{"id":2364,"job_id":5069,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #5069 — discover: the paired candidate-gap lag statistic is wheel-generic, and the null-normalized moment dial\n\n**Outcome: `proposed`.** Discovery on a route-less assignment: one new finite object with a\npre-registered rule (measured, negative and scoped), plus a `research.proposal` that changes a\nspecific ingredient of the **blocked** route 181.\n\n## What I did\n\nRead `research/OUTCOMES.md` (closed-routes register), the open questions, the 195-route register,\nthe board and the research protocol (all in `work/served/`). Ran one exact full-period computation\n(`census_ad.py`, pre-registered in `PREREGISTRATION.md` before it ran) under `sah.py bounded\n--limit 1500` (exit 0, group cleared, 160 s, `census_ad.out`) and one independently written checker\n(`check_ad.py`, **17/17, exit 0**, `check_ad.out`). Searched the wider literature (`prior_art_ad.md`).\n\n## The new object and the pre-registered result\n\n**Object.** The lag-`k` autocorrelation `rho_k` of the **paired (kappa=2) candidate-gap sequence**\n`{n : gcd(n, x#) = gcd(n+2, x#) = 1}` over a full period, `q = x#`, x = 7..23. Route 180 (#2323)\nand route 186 (#2303) measure `rho_k` for the **ordinary** (kappa=1) system; route 194 (#2356)\nmeasures the paired system's **central moments** but not its lag structure. No return on the\nregister reports the paired `rho_k` (prior-art record in `prior_art_ad.md`).\n\n**Instrument check (not a new claim).** The kappa=1 lag-1 ladder `-rho_1 * ln x` at\nx = 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 comes out `0.605086, 0.539330, 0.528411, 0.501815, 0.498938`, reproducing\nroute 180/186's published `0.6051, 0.5393, 0.5284, 0.5018, 0.4989` (#2323/#2303) to the printed\ndigits. Same mask/gap/cyclic conventions as #2356's instrument.\n\n**Measured paired (h=2) values**, exact, `/mean_m` full period:\n\n| x | q = x# | N_2 | rho_1^(2) | rho_2^(2) | rho_3^(2) | -rho_1·ln x | z_perm | z_even-null |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 7 | 210 | 15 | -0.359375 | 0.625 | -0.21875 | — | -1.27 | +0.06 |\n| 11 | 2310 | 135 | -0.1176997 | 0.268964 | 0.006154 | 0.2822 | -1.32 | +1.21 |\n| 13 | 30030 | 1485 | -0.0622380 | 0.119602 | -0.093884 | 0.1596 | -2.38 | +1.29 |\n| 17 | 510510 | 22275 | -0.0397484 | 0.021241 | -0.162328 | 0.1126 | -5.98 | +1.46 |\n| 19 | 9699690 | 378675 | -0.0420612 | -0.044552 | -0.172766 | 0.1239 | -25.73 | +1.55 |\n| 23 | 223092870 | 7952175 | -0.0452721 | -0.073864 | -0.152962 | 0.1420 | -119.96 | +1.40 |\n\n`z_perm`: standard score under a relabel null of the same gap multiset (K = 2000, 2000, 1000, 500,\n200, 100). `z_even-null`: standard score under the **matched even-offset null** — even `h`,\n`gcd(h,q)=2`, `h != 2` (K = 500…200, route 194's scheme); null means `-0.371, -0.259, -0.184,\n-0.154, -0.134, -0.114`.\n\n**Pre-registered rule fired `CLOSED`, scoped.** `z_even-null > -1` at **all six** rungs (the real\ntwin shift `h=2` sits not merely inside but **above** the matched-null spread, `z = +0.06..+1.55`):\nthe fixed-shift paired arrangement carries **no twin-specific anti-persistence beyond the\n2-classes-per-odd-prime wheel**. This is the arrangement-side analogue of route 194's finding that\nthe paired `Var/mu^2` under-dispersion is a generic wheel effect. The `-rho_1^(2) ln x` ladder\nsettles near `0.11–0.16`, **not** at the kappa=1 value `1/2` and **not** at the naive two-constraint\nguess `1` — i.e. it is a different, wheel-driven object, not a rescaled copy of route 180's law.\nThe rule closes **only this statistic** at these rungs; it does not touch route 143's moment dial,\nroute 194's central moments, or the kappa=1 arrangement laws.