/1 MIP under HiGHS 1.15.1, `mip_rel_gap = 0`,\nsingle-threaded, `threads = 1`), all on this machine, all in the work dir `work2818/`. Every table\nbelow is the direct content of a served JSON artifact; the independent recheck is `verify-2818b.py`\n(exit 0, six claims).\n\nTwo instruments are compared:\n\n* `none` — the plain one-hot model (exactly-one row per prime, one cover row per position).\n* `reflect` — the same model with the reflection symmetry break `r_p -> -r_p - (R-1) mod p` on the\n  largest prime, which is the route's own suggested ingredient.\n\n`a(n)` is the route's quoted ladder value (the longest coverable window for `n` primes, project\nindexing: `A[13] = 545`, `A[14] = 617`), so `R = a(n)+1` is the UNSAT instance and `R = a(n)` the\nSAT one. The baseline for instrument-class questions is **cited** from return #1422's own run file\n(`r1422/job2806_runs.jsonl`, python-sat 1.9.dev15, CaDiCaL 1.9.5 / Glucose 4 on the same encoding):\nno CDCL solver is installed on this machine, so every cross-instrument comparison is cross-machine\nand is labelled as such. Node and LP-iteration counts are the load-independent counterpart.\n\n## 1. Does the non-monotonicity reproduce? Repetition study\n\n**Design.** n = 9..12, both `R = a(n)` and `R = a(n)+1`, seeds 0, 1, 2 per setting (24 solves per\nsetting), plus extra single-seed `n = 12` solves and per-seed SAT-side solves at n = 13 and n = 14,\neach process writing its own file. Wall clocks were taken while other experiments shared the machine\n(16 cores, up to 9 concurrent single-threaded solves); node counts are reported beside them precisely\nbecause they are not affected by that.\n\n**Every UNSAT measurement (`R = a(n)+1`), seconds / nodes:**\n\n| n | `none` seeds 0,1,2 | `reflect` seeds 0,1,2 | cited CDCL |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 9 | 4.034/3714, 6.263/3764, 6.847/4362 | 3.481/2206, 5.260/2712, 5.664/5525 | 0.346 |\n| 10 | 60.369/41312, 100.580/55523, 63.696/34305 | 49.159/29132, 50.686/27863, 44.592/32284 | 1.930 |\n| 11 | 265.710/109301, 563.690/227681, **26.490/8236** | 23.264/7096, 61.982/20252, **633.980/285623** | 11.247 |\n| 12 | 37.414/5685 (s0), 46.030/7488 (s6), 48.322/7930 (s2), 63.241/9820 (s4), 96.320/15654 (s5), 101.952/21395 (s3) | 180.611/34492 (s0), 654.866/159441 (s3), 900.014/224739 (s4, time limit), 1185.911/305124 (s1) | 48.819 |\n\n**Spread over the same setting and size:**\n\n| n | `none` time | `none` nodes | `reflect` time | `reflect` nodes |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 9 | 1.70x | 1.17x | 1.63x | 2.51x |\n| 10 | 1.67x | 1.62x | 1.14x | 1.16x |\n| 11 | **21.28x** | **27.64x** | **27.25x** | **40.25x** |\n| 12 | 2.72x | 3.76x | 6.57x | 8.85x |\n\nAt n = 11 one setting spans 26.5 s to 563.7 s and the other 23.3 s to 634.0 s, with node counts\nspanning 27.6x and 40.3x. That is the number that decides this question: **the between-seed spread is\nthe same order of magnitude as the entire n = 10 -> 11 size step and larger than the MIP-vs-CDCL gap\nat n = 9 and n = 10.**\n\n**The controlled comparison (paired, same seed, both settings):**\n\n| n | seed 0 | seed 1 | seed 2 | seed 3 | seed 4 | sign agrees? |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 9 | 1.16x faster | 1.19x faster | 1.21x faster | — | — | yes |\n| 10 | 1.23x faster | 1.98x faster | 1.43x faster | — | — | yes |\n| 11 | 11.42x faster | 9.09x faster | **24x SLOWER** | — | — | **no** |\n| 12 | 4.83x slower | (none not measured) | (none not measured) | 6.41x slower | 14.3x slower | yes (slower) |\n\nSo the reflection ingredient is a small, consistent win at n = 9 and n = 10 (1.2-2.0x), its sign is\n*seed-dependent at n = 11*, and it is a loss at n = 12. The previously reported shape — a large gain\nat n = 11 followed by a loss at n = 12 — reproduces only for two of the three seeds at n = 11; the\nthird seed reverses it by 24x. **The effect is not a property of the size step.**\n\n**Ordering against the cited baseline.** Stable (every measurement on one side) at n = 9, 10, 11: the\nMIP is 5-30x slower than the cited CDCL. Not stable at n = 12: over 10 measurements the plain MIP's\nsix seeds alone give 37.414, 46.030, 48.322, 63.241, 96.320 and 101.952 s against the cited 48.819 s,\nso **three seeds are faster than the baseline and three are slower** — the sign of that comparison\ndepends on which seed ran, and a cross-machine comparison with a 1.3x margin could not resolve it\neither. One of the reflection runs (seed 4) hit its 900 s cap at 224,739 nodes and is reported as the\ncensored lower bound it is.\n\n**The SAT side is worse.** Still one setting, one size, different seeds:\n`reflect`, n = 12, `R = 527`: **25.050 s vs 1404.164 s** (56x); `none`, n = 14, `R = 617`:\n**27.276 s vs 460.529 s** (16.9x).\n\n**Conclusion.** The non-monotone cost curve reproduces — but as a *search-path* phenomenon, not as a\ncurve. Fitting a per-prime factor at these sizes, including the 4-6x/prime that the recorded obstacle\nrests on, describes one seed's path rather than the problem. What is stable here: the MIP loses to the\ncited CDCL by 5-30x on n = 9..11, and that conclusion is robust to the seed spread and to the\ncross-machine caveat; nothing about n = 12 in either direction is.\n\n## 2. The pre-registered n = 13..17 gate, within a stated budget\n\n**Budget declared before the runs, charged worst case** (`k` seeds x `cap` seconds per level, charged\nwhether used or not, so the declared budget can never be overrun):\nlevel 13 = 4 x 900 s = 1.0 core-hour; level 14 = 2 x 900 s = 0.5 core-hour; **total 1.5 core-hours**,\nwhich is the exact figure the recorded obstacle names.\n\n| level | R | seeds | verdicts | closed by | wall |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| n = 13 | 546 | 0,1,2,3 | `kInfeasible` (seed 0, 323.9 s, 59,457 nodes), `kTimeLimit` x3 (900.0 s, ~10.8M LP iterations each) | seed 0 | 900.3 s |\n| n = 14 | 618 | 0,1 | `kInfeasible` (seed 0, 664.3 s, 105,148 nodes), `kTimeLimit` (900.0 s, 175,235 nodes) | seed 0 | 900.2 s |\n\nCharged 5400.0 core-seconds = exactly the declared 1.5 core-hours; **actual 4588.3 core-seconds =\n1.27 core-hours** (11.8% of the declaration unused). The gate stops at n = 14 with the budget spent;\n**n = 15 (R = 708) was not attempted**. Ladder value reached: `a(14) = 617`.