{"id":2356,"job_id":5060,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #5060 (explore, discover, lane dir-558): the paired (kappa=2) reduced-residue gap law is unmeasured\n\n**Rung.** Every number quoted below is from the cited return; the *connection* itself is **heuristic**\nand comes with a self-contained falsifier. No new computation was run in this return (0 CPU-h): this is a\nscoped gap plus a bounded next experiment.\n\n## What was searched\n\n- `GET /return/2339` (route 191, outcome `known`, job 5034) and `GET /return/1875` (route 109, outcome\n  `verified`, job 4239); the 100-route register `GET /research-routes`; the open questions register.\n- Online prior art for the twin-set analogue of Cobeli-Vajaitu-Zaharescu (search record in\n  `prior_art_aa.md`).\n\n## The connection (neither return states it)\n\nRoute **143**'s moment dial turns its input `M_{2k}(h) <= x#*(B x^c k^(1+theta) mu)^k` into the exponent\n`G_kappa(x#) <= x^(1+theta+c+eps)`, for the **twin (kappa=2)** sieve. Route **191** proposed to certify that\ninput by the gap law being under-dispersed (`Var(D_x)/mu_x^2 <= 1-delta`, `delta>0` persistent). Return\n**#2339** closed the lever **for the ordinary (`kappa=1`) gaps**: Cobeli-Vajaitu-Zaharescu 2003 Thm 1.1 gives\nthe normalized ordinary gap CDF `-> 1-exp(-lambda)` at primorials, hence `liminf Var(D_x)/mu_x^2 >= 1`, so a\npersistent `Var/mu^2 <= 1-delta` is impossible there. #2339 states literally that **\"Paired gaps and the\ncovering-function bridge remain unresolved\"**, and route 191's own text says the paired `kappa=2` system \"was\nnot measured here\".\n\nThat is the gap: the CVZ limit argument is specific to a subgroup-like set of density `phi(q)/q`. The paired\nset `{n : gcd(n(n+2), q)=1}`, density `prod_{p|q}(1-2/p)`, is the object route 143's twin input actually\nneeds, and **its central moments are on no route and no return** (only route 191 mentions `Var/mu` at all).\nRoute **109 / #1875** supplies an *at-scale, independent* probe of the same kappa=2 dispersion — the HL\nsecond-moment shortfall of twin counts, 5-19% below leading order at `10^7-2e10` (#1322), reduced to\n**+0.58 sigma** once the deterministic drift is in the null (review 243; #1859's closed-form drift), with a\npossible genuine `~1/ln X` term still open.\n\n## What it changes\n\nA persistent kappa=2 under-dispersion certifies route 143's twin moment input by route 191's mechanism and\nprices route 109's residual shortfall; a kappa=2 `Var/mu^2 -> 1` shows the calibrated majorant is essentially\noptimal at these rungs, killing the lever for kappa=2 as CVZ killed it for kappa=1, and leaving route 109's\nshortfall to its secondary-term explanation. Either outcome is a decisive, cheap statement about the twin\nsieve's memoryless calibration, which is what the exponent route needs to know.\n\n## The gap that remains\n\nWhether the paired (kappa=2) gap law's `Var/mu^2` is bounded away from 1 with a persistent sign, or converges\nto 1 like the ordinary gap law. No source - project or literature - measures it. The bounded next experiment\nand its pre-registered falsifier are in the `research` block.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-05T22:15:33.656Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2339,"1":1875,"2":1859,"3":1322},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"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":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"The paired (kappa=2) reduced-residue gap law: is the memoryless calibration of route 143's moment dial escapable on the twin set?","prior_art_md":"Search 2026-10-06, this run (web search; 4 queries, results read at snippet level unless noted).\nQueries and outcomes:\n1. \"distribution of gaps between reduced residues modulo q primorial limit theorem Cobeli Vajaitu Zaharescu\"\n   -> CVZ 2003 recovered (ResearchGate/Semanticscholar records; the project already cites it via #2339 and\n   route 180). Confirms the kappa=1 limit exists and is the object #2339 used.\n2. \"gaps between integers coprime to q twin prime pairs n(n+2) distribution limit exponential\"\n   -> nearest hits are prime-gap heuristics (Cohen 2024, Experimental Math, Cramer/Shanks) and\n   \"twin coprime pair\" terminology (arXiv:2111.09053, On twin prime distribution and associated biases),\n   which study prime-pair biases, NOT the gap law of the paired reduced-residue set gcd(n(n+2),q)=1.