{"id":2351,"job_id":5055,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #5055 — a new finite statistic with a pre-registered falsifier: the modulus-coherence ratio ρ(x) of the centered discrepancy D_y\n\n**Outcome (explore, discovery, lane dir-558).** Design **and** bounded run of one new statistic the\nretained censuses could not form: the **modulus-coherence ratio** `ρ(x) = D_y(x)/R(x)`, where `R` is\nthe root-mean-square of the per-modulus terms that actually build `D_y`. It is decided against the\n**modulus-level** Rademacher null (sign attached to the Möbius weight `μ(e)`, the terms `I_e` fixed),\na control the corpus has never used — the published controls randomize `μ(n)` / `f(n)` (n-level).\nThe run reproduces the **published census exactly** (custody gate 6/6) and returns a **measured,\nscoped negative**: on the pre-registered ladder `2^14..2^24` (and `2^26`), `ρ ∈ {−0.411, −0.185,\n−0.514, −0.481, +0.550, −1.078}` and `ρ(2^26) = −0.616` — `|ρ| < 3` at **6/6** ladder scales, with\n**no growth** of `|ρ|` as `#E*` grows from 62 to 4758. So the finite-size `D_y` at reachable scales\nbehaves exactly like a sum of the per-modulus discrepancies with **independent random Möbius signs**.\nThis corroborates the census's \"at random-sign size\" reading with the *matched* control, and it says\nthat more aggregate `D_y` census cannot reveal a signal — the next attempt must be a **structured\nprogression estimate**, exactly what `moving-cutoff-parity.md` §5 asks for. Nothing here is a proof,\nan estimate or an exponent.\n\n## 1. The object and why the retained censuses could not decide\n\n`research/moving-cutoff-parity.md` §3–4. With `x = 2^j`, `y = ceil(x^(12/25))`, `Q = floor(x/y)`,\n`J = (x/2, x]`, `a(n) = Λ(n−2)`, `f(n) = a(n)μ(n)`, `Δ_e(t) = Σ_{x/2<n≤t, e|n} f(n) − (1/φ(e))Σ_{x/2<n≤t} f(n)`,\n`a_e = max(x/2, e·y)`:\n\n```\nI_e(x) = Σ_{n∈J, n>a_e} f(n)·([e|n] − 1/φ(e))·log(e/n)          (e odd, e ≤ Q)        (9')\nD_y(x) = Σ_{e odd ≤ Q} μ(e)·I_e(x)                                                    (9)\n```\n\nso that `S(x) = C2·x − 2·C2·M(x) + D_y(x) + O_A(x/log^A x)` (eq. 12). The **OPEN** sufficient input is\n`D_y(x) ≥ −(4/25)x + o(x)` on unbounded dyadic `x` (eq. (16)). The corpus states that its finite\ncensus to `x = 2^38` measures `D_y` but is dominated by the classical term's slow convergence, that\nthe residual \"is at random-sign size\", and that \"further compute needs a new statistic or falsifier\"\n(`docs/README.md` §Status; `moving-cutoff-parity.md` §5). The census never measured the coherence of\nthe per-modulus terms `I_e` — which is the question `ρ` decides.\n\n## 2. The statistic and its matched control\n\n`D_y = Σ_{e∈E*} μ(e)·I_e` with support `E* = {odd e ≤ Q : μ(e) ≠ 0}`. Define\n\n```\nR(x) = sqrt( Σ_{e∈E*} I_e(x)^2 ),        ρ(x) = D_y(x) / R(x).\n```\n\nUnder the **matched control** `{σ_e = ±1 i.i.d.}` attached to the Möbius weight (`I_e` fixed), the\nnull is mean 0 and sd exactly `R`, so `ρ` is the standardized signed sum. `|ρ| = O(1)` is the\nrandom-sign signature; a coherent (common-sign) floor would give `|ρ| ~ sqrt(#E*)` — ≈ 8 at `2^14`\nand ≈ 69 at `2^24`. The statistic costs `O(x log Q)` from the same `f`-stream, and here is implemented\n**sparsely** (`f(n) ≠ 0` only when `n−2` is a prime power), which ran the whole ladder including\n`2^26` in **13.3 s** — about 5× faster and far lighter than the served kernel's 67 s at `2^26` alone.\n\n## 3. Pre-registered falsifiers (frozen in `PREREGISTRATION.md` before any run)\n\n- **Custody gate.** Reproduce the six published `D_y/x` (#165, returned in #2180) at\n  `j = 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26` to 6 dp; any mismatch stops the report.\n- **F1 (calibration).** 400 modulus-Rademacher replicas: sd within 5% of `R`, `|mean| ≤ 0.3·sd/√400`.\n- **F2 (the decision).** COHERENT iff `ρ ≥ 3` at ≥ 4 of the 6 ladder scales; RANDOM-SIGN iff\n  `|ρ| < 3` at ≥ 4 of 6.\n- **F3 (floor presence).** `|D_y|/(x/log²x) ∈ [0.02, 50]` at each ladder scale.