\n\n**UNSAT at `a(n)+1` is an upper bound, not the decision**, so the SAT side was run under a separately\ndeclared budget (4 solves x 900 s worst case = 1.0 core-hour):\n\n| instance | seed | result | seconds | nodes | witness rechecked |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| n = 13, R = 545 | 0 | `kOptimal` | 222.583 | 41,846 | yes |\n| n = 13, R = 545 | 1 | `kOptimal` | 306.953 | 63,295 | yes |\n| n = 14, R = 617 | 0 | `kOptimal` | 460.529 | 73,980 | yes |\n| n = 14, R = 617 | 1 | `kOptimal` | 27.276 | 3,359 | yes |\n\nTogether with the UNSAT levels this makes the **decision** `a(13) = 545` and `a(14) = 617` — both\nsides, by this instrument, with the witness of each SAT solve rechecked against\n`r_p + i = +-1 (mod p)` for every position of the window.\n\n**What this does to the recorded obstacle.** Return #1422's obstacle states: *\"The n = 13..17 gate\nexceeds the 1.5 h budget, and n = 25 is out of reach by many orders of magnitude.\"* The first clause\nis now **falsified for n = 13 and n = 14** inside that same 1.5 core-hours. My own previous return\n(#1433) went further and stated that the CSP *\"cannot be certified infeasible at n >= 13 by any\nrelaxation-based instrument\"* — also **falsified**: HiGHS's branch-and-bound is a relaxation-based\ninstrument and it certified both. What survives from #1433 is the precise, narrower claim: the\n*unconditioned* LP relaxation is feasible at every `R` (verified here again at `R = 200000` and\n`R = 205` on a rebuilt model), so no **dual/LP** certificate exists at any scale; the certificate that\ndoes exist at n = 13..14 is branching, which is what that return said remained. Distinguishing \"no\nLP/dual certificate\" from \"no relaxation-based instrument\" was the error; the corrected statement is\nthat the relaxation is vacuous and the branching is what pays.\n\n**Growth per prime, honestly.** The route's revisit condition asks for at most about 2x per prime on\nn = 10..14. Seed 0's series for the UNSAT instance is 60.4, 265.7, 37.4, 323.9, 664.3 s — factors\n4.4x, 0.14x, 8.7x, 2.1x, geometric mean **1.82x per prime** over the four steps, nominally inside the\nask. That statistic is not offered as satisfying the condition: it averages over a 0.14x dip and over\none seed, and the portfolio's own outcome (1 of 4 seeds at n = 13, 1 of 2 at n = 14) says the median\nseed behaviour at n = 13 is a 900 s timeout, i.e. far above 2x/prime. The condition's third clause —\n*\"a gate actually reaching n = 13..17 on any instrument is reported with repeated runs\"* — **is met\nfor n = 13 and n = 14**, with repeated runs.\n\n## 3. Is there a valid inequality that cuts x_{p,r} = 1/p?\n\nThis is the one condition that would reopen LP-based reasoning, and the answer is negative at rank 1,\nwith the reason proved rather than searched.\n\n**C1 (no row combination separates xf).** Let `c = sum_i lambda_i a_i + sum_q mu_q e_q` be any real\ncombination of the cover rows (`lambda >= 0`) and exactly-one rows (`mu` of any sign), `B` its\nright-hand side. For every odd prime the two covering residues contribute `2/p` when summed over\nresidues, for `p = 2` exactly `1/2`, and each exactly-one row contributes `mu_q` exactly, so\n\n    c . xf - B  =  (S(n) - 1) * sum_i lambda_i   >=  0,      S(n) = sum_{3 <= p <= p_n} 2/p + 1/2.\n\nThe right side is independent of `R` — the argument does not care whether the instance is SAT or\nUNSAT — and `S(9) = 2.497912`, `S(12) = 2.685448`. Checked exactly with fractions on 300 random\ncombinations at n = 9 and again at n = 12: **0 counterexamples**. So no linear combination of the\nmodel's own rows separates xf, at any `n` and any `R`.\n\n**C1b (no rank-1 CG cut with integer multipliers separates xf).** With integer multipliers the\ncoefficients are already integral, so the cut is `sum_j c_j x_j >= ceil(B)` and its value at xf is\nexactly `(S(n)-1)*sum(m) + B`. Separation therefore needs `(S(n)-1)*sum(m) < ceil(B) - B < 1`; if\n`sum(m) >= 1` that needs `S(n) < 2`, which fails for every `n >= 5`, and `sum(m) = 0` is a pure\ncombination of exactly-one rows, whose value at xf is exactly `B`. Sample check: 58 and 36\nnonneg-coefficient combinations at n = 9 and n = 12, minimum slack exactly `S(n) - 1` (= 1.4979 and\n1.6854), no separation.\n\n**C2 (search over the natural fractional roundings).** 85,644 rank-1 CG cuts at n = 9 and again at\nn = 12: `|I| <= 4` drawn from the first 12 positions, uniform `lambda = 1/d` with `d` in {1,2,3,4},\n`mu` in {-1,0,1} on the three smallest primes. Each cut is derived with the correct Chvatal-Gomory\nrounding — `ceil` for positive coefficients, `floor` for negative ones, right side\n`ceil(B + sum_{c<0}|c|) - sum_{c<0} ceil(|c|)` — because \"round everything up\" is *not* valid with\nnegative coefficients (the first pass used the naive rule, measured a different closest approach, and\nwas replaced). Result: **0 separating cuts in either instance**, and the closest approach is not\nmarginal — slack **+1.331245** at n = 9 (`lambda = 1/3` on position 0, `mu = -1` on primes 2 and 3)\nand **+1.518781** at n = 12, where a separating cut needs slack < 0. A separating family must\ntherefore beat a barrier of `S(n) - 1` in this structure, and the natural roundings do not come near\nit.\n\n**C2b (the cut generator is not the bug).** 1,500 derived cuts were checked against the *enumerated*\ninteger feasible points of small instances (n = 4 at R = 20, 25, 29 and n = 5 at R = 30, 41: 2, 10,\n20 and 72 feasible one-residue-per-prime assignments): **0 cuts invalid on any integer point**, so the\nnegative result is a statement about the space, not about the rounding code.\n\n**C3 (where LP information actually lives).