\n   No paired analogue of CVZ found.\n3. \"arXiv 2011.07582 Cobeli gaps inverses mod q title\" -> the modern inverse-gap literature\n   (Garaev 2023 arXiv:2304.07953, Baier 2012 arXiv:1208.3393) is about distribution of inverses in short\n   intervals/APs, not about the paired set's gap moments.\n4. \"second moment number of twin primes Hardy-Littlewood prediction variance intervals numerical\"\n   -> probabilistic/heuristic treatments (arXiv:2303.17998; Cohen 2016 Taylor's law) and Tao's probabilistic\n   models, i.e. the HL second-moment side (route 109's object), not the paired gap law.\nACCESS GAPS: CVZ 2003's sections 7-8 (the proof) not retrieved; Cobeli's later work not inspected; general\ntopic searches at snippet level. A literature search with no match is evidence about the search, not\nnovelty. EXACT UNCOVERED STEP: the central-moment spectrum (at least Var/mu^2) of the gap law of the paired\nreduced residues gcd(n(n+2),q)=1 at primorials - the kappa=2 analogue of #2339's object - appears in no\nsource inspected and in no project route (grep of the 100-route register for `Var/mu` matches route 191 only).","uncertainty_md":"Weakest unproved assumption: the BRIDGE (route 191's own caveat, inherited). That the paired gap\nlaw's central moments bear on route 143's covering-function shift-moments M_2k(h) is CONJECTURAL, not proved\nhere. This route therefore measures a finite diagnostic of the memoryless calibration; it does not assert the\ndial's hypothesis, and a positive reading is not a proof of the dial.\n\nSecond: the kappa=2 gap law may converge to a limit other than Exp(1). Then Var/mu^2 is neither 1 nor a\npersistent constant, and the census decides only the rung range 11#..23#, not an asymptotic. This is why the\npre-registered falsifier is a TREND test over four+ primorials, and a flat non-convergent reading is recorded\nas inconclusive rather than as support.\n\nThird: finite reach. Route 191's kappa=1 census lived at 11#..23#; 29# already has ~4.3e8 paired residues, so\na full-period paired census is bounded to roughly 23# (and 29# only for a window). A window census is\nvulnerable to the non-uniformity of the paired set near the ends of [1,q]; use the full period at 11#..23#.\n\nFourth: the control. Route 191 used no matched null for the kappa=1 diagnostic; a permutation/independent-\nthinning control on the paired gap multiset must be added so a near-1 reading cannot be an artefact of the\nperiod structure.\n\nNone of these can make the census lie: the experiment is exact integer gap enumeration, and its own outputs\n(Var/mu^2 and the third/fourth moment ratios) are reproducible from the served wheel instrument.","contribution_md":"A cross-lane connection plus a precisely scoped gap that neither source states. Route 191\nsupplied a lever (gap-law under-dispersion improves route 143's moment dial) and return #2339 closed that\nlever ONLY for the ordinary (kappa=1) reduced residues via Cobeli-Vajaitu-Zaharescu 2003, explicitly leaving\nthe PAIRED (kappa=2) system unmeasured. Route 143's twin moment input is precisely a kappa=2 object. Route\n109 / #1875 gives an at-scale, independent kappa=2 dispersion (HL second-moment shortfall), but a different\nstatistic. None of the 193 routes measures the paired gap-law central moments. The route proposed is the\nmissing, cheap, exact census of that law with a pre-registered trend falsifier, tied to the exponent route\nthrough route 143 and to the measurement lane through route 109. Deliverable: one dimensionless number per\nprimorial, Var/mu^2 of the paired gap law, plus its matched-null rank. It settles only the memoryless\ncalibration of the twin sieve at these rungs, uniform in k at fixed rung - nothing asymptotic."},"next_step":{"method":"Reuse route 191's exact gap-census instrument (ordinary reduced-residue gap enumeration) extended to the paired set: for q = 11#,13#,17#,19#,23# build the wheel-eligible residues n in [1,q] with gcd(n(n+2),q)=1, order them cyclically, and compute the exact integer central moments of the gap law D_x (mean mu=q/N_2, Var(D_x)/mu^2, and the standardised 3rd and 4th moments). Add a matched null: K=500 seeded random permutations/independent-thinning relabelings of the paired gap multiset, recomputing Var/mu^2 each draw, and report the real value's rank and z. Report the kappa=1 values from #2339's range alongside, on the SAME instrument, so the kappa=1 -> kappa=2 contrast is measured at the same rungs.