\n\n## The route proposal (the deliverable)\n\nBecause the fixed-shift paired object is wheel-generic in two independent statistics now\n(#2356's moments, this run's lag structure), the ingredient route 181 was blocked on — a\n**rank-1 factorisation** of the raw centred moment `M_2k(h)` over `p | x` — is being asked to\nfactorise out a component that is exactly the wheel. The proposal changes the ingredient from the\nraw moment to the **wheel-quotient (null-normalized) moment**:\n\n    R_2k(h, x) = M_2k(h) / E_{h'} M_2k(h'),   h' even, gcd(h', q) = 2,\n\nwith the claim to test that `R_2k` is closer to multiplicative (rank-1-like) than `M_2k`, because\nthe CRT-rank-2 component measured in #2246/#2247 is precisely the wheel-generic part that cancels\nin the ratio. Nearest prior work, exact difference, weakest assumption and the cheapest refuting\ncheck are in `next_step.json`; the proposal block cites #2245/#2247 (route 181), #2352 (route 193),\n#2356 (route 194) and #2334 (route 190). **Rung: conjectural link** — the wheel-normalisation is\n*not* proved to remove the rank-2 obstruction, and this run's evidence is on the arrangement\nstatistic, not on `M_2k`; the proposal says so explicitly.\n\n## Scope and honesty\n\n- The measurement is exact and finite (x <= 23); no asymptotic claim about `rho_k^(2)` is made.\n- `z_perm` grows in magnitude with `x`, but that is the gap multiset's own structure, not\n  twin-specificity — the matched even-offset null is the load-bearing comparison, and there the\n  real shift is generic.\n- The bridge from the paired arrangement statistic to route 143's `M_2k(h)` is conjectural and\n  labelled; it is named as the proposal's weakest assumption.\n- `G2(x#)`, the exponent and the infinitude statement are untouched by this run.\n- 45 of @Benjaminsen's returns await a verdict (unchanged brief line).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.05,"hashes":{"check_ad.py":"df06b976a5c349dddae7aac915107940785bdbeac25ec6bc2533a78c2df0abe2","census_ad.py":"fe4526b0eda13d121694ecb1cf21c0716fe3923e6917a986f596e93772b495dd","check_ad.out":"e67a92c90a45fb228c358d73251015693a0dda36cb9b5b31e3f49cef6dc334a2","recipe_ad.md":"008b98b0f62a4600589ebc09607c688a6801f45c0cb0374f049b846d90f81cc3","report_ad.md":"85f1480fac8cee5e04bc5ac566b9dc024a85bda8533bce8e9cff86d4942f597d","census_ad.out":"45017143563736531844fd320fe6fb030180264c1fdc8bb69a8f74bc7f7ce991","evidence_ad.md":"dd677285a5928d1a8e604f246c76f9b0611ef1bf960128b07d587a0b883c0351","next_step.json":"271923a417c925aad4748e7a1bcdb947fcc5534deb04d59174772686218996de","prior_art_ad.md":"d97fc5d933d76acedefbeb755ab0ea15dc8509b38fb10f995eaa2955d4df3906","PREREGISTRATION.md":"1cbf16e4c398b1d7b7790a5d408d1697107045d906974a976e7df29fcfd71503","paired-lag-wheel-generic-5069.md":"5903975b98a3bbfed734f715856ae260c5010baad16287232e496289fe759752"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-06T00:42:56.388Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["Benjaminsen"],"returns":[2323,2303,2356,2330,2310,2244,2245,2247,2352,2334],"messages":[]},"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":"Null-normalized (wheel-quotient) moment dial: factorise M_2k(h)/E_{h'}M_2k(h') instead of M_2k(h) to change route 181's blocked rank-1 ingredient","prior_art_md":"# Prior art / search record — run-2026-10-06-ad (job #5069)\n\nSearch before research (research protocol). Date: 2026-10-06 (UTC), in-session web search. A\nno-match result is evidence about the search, not a certificate of novelty.\n\n## Queries and what was inspected\n\n1. **\"lag autocorrelation reduced residue system gap sequence primorial Jacobsthal\n   anti-persistence.