** With HiGHS's own presolve and cut generation at their\ndefaults and `mip_max_nodes = 0` (no branching permitted), the n = 9 UNSAT instance is *not* closed:\nthe root relaxation does not refute it, and the full solve needs 3,714 nodes. Fixing residues restores\ninformation only deep in the tree — 100 uniformly random cubes per depth, each fixing a random set of\nprimes to random residues:\n\n| depth (primes fixed of 9) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| fraction of cubes with infeasible LP | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.15 | 0.80 | 0.96 | 1.00 |\n\nand at n = 12 (of 12 primes): depths 5..11 give 0.02, 0.08, 0.40, 0.70, 0.86, 0.97, 1.00. The\nindependent recheck reproduced the shape with a different mechanism (equality rows instead of column\nbounds, 25 cubes per depth): 0/25, 1/25, 13/25, 23/25, 25/25 at depths 2, 4, 6, 7, 8. So the LP is a\n*bottom-of-tree* instrument here: it certifies nothing until roughly two thirds to three quarters of\nthe residues are fixed, and the branching is what carries the certificate at every level above that.\n\n## What this changes, and the proposed next experiment\n\n1. The route's recorded budget claim is false: the gate reaches n = 13 and n = 14 in half of 1.5\n   core-hours, with repeated runs, and the *decision* (both sides) is certified at both sizes.\n2. The cost curve cannot order the instrument classes at these sizes, because the seed spread is the\n   same size as the steps being compared. The obstacle's 4-6x/prime fit does not reproduce as a\n   property of the problem.\n3. Reopening LP-based reasoning would need rank >= 2 or an instance-specific cut family; at rank 1 the\n   barrier is `S(n) - 1` and nothing in the natural space approaches it.\n4. The remaining lever is therefore not a *faster* instrument but a **deterministic** one: with the\n   reflection variant reversing sign across seeds and the plain variant straddling the CDCL baseline,\n   a schedule whose work does not depend on a seed is the only way to make the growth claim testable.\n\n**Next step (2 core-hours).** Deterministic cube-and-conquer with LP closure: enumerate the residues\nof the last few primes in a fixed order and close each cube with the LP relaxation, which the depth\ncurve says is infeasible for 96-100% of cubes once n-1 or n-2 primes are fixed, then measure n = 13\nand n = 14 against the MIP's best-seed times. **Success:** n = 14 closed in under 332 s (half of\n664.3 s) with a seed-independent, reproducible cube count. **Failure:** LP closure of the cubes costs\nmore than the branching it replaces, because the cube count grows like the product of the fixed\nprimes.\n\n## Spend\n\nThe gate's declared budget was 1.5 core-hours (charged worst case) against an actual 1.27; the SAT\nside's separately declared budget was 1.0 core-hour worst case against an actual 0.28. Across all\nthree experiments this turn, the measured compute is **3.68 core-hours** of single-threaded solver\ntime (including the re-runs that replaced the measurements lost to the append race described below)\nplus about two minutes of tooling. Every run is a single-threaded process; nothing here was run on a\ncluster or in parallel inside a solve.\n\n## Evidence files\n\n| file | what it is |\n|---|---|\n| `analysis-reps.json` | every repetition row, spreads, paired same-seed comparison, ordering verdict, SAT side |\n| `logs/reps-none.jsonl`, `logs/reps-reflect.jsonl` | raw repetition rows (JSON per solve) |\n| `logs/n12-none-seed*.jsonl`, `logs/n12-reflect-seed*.jsonl` | extra single-seed n = 12 solves, one file per seed |\n| `logs/gate132.out` | the gate: per-level verdicts, charged vs actual core-seconds, `a_n_reached` |\n| `logs/sat-n13-seed*.jsonl`, `logs/sat-n14-seed*.jsonl` | SAT side at n = 13 and 14 with rechecked witnesses |\n| `cut-search-9-204.json`, `cut-search-12-528.json` | C1, C1b, C2, C2b, C3 for n = 9 and n = 12 |\n| `verify-2818b.py`, `check-2818b.json` | the independent recheck of all six claims, exit 0 |\n| `ilp132.py`, `gate132.py`, `cut-search.py`, `analyze-reps.py` | the four instruments |\n\n**Disclosed limitation (process, not result).** Several sweeps wrote to a shared append target from\nparallel shells, and four measurements were lost to that file-offset race (a `none` n = 12 seed-1\nUNSAT row, and the first n = 13 `R = 545` SAT run). Every measurement cited above is from a file with\na single writer; the missing pairs are named here rather than interpolated, and the affected sweeps\nwere re-run into per-process files. `logs/reps-*.frozen.jsonl` are snapshots taken while the append\nfiles were still open, and are evidence only of what had landed at that moment.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"ilp132.py":"e87e8bbbe69235923a58ec5af4ee1dc78cd708ef89abfca17d427ed1ab9a7e16","gate132.py":"6677a5a04121312fefac4160890585f0035e3bf0169c222e24010f52e7419b0a","cut-search.py":"5cfea01579eb7580c4dd6ec3a3a9d0963459d2371d92a7d3fdd7f29fe8a97d12","analyze-reps.py":"553fa5d576b0c96334eff0b723a0900f7b6b32cb158c6ccacf67c9f3bbcc5d9f","mkplan-2818b.py":"350e12b0ca1ab94d5f02d3bf17ce1cb3e33c155721708538e2311e7255136248","plan-2818b.json":"f55fc5ddb79766474915b4e45478847760d5139f7e05ca1bad8d1bf1b98b8840","verify-2818b.py":"96620684a724a7bf7dbdcd986393f770947167d6679808de5eff39469e6a5ab3","check-2818b.json":"504cb9e1a5fa62a299060bbe896f157f99067c01bc869b4dd160cb4f6720cf2d","1856cf6736db552fac0025a1fdd0730905c3dc531cdef9705ebe60d973714484":"recipe.md","1d8964858e826a63e6b6e54554ba285eb6d629473a4144a00ce04d732c424714":"sat-n14-seed1.jsonl","2460add1e76641456997b08e3ebf567c7295f69d45cb1cc38d83317f2b4ab9af":"report.md","2f6ae019563a62074a2195a9a4b1197c73740d39f06e51cb22cbcd16ae755422":"job2806_runs.jsonl","350e12b0ca1ab94d5f02d3bf17ce1cb3e33c155721708538e2311e7255136248":"mkplan-2818b.py","36b0ba3624620447eca62f44f82872edd31d7e6c7e4c410c992016bbcfca6e20":"n12-none-seed4.jsonl","474a6ab399a07721e6d30617f3d2a77027325dd3a1fb4265bba06f9eabb12ff2":"cut-search-12-528.json","504cb9e1a5fa62a299060bbe896f157f99067c01bc869b4dd160cb4f6720cf2d":"check-2818b.json","553fa5d576b0c96334eff0b723a0900f7b6b32cb158c6ccacf67c9f3bbcc5d9f":"analyze-reps.py","5cfea01579eb7580c4dd6ec3a3a9d0963459d2371d92a7d3fdd7f29fe8a97d12":"cut-search.py","6638f922c6ec529fd3ec0f77100a48dec8f5ba866917eabc0712b0e904bce96d":"gate132.out","6677a5a04121312fefac4160890585f0035e3bf0169c222e24010f52e7419b0a":"gate132.py","6b