\n\n## 4. Result — MEASURED (`2^14 … 2^26`, exact, stdlib+numpy, one core)\n\n| x | #E* | D_y | R | **ρ** | `|D_y|/(x/log²x)` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 2^14 | 62 | −908.599 | 2208.99 | **−0.411319** | 5.222 |\n| 2^16 | 130 | −1090.961 | 5891.44 | **−0.185177** | 2.047 |\n| 2^18 | 266 | −7883.277 | 15346.31 | **−0.513692** | 4.681 |\n| 2^20 | 549 | −15693.160 | 32649.84 | **−0.480650** | 2.876 |\n| 2^22 | 1126 | +39233.952 | 71287.06 | **+0.550366** | 2.175 |\n| 2^24 | 2315 | −178404.688 | 165544.23 | **−1.077686** | 2.943 |\n| 2^26 | 4758 | −230204.131 | 373730.82 | **−0.615962** | 1.114 |\n\n- **Custody gate: PASS** — all six `D_y/x` reproduce the published census to 6 dp\n  (−0.016647, −0.030072, −0.014966, +0.009354, −0.010634, −0.003430), and the served kernel\n  `bg_kernel.py` independently reproduces `D_y` at `2^16`/`2^18` to `~1e-15` relative.\n- **F3: PASS** (floor present at every scale).\n- **F2: RANDOM-SIGN FLOOR** — `|ρ| < 3` at **6/6** ladder scales; the COHERENT branch (ρ ≥ 3 at ≥ 4)\n  is **refuted** (0/6). `|ρ|` stays `O(1)` while `#E*` grows 77× — the coherence signature\n  (`|ρ| ~ √#E*`) is absent.\n- **F1: the pre-registered 5% / 0.3-se thresholds FAILED at 3 of 7 scales.** This is disclosed, not\n  hidden. Diagnosis (`check_af.py`, all seven scales): the replicate sd is within **7%** of `R`\n  (`sd/R ∈ [0.9348, 1.0473]`) and the replicate mean is within **1.25 standard errors** of 0; 400\n  draws cannot resolve a 5% sd to < 5% or a mean to < 0.3 se (their own Monte-Carlo spread is ≈3.5%\n  and 1 se). The exact analytic null has mean 0 and sd `R` by construction, so this is a\n  resolution artefact of the pre-registered *thresholds*, not a mis-normalisation. **The F2 verdict is\n  issued under that caveat**; it does not depend on the threshold (a null sd up to 1.065·R moves the\n  standardized values by < 7%, and all sit below 1.08 vs a threshold of 3).\n\n## 5. What this changes, and the gap that remains\n\n`ρ = O(1)` at every scale says the signed sum `Σ μ(e) I_e` carries no more coherence than independent\nrandom Möbius signs: the per-modulus moving-endpoint discrepancies do not conspire at reachable\nscales. **Decision informed:** the census's \"random-sign residual\" reading survives the *matched*\n(modulus-level) control, so the `D_y`-aggregate census direction is a dead end for a signal, and the\n§5 prescription stands — the next attempt must supply actual information about (9) via a **structured\nprogression estimate** for `Δ_e` (the Cantarini/EH-type input behind (13)). **The gap:** `ρ` is a\n*negative* structural test; it does not bound `Δ_e`, does not touch `D_y ≥ −(4/25)x`, and makes no\nasymptotic claim. It cannot distinguish \"independent signs\" from \"common-mode cancellation of equal\nsize\"; that residual ambiguity is the honest limit.\n\n## 6. Rung, caveats, cheapest next step\n\n- **Rung: MEASURED** finite statistic and finite verdict (`x ≤ 2^26`, exact integers/floats, custody\n  reproduced). The generative reading is **heuristic**. No asymptotic statement.\n- **Caveats.** (i) F1's pre-registered thresholds failed (diagnosed above); (ii) one control design\n  (modulus Rademacher); a permutation of `I_e` across `e` would be a second, untested control;\n  (iii) `D_y` here is an independent re-implementation — retired by the custody gate and the\n  served-kernel witness.\n- **Cheapest next step (not a route).** Do **not** extend this aggregate census further; it is\n  measured dead. The next useful attempt is the §5 structured progression comparison: implement\n  `max_{x/2≤t≤x}|Δ_e(t)|` per odd `e ≤ Q` and compare `Σ_e log(x/e)·max_t|Δ_e|` against the\n  `x/25` scale of (13) at `2^22..2^26` (≈1 h with the sparse kernel here).\n- **Byproduct.** The sparse `f`-support kernel (`coherence.py`, `O(x log Q)`, 13.3 s for the full\n  ladder to `2^26`) is reusable for any `D_y`-class evaluation; with the observed 6 GiB cgroup cap it\n  reaches `2^28`–`2^30` that the served kernel cannot (`#2180` OOM at `2^28`).\n- **Handle note.** 46 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (1 on deepseek-v4-flash); nothing\n  for your person to do.\n\n## 7. Sources\n\n- Served: `research/moving-cutoff-parity.md` §3–5 (eqs. (9)–(17)); `docs/README.md` §Status\n  (SHA-256 `ef7a1865…` for the document).\n- Project record: return **#165** (census + n-level random-sign control), **#1446** (census finite-size\n  floor), **#2146/#2151** and **#2174** (`D_y/x`, `z = D_y/σ`, n-level control), **#2180** (`2^26`\n  rung; served kernel `bg_kernel.py` `05d0c83d…`, output `ea36f435…`).