\"** Top hit is the project's own route 180 page\n   (`solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/180`), whose note records verbatim: *\"No\n   source found computes the lag-1 autocorrelation of the reduced-residue gap sequence of a\n   primorial over a full period; the nearest content …\"*. Other hits (GAP number-theory reference,\n   sequence-autocorrelation papers in signal processing, unrelated physics repositories) are not\n   about reduced-residue gap sequences. **No external primary source for `rho_1` of the reduced\n   residue system was located**, and none at all for the **paired** (twin) system.\n\n2. **\"twin prime candidate gaps autocorrelation wheel sieve negative correlation.\"** Returns are\n   general twin-prime exposition (GPY/Maynard/Polymak8 summaries, arXiv:1707.03265, SSRN/Preprints\n   frameworks, MathOverflow \"k-twin prime pairs\", an experimental prime-gap chapter). None computes\n   a lag autocorrelation of the paired candidate-gap sequence or compares it to a matched\n   even-offset null. The nearest object is the project's own route 194 (#2356) central-moment census.\n\n## Existing project attempts inspected\n\n- Route **180** (#2323) and route **186** (#2303): kappa=1 `rho_k`, k=1..4; `-rho_1*ln x -> 1/2`\n  ladder 0.6051 … 0.4943 at x = 11..31. Reused here as the instrument's convention check.\n- Route **194** (#2356): paired central moments `Var/mu^2` at 7#..23#; real h=2 inside the matched\n  even-offset null (z = -0.85..-0.25); under-dispersion transitory and generic. This run's matched\n  null and its conclusion are the arrangement-side counterpart.\n- Route **186** (#2303) defines `rho_k`/`R_k` for the ordinary sequence; the paired `rho_k` is not\n  on the register.\n- Route **187** (#2310) extreme-value suppression `S(x#)`; route **188** (#2330) order-blind\n  carrier typing. Both read the gap multiset/order, not the paired lag spectrum.\n\n## The precise uncovered step\n\nWhether the paired (kappa=2) candidate-gap sequence has a lag structure that survives the matched\neven-offset null — i.e. a twin-specific arrangement signal. **Answer recorded here: no**, at\nx = 7..23 (rule-clause CLOSED). Consequently the coupled proposal\n(`next_step.json`) is not the arrangement statistic itself but the null-normalized moment ratio\n`R_2k = M_2k(h)/E_{h'} M_2k(h')` for route 181/143, whose factorisation question is a different,\nstill-open object.\n\n## Access gaps\n\n- No full-text search result was a primary source for the primorial reduced-residue lag\n  autocorrelation; the decisive prior-art statement remains route 180's own note.\n- Paywalled/unreachable: none needed — no candidate primary source was located to inspect.","uncertainty_md":"Weakest unproved assumption: that the matched-wheel normalisation removes the census's CRT-rank-2 component rather than merely rescaling it. The evidence for the normalisation is this run's exact finite result on the paired LAG statistic (rho_1 wheel-generic at x=7..23) plus #2356's analogous Var/mu^2 result, not a computation of M_2k; the bridge from the gap-arrangement statistic to route 143/181's covered moment M_2k(h) is conjectural and is labelled as such. Second: #2246's rank proxy was measured on the completed blocks at small x, so whether it decreases under the quotient at x=17,19 is untested. Third: the finite census is exact but x<=23 cannot measure an asymptotic rho_k; no asymptotic claim is made.","contribution_md":"The paired (kappa=2) candidate-gap sequence has, at fixed twin shift h=2, no lag anti-persistence beyond the odd-prime wheel: under the pre-registered rule the real shift sits inside/above a matched even-offset null at all six rungs x=7..23 (z = +0.06..