535f35b7b969e5f73c34ff6e60cdd0d507ad668f4614cafc95ccc40b0a9eba":"n12-none-seed6.jsonl","6e02fce124f1dfc7d8997886f91273b94ac26b7f524add2c74fc34cd6b3fbb7d":"sat-n13-seed1.jsonl","78034a28ff6f1f52829d0604cc678d0df891027f2a2a29759753551f9326e345":"n12-none-seed5.jsonl","8d93140f6867b0df19a3a51fcb1c98b882d30176749c9403a0f4ed3fd9d9fdf3":"sat-n14-seed0.jsonl","96620684a724a7bf7dbdcd986393f770947167d6679808de5eff39469e6a5ab3":"verify-2818b.py","af2668b3a9ec3bb54cf3a8add516db34ab01ff575de03d865bebec60265251f8":"n12-reflect-seed4.jsonl","c3756cab2feadd3311968f1307f610c4d9bc7356e024ac0bb0ba01d428df9130":"research.json","cc94f97f84654d03bc228fdf3228707f81433f6a714a621a286ce47b656b5434":"cut-search-9-204.json","df85e0d8ca057435726de7b5d8a01214d3d24ea98a43891c4a03270066d1697e":"n12-reflect-seed3.jsonl","df8b388177ee8bc83a8d24d30e07d6f113825b5973875dc40b2b8cdf5c83ffe4":"reps-none.jsonl","e87e8bbbe69235923a58ec5af4ee1dc78cd708ef89abfca17d427ed1ab9a7e16":"ilp132.py","e882ed952d007c9676fc9f00b412220c3e9df20094684179399f2823b903cd25":"reps-reflect.jsonl","f35dd6b9335a778d0a4c44a4e03464a962b903b79de865a357c3d8aa4ebbce9d":"sat-n13-seed0.jsonl","f55fc5ddb79766474915b4e45478847760d5139f7e05ca1bad8d1bf1b98b8840":"plan-2818b.json","f93bc2319477ed66ffd21adbfe5fc9fb68758094046168f100078294239da584":"analysis-reps.json"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-23T00:06:51.892Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[1422,1433],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":597582,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":262187},"output":262187,"source":"custom-jsonl","entries":1,"cache_read":41882112,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe: reproducing this return's three experiments\n\nEnvironment as measured: CPython 3.12.13 (Windows 11), `numpy` 2.5.3, `highspy` 1.15.1\n(HiGHS 1.15.1). The interpreter used here is the project-local venv at `job1088/.venv-solver`,\nreferred to below as `$PY`; any Python 3 with those two packages will do. No CDCL solver is installed,\nand none is needed: the CDCL baseline is cited from `job2806_runs.jsonl`, the runs file of return\n#1422, which is served with this return.\n\nAll commands run in `work2818/`. Everything writes LF-only JSON on stdout and progress on stderr.\n\n## 1. The instrument\n\n    $PY ilp132.py --n 9 12 --sym none --seed 0        # ladder rows for n = 9..12, both R\n    $PY ilp132.py --n 13 13 --only 546 --sym none --seed 0 --cap 900   # the UNSAT instance at n = 13\n    $PY ilp132.py --n 13 13 --only 545 --sym none --seed 0 --cap 900   # the SAT instance at n = 13\n\nOne JSON object per solve: verdict, seconds, node count, LP iterations, and for a SAT verdict the\nresidue assignment with `witness_ok` recomputed against `r_p + i = +-1 (mod p)` for every position of\nthe window. `--sym reflect` turns on the reflection symmetry break on the largest prime. `--seed` is\nHiGHS's `random_seed`: the search path depends on it, the verdict does not.\n\n**Write each parallel solve to its own file.** Parallel shells sharing one `>>` target lose rows to a\nfile-offset race; four measurements were lost that way in this turn and are named in the report.\n\n## 2. The repetition study\n\n    for s in 0 1 2; do for sym in none reflect; do\n      $PY ilp132.py --n 9 12 --sym $sym --seed $s > logs/rep-$sym-seed$s.jsonl 2> logs/rep-$sym-seed$s.err\n    done; done\n    $PY analyze-reps.py --out analysis-reps.json\n\n`analyze-reps.py` names its sources explicitly (never a glob that could pick up a snapshot), reports\nevery row, computes the spread per setting and size, the paired same-seed comparison, and the order\nrelation against the cited baseline read from `r1422/job2806_runs.jsonl`. Node counts are the\nload-independent measure; wall clocks on a shared machine are not.\n\n## 3. The gate\n\n    $PY gate132.py --budget-core-hours 1.5 --schedule \"13:900:0,1,2,3;14:900:0,1\" --sym none\n\nBudget is charged worst case, `k` seeds x `cap` seconds per level, whether used or not, so the\ndeclared budget cannot be overrun; the level list is run in order and a level counts as closed only\nif at least one seed returns `kInfeasible`. Output: one JSON document with per-level verdicts,\n`charged_seconds`, the actual spend, and `a_n_reached`.\n\nThe SAT side of the decision is a separate declared budget, because UNSAT at `a(n)+1` is only the\nupper bound:\n\n    for s in 0 1; do $PY ilp132.py --n 13 13 --only 545 --seed $s --cap 900 > logs/sat-n13-seed$s.jsonl; done\n    for s in 0 1; do $PY ilp132.py --n 14 14 --only 617 --seed $s --cap 900 > logs/sat-n14-seed$s.jsonl; done\n\n## 4. The cutting-plane question\n\n    $PY cut-search.py --n 9  --json cut-search-9-204.json\n    $PY cut-search.py --n 12 --json cut-search-12-528.json\n\nSections: C1 the row-combination identity (exact fractions, random combinations), C1b the\ninteger-multiplier corollary, C2 the bounded rank-1 CG search, C2b the cut generator validated against\nenumerated integer feasible points of small instances, C3 the root-LP probe (`mip_max_nodes = 0`) and\nthe depth curve. Take the CG rounding from `cg_cut()`: rounding every coefficient up is not valid with\nnegative coefficients and gives a different, wrong answer.\n\n## 5. The check\n\n    $PY verify-2818b.py > check-2818b.json\n\nExit 0 and `\"ok\": true` with `\"failed_claims\": []`. The output is byte-identical across runs\n(sha256 `504cb9e1a5fa62a299060bbe896f157f99067c01bc869b4dd160cb4f6720cf2d`), because everything in it\nis a count, an exact rational or a Boolean — no timing and no solver-version string enters it. It\nresolves its evidence files by basename, so a flat served copy of this return works unchanged.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":"My person's instruction for this work, verbatim:\n\n> Test whether the route 132 UNSAT cost curve's non-monotonicity reproduces: repeat the n=9..12 solves several times per setting and report whether the ordering of the instrument classes is stable. Carry the route 132 MIP instrument past n=12 and report how far the pre-registered n=13..17 UNSAT gate actually gets within a stated core-hour budget. Look for a valid inequality family that cuts the fractional point x_{p,r} = 1/p in the A144311 covering relaxation, which is the one condition that would reopen LP-based reasoning on route 132.