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1},"failure":"Var/mu^2 decreases monotonically toward 1 across 11#..23# and the top-rung matched-null z is inside +/-2, i.e. the paired gap law is memoryless like the kappa=1 law. Then the memoryless majorant is essentially optimal at this rung scale, the lever is dead for kappa=2 as CVZ killed it for kappa=1, and route 109's residual shortfall must be a secondary-term effect (#1875/#1859) rather than gap-law under-dispersion.","success":"Four or more primorials give Var/mu^2 bounded away from 1 with a consistent sign (and a matched-null z outside +/-2 at the top two rungs), i.e. a persistent paired gap-law dispersion, so route 191's lever has a live kappa=2 target for route 143's moment input.","question":"Is the gap law of the paired reduced residues {n : gcd(n(n+2), q)=1} at primorials persistently under- or over-dispersed (Var/mu^2 bounded away from 1 with a stable sign), or does Var/mu^2 -> 1 as for the ordinary reduced residues closed by #2339?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"evidence_md":"FETCHED THIS RUN (0 CPU-h, endpoints only; files under work/served/):\n- GET /return/2339 -> served/return_2339.json. Route 191, outcome `known`, job 5034, author_rung heuristic,\n  final_rung recorded. Quotes: \"Paired gaps and the covering-function bridge remain unresolved.\"; route 191's\n  \"the paired kappa=2 system used by routes 186/187/188 was not measured here\"; and the CVZ citation with\n  liminf Var(D_x)/mu_x^2 >= 1.\n- GET /return/1875 -> served/return_1875.json. Route 109 step check, outcome `known`, job 4239, author_rung\n  verified. Quotes: R_drift = 0.84338 vs prediction 0.84234, +0.58 sigma (was +8.86); \"The live question is\n  whether HL's second moment carries a genuine ~1/ln X (~4 %) secondary term\".\n- GET /research-routes -> served/research-routes.json (100 routes). grep: ONLY route 191 mentions `Var/mu`;\n  no route title/next_step measures the kappa=2 paired gap-law central moments. Route 180 already cites the\n  Cobeli-Zaharescu reduced-residue gap distribution (a linked route to read).\n- GET /questions -> served/questions.json.\n\nTHE GAP. Route 143's moment dial consumes M_2k(h) for the TWIN (kappa=2) covering sieve. Route 191's\nunder-dispersion lever was closed for the ORDINARY (kappa=1) gap law by CVZ 2003 (limit Exp(1), so\nliminf Var/mu^2 >= 1). The paired set gcd(n(n+2),q)=1 has density prod_{p|q}(1-2/p), is not the object of\nthat theorem, and its gap-law central moments are measured by no return. Route 109 (#1875) measures a\nDIFFERENT kappa=2 dispersion (twin-count second moment at 10^7-2e10), so it does not supply this either.\n\nSOURCE LINKS / LOCATORS.\n- C. Cobeli, M. Vajaitu, A. Zaharescu, Distribution of gaps between the inverses mod q, Proc. Edinb. Math.\n  Soc. 46 (2003) 185-203, DOI 10.1017/S0013091501000724, Thm 1.1 p.187 (cited from #2339; not independently\n  read here - access gap: publisher PDF not retrieved).\n- Project: #2339, #1875, #1859, #1322, review 243; routes 191, 143, 109, 186, 187, 188, 180.\n\nEVIDENCE GRADES. #2339 final_rung `recorded` (an investment assessment, explicitly not a mathematical\nverdict); #1875 author_rung `verified`. The connection is heuristic and labelled as such."},"research_route_id":194,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_49ac81a1e26dc7924a07641d","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New route.** Read the closed-routes register (`research/OUTCOMES.md`, section \"Closed routes\") and the open questions (`GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`). Search online for the route, equivalent formulations, previous attempts and published computations before proposing to try it. Draft one route to the target exponent or to the infinitude statement that adds something to the record, or changes a specific assumption or ingredient in a previously blocked route: the object, the step that would have to hold, the first check that could refute it cheaply, and what it would cost to run. Include it as `research.proposal` in this explore return, with the nearest prior work, exact difference and bounded next experiment.\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. Otherwise call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once with this run's saved headers for the next authorized assignment. 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