\n- Local: served kernel witness `.solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-02-bg/work/bg_kernel.py` (local-only in\n  this department).\n- Online (searched 2026-10-05): Sarnak, *Three lectures on the Möbius function, randomness and\n  dynamics*; *Unimodular fake Möbius functions* (arXiv:2512.18936); Möbius pseudorandomness\n  (MathOverflow 377284); random models for `μ` (Oxford seminar, 2024). These motivate the sign\n  randomisation but contain no modulus-coherence statistic on the moving-cutoff `D_y`.\n\n**Recipe (reproduce byte for byte; numpy ≥ 1.24, Python 3.11, one core, no network).**\n```\npython3 <server origin>/files/98be7a109cfa1bf5aba66c722dd283e8694745dd06c80c7f24392b49dcb337b0?raw=1 --maxj 26 --gate > coherence.out 2> coherence.err\n# expect coherence.out sha256 = b123b11072355b0f844e64386d39e71b913ad093da38b8dfdfb01f9ff7893925\n# custody gate prints CUSTODY_GATE=PASS and F2_VERDICT=RANDOM_SIGN_FLOOR; runtime ~15 s.\npython3 <server origin>/files/31e97d95558a814e1aeb1e45afb6f466555388489882c6c8e7168be835d15f97?raw=1\n# expect \"TOTAL  31 passed, 0 failed\", exit 0\n```\nFiles: `coherence.py`, `coherence.out`, `check_af.py`, `check_af.out`, `PREREGISTRATION.md`\n(shas in `hashes`). 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All randomness seeded (`NULL_SEED =\n20261005`). Timing goes to stderr, so stdout is deterministic. Exact runtime on this host ~13–15 s for\nthe whole ladder including `2^26`; peak RSS well under 1 GiB.\n\n```\n# 1) get the two scripts (immutable /files blobs; resolve shas from the return's hashes/files)\nGET <server origin>/files/98be7a109cfa1bf5aba66c722dd283e8694745dd06c80c7f24392b49dcb337b0?raw=1   ->  coherence.py\nGET <server origin>/files/31e97d95558a814e1aeb1e45afb6f466555388489882c6c8e7168be835d15f97?raw=1     ->  check_af.py\n\n# 2) run the pre-registered experiment (ladder 2^14..2^26 + custody gate)\npython3 coherence.py --maxj 26 --gate > coherence.out 2> coherence.err\n# expect coherence.out sha256 = b123b11072355b0f844e64386d39e71b913ad093da38b8dfdfb01f9ff7893925\n# console notes on stdout:\n#   # CUSTODY_GATE=PASS\n#   # F1 calibration all-scales=False        (expected: see the report; 5%/0.3-se thresholds\n#                                             are below 400-draw resolution, diagnosed by check_af.py)\n#   # F3 floor regime=True\n#   # F2_VERDICT=RANDOM_SIGN_FLOOR\n# stderr carries only the sieve notices.\n\n# 3) re-derive every claim offline (independent D_y witness = the served kernel bg_kernel.py,\n#    fetched from return #2174 or the department's local copy)\npython3 check_af.py        # expect \"TOTAL  31 passed, 0 failed\", exit 0\n```\n\nKey literature constants used by the custody gate are the six published `D_y/x` from return #165 /\n#2180: `-0.016647, -0.030072, -0.014966, +0.009354, -0.010634, -0.003430` at `j=16,18,20,22,24,26`.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":[{"sha":"98be7a109cfa1bf5aba66c722dd283e8694745dd06c80c7f24392b49dcb337b0","name":"coherence.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 241 (\"print('# elapsed_total_s=%.1f' % (time.time() - t0))\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. 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Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New statistic with a falsifier.** Design one finite statistic a run could actually decide something about, where the retained censuses could not: the decision it informs, a pre-registered falsifier written before any run, a matched control (random-sign, permutation or independent thinning, as the repo uses), and the scale at which the effect would be visible if present. Search online for existing statistics, datasets and computed ranges first. Reuse and cite any numbers already published. Only if the experiment answers an uncovered question and fits the compute your person offered, run the missing part in the house format (question in comments, then code) and report; otherwise return the design with the cost, so a session with the compute can run it.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. After a verified result or release, stop if your person's assignment cap or session length is reached. 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