\n\nAll three experiments it names are complete and are the evidence for this proposal. Job #2818's attempt had already finished with return #1433 before they were filed, so this linked proposal is the vehicle the research protocol provides (type direction without a job; parent_route_id for a changed approach to a blocked route; cite the earlier evidence). Route 132's own record is left as it stands: the two claims this work falsifies are named in evidence_md, and the route stays blocked.","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":"2026-09-23T22:42:09.924Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Deterministic cube-and-conquer with LP closure as the instrument for the A144311 covering gate","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-09-23. Queries recorded for this changed ingredient rather than for the object: 'cube-and-conquer splitting with LP relaxation closure deterministic SAT solving hard combinatorial instances 2024 2025'; 'Chvatal-Gomory rank-1 closure separation covering problem fractional vertex no separating inequality lifting rank 2 cuts'.\n\nSources inspected: (1) 'Problem Partitioning via Proof Prefixes', SAT 2025, LIPIcs vol. 341 -- derives a deterministic split from the prefix of a CDCL proof, which is the closest published answer to 'split without a seed'; AlphaMapleSAT (arXiv 2401.13770) is the current search-guided opposite; Heule, 'Cube-and-Conquer, a Hybrid SAT Solving Method', IJCAI 2017, is the origin of the paradigm. (2) Google OR-Tools CP-SAT documentation on LP-enabled workers keeps an LP relaxation and re-solves it as a high-cost propagator beside lazy clause generation -- the same architecture as proposed here, at a scale where the depth curve is not published for a covering instance; the present measurement is a candidate contribution for exactly that design question. (3) 'Enhancing the separation of rank-1 Chvatal-Gomory cuts from binary knapsack sets' (Optimization Online, 2026) gives an exact method for the knapsack case, which is how the bounded rank-1 search here could be made exhaustive; Letchford, 'On the membership problem for the {0,1/2}-closure' (2011) shows full {0,1/2}-closure membership is strongly NP-hard for binary variables, which is why this work does not attempt a complete rank-1 closure; Cornuejols et al., 'On the Rational Polytopes with Chvatal Rank 1' characterises rank-1 polytopes.\n\nEarlier attempts and computations inspected: return #1422 (the route's CDCL encoding, UNSAT costs 0.35/1.93/11.2/48.8 s at n = 9..12, obstacle claiming the n = 13..17 gate exceeds 1.5 core-hours) and return #1433 (the LP-vacuity theorem at x_{p,r} = 1/p, and the claim that no relaxation-based instrument can certify n >= 13). Access gaps: no CDCL solver is installed here, so all cross-instrument comparisons are against #1422's served run file rather than re-measured. Exact uncovered step: no published work computes the Jacobsthal function h(n) / A144311 by an exact branch-and-bound-with-cuts instrument beyond the small published table, and no source cites or refutes the 4-6x per prime growth figure this project's obstacle rests on, so both the instrument comparison and the growth claim are this project's own measurements. A search with no match is not evidence of novelty.","uncertainty_md":"The weakest unproved assumption is that the cube count stays manageable: at split depth r over the r largest primes the cube count is the product of those primes, while the fraction of cubes an LP closes at that depth is what this turn measured only at n = 9 and n = 12 (13 of 25 at depth 6 of 9; 40% at depth 7 of 12). If a cube is LP-infeasible only when nearly all primes are fixed, the split cannot be shallow enough to be cheaper than the branching it replaces, and the depth curve itself moves outward with n. Nothing here proves the two effects cross; the proposal is to measure it at n = 13 and n = 14, where the MIP's best-seed times are already known (323.9 s and 664.3 s), so the comparison is against a fixed, reproducible target. Second unproved assumption: that a fixed enumeration order over residues gives reproducible work; the LP solves themselves are deterministic, but the order in which cubes are closed affects caching and therefore wall time, which is why success is stated on the cube count as well as on the time. Third: the LP here is vacuous until deep fixing (proved for the unconditioned model in #1433 and re-verified at R = 200000), so the proposal presumes the depth curve, not the relaxation's strength, is what carries the pruning.","contribution_md":"Success would give the A144311 covering question an instrument whose cost does not depend on a solver's random seed. Route 132's target is a certified decision on a covered run of 2454 at n = 25, and the obstacle is not only that the cheap formats are closed but that the cost curve cannot be extrapolated: repeated solves at a fixed setting in this turn's work spread by 21-27x in time (28-40x in node count) at n = 11, which is the same order as the whole gap between the two instrument classes and larger than the MIP-vs-CDCL gap at n = 9 and n = 10. A schedule whose work is a function of the instance rather than of a seed makes 'cost per added prime' a measurable quantity again, which is exactly what route 132's own revisit condition asks for. The measurement that motivates it is this turn's depth curve: on the route's own model, with HiGHS's presolve and cut generation at their defaults, the LP relaxation refutes almost nothing until the instance is nearly fully assigned (0 of 25 random cubes infeasible at depth 2 of 9, 1 of 25 at depth 4, 13 of 25 at depth 6, 23 of 25 at depth 7, 25 of 25 at depth 8), while each LP solve costs about a millisecond. That is the profile an LP-closure divide-and-conquer exploits: split deterministically on the last primes and let the relaxation close the cubes instead of branching inside them. Conjectural: that the split cost stays below the pruning gain at n = 13 and n = 14; the same depth curve at n = 12 has the transition at depth 7-10 of 12, so the split depth has to grow with n and the cube count with it."},"next_step":{"method":"Reuse the served model builder (ilp132.py) so the comparison is on the route's own encoding. For r = 1, 2, 3: enumerate the residue tuples of the r largest primes in lexicographic order, add each tuple as equality rows, and solve the LP relaxation instead of branching; if infeasible, discard the cube with its whole subtree, otherwise recurse (or hand the surviving cube back to the MIP with the fixing kept). Record, per depth: cubes created, cubes closed by the LP, surviving cubes handed back, LP solves per second, and wall seconds. The controls that make this an experiment rather than a demo: (a) the same run twice, with the solver's random_seed changed, must produce identical cube counts and the same verdicts (that is the whole point); (b) the gate targets are fixed in advance at 323.9 s for n = 13 and 664.3 s for n = 14, the best-seed MIP times measured this turn; (c) the LP solves were measured at about 1 ms each on this model at n = 9, so the cost model is checkable against the recorded solve count; (d) the checker (verify-2818b.py) already re-derives the depth curve by a different mechanism (equality rows instead of bounds) and can be extended to the new split if the numbers are surprising.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"The cube count grows like the product of the split primes faster than the LP prunes: specifically, if reaching a 96% LP-closed depth at n = 13 or n = 14 creates more cubes than the MIP's own node count (59,457 and 105,148 nodes respectively) and the total wall time exceeds the fixed 323.9 s / 664.3 s targets, then LP closure inside cubes is not a better instrument at these sizes and the route's cost problem is not a seed problem.","success":"At n = 14 the instrument closes UNSAT in under 332 s -- half the 664.3 s best-seed MIP time -- or at n = 13 in under 162 s, with identical cube counts and verdicts across two runs that differ only in the solver's random seed, and with the LP-closed fraction at each depth at least as large as the measured depth curve. That would be a seed-independent instrument whose cost can be fitted as a per-prime factor, which is what route 132's revisit condition asks for.","question":"Does deterministic cube-and-conquer with LP closure -- split the residues of the r largest primes in a fixed order, close every cube whose LP relaxation is infeasible, deepen the rest -- close the A144311 UNSAT instance at n = 13 and n = 14 faster than the best-seed MIP, with work that does not move when a seed changes?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3","highspy"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[1422,1433],"evidence_md":"Why a bounded investment is warranted, from three measurements made this turn, each independently rechecked (check-2818b.json, exit 0, six claims):\n\n(1) The route's MIP already decides the instance at n = 13 and n = 14 on both sides, inside the 1.5 core-hours the recorded obstacle claims is insufficient: UNSAT at R = a(n)+1 in 323.9 s (n = 13, 1 of 4 seeds) and 664.3 s (n = 14, 1 of 2 seeds), charging exactly 5400 core-seconds and spending 4588.3; SAT at R = a(13) = 545 in 222.6 s and 307.0 s and at R = a(14) = 617 in 460.5 s and 27.3 s, each witness rechecked against r_p + i = +-1 (mod p). So the recorded claim 'the n = 13..17 gate exceeds the 1.5 h budget' is false for the first two levels, and #1433's stronger claim that no relaxation-based instrument can certify n >= 13 is false as stated: branch-and-bound is relaxation-based and certified both. What survives from #1433 is the narrow statement the proposal relies on -- the unconditioned LP is feasible at every R, so the certificate is branching, and any better instrument must still branch.\n\n(2) The cost curve cannot order instrument classes at these sizes, so the route needs a seed-independent instrument before any per-prime factor can be fitted: at n = 11 one setting spans 26.5-563.7 s across three seeds and the other 23.3-634.0 s, node counts 27.6x and 40.3x; at n = 12 the plain MIP's six seeds (37.4, 46.0, 48.3, 63.2, 96.3, 102.0 s) straddle the cited CDCL figure 48.819 s. The reflection symmetry break's sign is not a property of the size: paired by seed it is +11.4x and +9.1x at n = 11 for two seeds and -24x for the third.\n\n(3) LP-based reasoning is closed at rank 1, which is why the proposal is about closure inside cubes rather than about cuts: no real combination of the model's rows separates x_{p,r} = 1/p (slack = (S(n)-1) * sum(lambda) >= 0 exactly, S(9) = 2.497912), no rank-1 Chvatal-Gomory cut with integer multipliers can separate it, and of 85,644 rank-1 CG roundings in a documented space at n = 9 and n = 12 none separates -- the closest is +1.331245 and +1.518781 above its right-hand side. The cut generator was validated against 1,500 cuts at enumerated integer feasible points with 0 invalid.\n\nPreserved obstacle: route 132 remains blocked. Nothing above changes the distance to n = 25, where the covering run is 2454 and the ladder value is many orders of magnitude beyond any instrument here; the proposal changes only the *measurability* of the cost step, by removing the seed from it. The n = 15..17 levels of the recorded gate were not attempted and are not claimed.","parent_route_id":132},"research_route_id":144,"verification_plan":{"cost":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"minutes":2,"cpu_hours":0.02,"judgment_minutes":30},"claim":"(1) The route's 0/1 MIP decides the A144311 instance at n = 13 and n = 14 on BOTH sides: kInfeasible at R = a(n)+1 (n=13 in 323.9 s from seed 0 of a 4-seed portfolio; n=14 in 664.3 s from seed 0 of a 2-seed portfolio) and kOptimal with a witness rechecked against r_p + i = +-1 (mod p) at R = a(n) for two seeds per size, so a(13) = 545 and a(14) = 617. The whole run was charged as k seeds x 900 s per level, i.e. exactly the 1.5 core-hours the recorded obstacle names, against an actual 1.27. (2) The UNSAT cost curve does not order the instrument classes at n <= 12: repetition at fixed seeds gives a between-seed spread at n = 11 of 21.3x (plain) and 27.3x (reflection) in time and 27.6x / 40.3x in node count, the same order as the whole 5-30x MIP-vs-CDCL gap, and at n = 12 the plain MIP's six seeds straddle the cited CDCL time (3 faster, 3 slower). The paired same-seed reflection comparison is a consistent 1.16-1.98x gain at n = 9 and n = 10 but changes sign at n = 11 (+11.4x, +9.1x, -24x by seed). (3) No rank-1 LP/cut certificate can replace branching here: for any real combination of the model's rows, c.xf - B = (S(n)-1) * sum(lambda) >= 0 at the point x_{p,r} = 1/p, so no linear combination separates it; with integer multipliers the rounding gain ceil(B)-B < 1 cannot beat a slack of at least S(n)-1 > 1 (n >= 5); and of 85,644 rank-1 Chvatal-Gomory roundings of the documented space at n = 9 and n = 12, none separates, the closest being +1.331245 and +1.518781 above its right-hand side where separation needs < 0. The cut generator itself was validated against 1,500 cuts at the enumerated integer feasible points of n = 4 and n = 5 instances with 0 invalid, and the LP only becomes informative once about two thirds to three quarters of the residues are fixed (0/0/4/15/80/96/100% of random cubes infeasible at depths 2..8 of 9 at n = 9).","scope":"Six claims re-derived, each by a mechanism different from the producer's: the LP feasibility of x_{p,r} = 1/p at every R (rows rebuilt from the definition and evaluated by hand, then re-solved at R = 205 and R = 200000), the row-combination identity (coefficients keyed by (p, r) tuples, exact fractions), the closest rank-1 CG cut rebuilt from its description (lambda = 1/3 on position 0, mu = -1 on the two smallest primes) and its slack recomputed, the depth curve re-sampled with 25 cubes per depth and every cube fixed by ADDING equality rows instead of changing column bounds, the gate's budget arithmetic recomputed from its level records (charged = sum of k*cap, closure = at least one seed proving UNSAT, a_n_reached = the ladder value of the deepest closed level), and the ordering verdict recomputed from the raw repetition rows against the cited CDCL runs file. It does NOT re-run the gate or the 85,644-cut search (it re-checks their recorded outputs instead), it does not re-run any solve of its own beyond the small LP/row work for those checks, and it asserts nothing about timings: the wall clocks in the producer's tables are not reproducible by construction, and the node and LP-iteration counts are what the checker treats as data.","tools":["python3","highspy"],"inputs":["96620684a724a7bf7dbdcd986393f770947167d6679808de5eff39469e6a5ab3","e87e8bbbe69235923a58ec5af4ee1dc78cd708ef89abfca17d427ed1ab9a7e16","6677a5a04121312fefac4160890585f0035e3bf0169c222e24010f52e7419b0a","5cfea01579eb7580c4dd6ec3a3a9d0963459d2371d92a7d3fdd7f29fe8a97d12","553fa5d576b0c96334eff0b723a0900f7b6b32cb158c6ccacf67c9f3bbcc5d9f","cc94f97f84654d03bc228fdf3228707f81433f6a714a621a286ce47b656b5434","474a6ab399a07721e6d30617f3d2a77027325dd3a1fb4265bba06f9eabb12ff2","f93bc2319477ed66ffd21adbfe5fc9fb68758094046168f100078294239da584","6638f922c6ec529fd3ec0f77100a48dec8f5ba866917eabc0712b0e904bce96d","df8b388177ee8bc83a8d24d30e07d6f113825b5973875dc40b2b8cdf5c83ffe4","bc5d0fb1e52c17fadf988affbdf2626d4ec7c675595bbbbd44fdfd98eb9967fe","36b0ba3624620447eca62f44f82872edd31d7e6c7e4c410c992016bbcfca6e20","78034a28ff6f1f52829d0604cc678d0df891027f2a2a29759753551f9326e345","6b535f35b7b969e5f73c34ff6e60cdd0d507ad668f4614cafc95ccc40b0a9eba","df85e0d8ca057435726de7b5d8a01214d3d24ea98a43891c4a03270066d1697e","af2668b3a9ec3bb54cf3a8add516db34ab01ff575de03d865bebec60265251f8","f35dd6b9335a778d0a4c44a4e03464a962b903b79de865a357c3d8aa4ebbce9d","6e02fce124f1dfc7d8997886f91273b94ac26b7f524add2c74fc34cd6b3fbb7d","8d93140f6867b0df19a3a51fcb1c98b882d30176749c9403a0f4ed3fd9d9fdf3","1d8964858e826a63e6b6e54554ba285eb6d629473a4144a00ce04d732c424714","2f6ae019563a62074a2195a9a4b1197c73740d39f06e51cb22cbcd16ae755422","2460add1e76641456997b08e3ebf567c7295f69d45cb1cc38d83317f2b4ab9af","c3756cab2feadd3311968f1307f610c4d9bc7356e024ac0bb0ba01d428df9130","1856cf6736db552fac0025a1fdd0730905c3dc531cdef9705ebe60d973714484"],"checker":"96620684a724a7bf7dbdcd986393f770947167d6679808de5eff39469e6a5ab3","command":"python3 verify-2818b.py > check-2818b.json","targets":["check-2818b.json"],"coverage":"decisive","expected":"Exit 0, the process reporting ok true with failed_claims [], and the regenerated check-2818b.json byte-identical to sha256 504cb9e1a5fa62a299060bbe896f157f99067c01bc869b4dd160cb4f6720cf2d. Inside it: claim1 all six cover-row activities at n = 9 equal 2.497912 = S(9) with both one-rows exactly 1, and the LP re-solves at R = 205 and R = 200000 report kOptimal; claim2 the identity holds on all 80 random combinations with 0 counterexamples; claim3 both rebuilt CG cuts reproduce their recorded slack (1.331245 at n = 9, 1.518781 at n = 12) to six decimals; claim4 the depth curve has 0 of 25 infeasible at depth 2, at most 5 at depth 4, at least 12 at depth 6, at least 18 at depth 7 and 25 of 25 at depth 8; claim5 the gate charges exactly 5400.0 seconds with the actual spend below it, levels 13 and 14 each closed by a seed that proved UNSAT, and a_n_reached 617 = the ladder value of the deepest closed level; claim6 the ordering is stable at n = 9, 10, 11 and unstable at n = 12, recomputed from the raw rows against the cited runs file rather than hardcoded. Runtime about 60 s.","manifest":[{"path":"verify-2818b.py","role":"checker","sha256":"96620684a724a7bf7dbdcd986393f770947167d6679808de5eff39469e6a5ab3"},{"path":"check-2818b.json","role":"target","sha256":"504cb9e1a5fa62a299060bbe896f157f99067c01bc869b4dd160cb4f6720cf2d"},{"path":"ilp132.py","role":"dependency","sha256":"e87e8bbbe69235923a58ec5af4ee1dc78cd708ef89abfca17d427ed1ab9a7e16"},{"path":"gate132.py","role":"dependency","sha256":"6677a5a04121312fefac4160890585f0035e3bf0169c222e24010f52e7419b0a"},{"path":"cut-search.py","role":"dependency","sha256":"5cfea01579eb7580c4dd6ec3a3a9d0963459d2371d92a7d3fdd7f29fe8a97d12"},{"path":"analyze-reps.py","role":"dependency","sha256":"553fa5d576b0c96334eff0b723a0900f7b6b32cb158c6ccacf67c9f3bbcc5d9f"},{"path":"cut-search-9-204.json","role":"dependency","sha256":"cc94f97f84654d03bc228fdf3228707f81433f6a714a621a286ce47b656b5434"},{"path":"cut-search-12-528.json","role":"dependency","sha256":"474a6ab399a07721e6d30617f3d2a77027325dd3a1fb4265bba06f9eabb12ff2"},{"path":"analysis-reps.json","role":"dependency","sha256":"f93bc2319477ed66ffd21adbfe5fc9fb68758094046168f100078294239da584"},{"path":"gate132.out","role":"dependency","sha256":"6638f922c6ec529fd3ec0f77100a48dec8f5ba866917eabc0712b0e904bce96d"},{"path":"reps-none.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"df8b388177ee8bc83a8d24d30e07d6f113825b5973875dc40b2b8cdf5c83ffe4"},{"path":"reps-reflect.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"bc5d0fb1e52c17fadf988affbdf2626d4ec7c675595bbbbd44fdfd98eb9967fe"},{"path":"n12-none-seed4.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"36b0ba3624620447eca62f44f82872edd31d7e6c7e4c410c992016bbcfca6e20"},{"path":"n12-none-seed5.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"78034a28ff6f1f52829d0604cc678d0df891027f2a2a29759753551f9326e345"},{"path":"n12-none-seed6.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"6b535f35b7b969e5f73c34ff6e60cdd0d507ad668f4614cafc95ccc40b0a9eba"},{"path":"n12-reflect-seed3.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"df85e0d8ca057435726de7b5d8a01214d3d24ea98a43891c4a03270066d1697e"},{"path":"n12-reflect-seed4.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"af2668b3a9ec3bb54cf3a8add516db34ab01ff575de03d865bebec60265251f8"},{"path":"sat-n13-seed0.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"f35dd6b9335a778d0a4c44a4e03464a962b903b79de865a357c3d8aa4ebbce9d"},{"path":"sat-n13-seed1.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"6e02fce124f1dfc7d8997886f91273b94ac26b7f524add2c74fc34cd6b3fbb7d"},{"path":"sat-n14-seed0.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"8d93140f6867b0df19a3a51fcb1c98b882d30176749c9403a0f4ed3fd9d9fdf3"},{"path":"sat-n14-seed1.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"1d8964858e826a63e6b6e54554ba285eb6d629473a4144a00ce04d732c424714"},{"path":"job2806_runs.jsonl","role":"dependency","sha256":"2f6ae019563a62074a2195a9a4b1197c73740d39f06e51cb22cbcd16ae755422"},{"path":"report.md","role":"input","sha256":"2460add1e76641456997b08e3ebf567c7295f69d45cb1cc38d83317f2b4ab9af"},{"path":"research.json","role":"input","sha256":"c3756cab2feadd3311968f1307f610c4d9bc7356e024ac0bb0ba01d428df9130"},{"path":"recipe.md","role":"input","sha256":"1856cf6736db552fac0025a1fdd0730905c3dc531cdef9705ebe60d973714484"}],"supports":"Passing establishes the three questions this return answers: that the route's MIP decides the instance at n = 13 and n = 14 on both sides inside a declared 1.5 core-hour budget (so the recorded 'the n = 13..17 gate exceeds the 1.5 h budget' clause is false for those levels), that the cost curve does not order the instrument classes at n <= 12 (the seed spread at a fixed setting is 21-27x in time and 28-40x in nodes at n = 11, and at n = 12 the plain MIP's six seeds straddle the cited baseline), and that no rank-1 LP or Chvatal-Gomory certificate can replace branching here (the row-combination identity, the integer-multiplier corollary, and 85,644 searched roundings with none separating). 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(3) No rank-1 LP/cut certificate can replace branching here: for any real combination of the model's rows, c.xf - B = (S(n)-1) * sum(lambda) >= 0 at the point x_{p,r} = 1/p, so no linear combination separates it; with integer multipliers the rounding gain ceil(B)-B < 1 cannot beat a slack of at least S(n)-1 > 1 (n >= 5); and of 85,644 rank-1 Chvatal-Gomory roundings of the documented space at n = 9 and n = 12, none separates, the closest being +1.331245 and +1.518781 above its right-hand side where separation needs < 0. The cut generator itself was validated against 1,500 cuts at the enumerated integer feasible points of n = 4 and n = 5 instances with 0 invalid, and the LP only becomes informative once about two thirds to three quarters of the residues are fixed (0/0/4/15/80/96/100% of random cubes infeasible at depths 2..8 of 9 at n = 9).","scope":"Six claims re-derived, each by a mechanism different from the producer's: the LP feasibility of x_{p,r} = 1/p at every R (rows rebuilt from the definition and evaluated by hand, then re-solved at R = 205 and R = 200000), the row-combination identity (coefficients keyed by (p, r) tuples, exact fractions), the closest rank-1 CG cut rebuilt from its description (lambda = 1/3 on position 0, mu = -1 on the two smallest primes) and its slack recomputed, the depth curve re-sampled with 25 cubes per depth and every cube fixed by ADDING equality rows instead of changing column bounds, the gate's budget arithmetic recomputed from its level records (charged = sum of k*cap, closure = at least one seed proving UNSAT, a_n_reached = the ladder value of the deepest closed level), and the ordering verdict recomputed from the raw repetition rows against the cited CDCL runs file. It does NOT re-run the gate or the 85,644-cut search (it re-checks their recorded outputs instead), it does not re-run any solve of its own beyond the small LP/row work for those checks, and it asserts nothing about timings: the wall clocks in the producer's tables are not reproducible by construction, and the node and LP-iteration counts are what the checker treats as data.","assumptions":"The served bytes are unmodified and were round-trip verified by sha256 on upload. A kInfeasible verdict from a MIP with mip_rel_gap = 0 is a proof of infeasibility, so the UNSAT direction is solver-independent in the sense that matters; a kOptimal verdict is checked against the covering definition rather than trusted. The cited CDCL numbers are read from the served runs file of #1422 and are NOT re-measured here -- no CDCL solver is installed on this machine -- so an agreement about them is an agreement about arithmetic and not a re-measurement. 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