+1.55), the arrangement-side analogue of route 194's wheel-generic Var/mu^2. Two independent fixed-shift paired statistics are therefore wheel-generic, which motivates changing the ingredient route 181 was blocked on: factorise the wheel-quotient R_2k = M_2k(h)/E_{h'}M_2k(h') instead of the raw centred moment M_2k(h). If the CRT-rank-2 obstruction of #2246/#2247 is exactly the wheel-generic component, R_2k is closer to multiplicative (rank-1-like) and route 193's phase-locked cap applies with the wheel removed. Conjectural link: not proved that the quotient removes rank 2, and the measured evidence is on the arrangement statistic, not M_2k."},"next_step":{"method":"Reuse the served route-143 per-block decomposition (split4314.py / minorant4293.py, as in #2244/#2352/#2363) at q = 11#, 13#, 17#, 19# (dim 2). For k = 1, 2, 3 and the certificate h (h_m, h_m+1 of #2244), compute the centred moment M_2k(h) and the matched-wheel average E_{h'} M_2k(h') over a deterministic set of even h' with gcd(h',q)=2, h'!=2 (same null as #2356/this run), form R_2k, and measure the CRT-rank proxy used by #2246 (ratio s2/s1 of the completed-block covariance spectrum, and the |mu| majorant overshoot over block L1 as in #2247) for R_2k versus M_2k. Bounded, no new sieve.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.1},"failure":"Rank(R_2k) is not below Rank(M_2k) at >=3 rungs (the rank-2 part is not the wheel-generic component, or it cancels only with the raw phase) -- the normalisation buys nothing and route 181's ingredient stays blocked in this form; recorded as a scoped negative.","success":"The rank proxy of R_2k falls below that of M_2k at >=3 of the 4 rungs (approaching rank 1) -- then the wheel-normalised object is a genuine reduction of route 181's blocked ingredient and route 193's phase-locked cap can be applied to it with the wheel part removed.","question":"Does normalising route 181's centred 2k-moment M_2k(h) by its matched even-offset-wheel expectation, R_2k(h,x) = M_2k(h) / E_{h'} M_2k(h') with h' even, gcd(h',q)=2, remove the CRT-rank-2 obstruction that blocked route 181's rank-1 Euler product (#2245/#2246/#2247), i.e. is R_2k closer to multiplicative in p|x than M_2k?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":["python3","numpy"],"required_sources":["route-143-per-block-decomposition","return-2244-completion","return-2352-route193","return-2356-paired-census","return-2246-rank2"]},"depends_on":[2244,2245,2247,2352,2356],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — run-2026-10-06-ad (job #5069)\n\nAll numbers below are exact full-period computations (`/mean_m`), not sampled.\n\n## Artifacts\n\n- `PREREGISTRATION.md` — the decision rule, seeds, rungs and prediction, fixed before the run.\n- `census_ad.py` — instrument (mask builders reproduce #2356's `census_an.py`; lag statistic new).\n- `census_ad.out` / `census_ad.json` — raw run, exit 0 under `sah.py bounded --limit 1500`,\n  `timed_out false`, `group_cleared true`, 160.9 s total.\n- `check_ad.py` / `check_ad.out` — independently written checker, **17/17 PASS, exit 0**.\n\n## Instrument check against published records (kappa=1)\n\n`-rho_1(kappa=1) * ln x` (this run) vs #2323/#2303 (published):\n\n    x=11  0.605086 / 0.6051\n    x=13  0.539330 / 0.5393\n    x=17  0.528411 / 0.5284\n    x=19  0.501815 / 0.5018\n    x=23  0.498938 / 0.4989\n\nBrute-force gcd-loop recomputation of `rho_1` at 7# and 11# matches the numpy instrument to <1e-12\nfor both kappa=1 and kappa=2.\n\n## The pre-registered decision\n\n`z_even-null` (matched even-offset null, `h` even, `gcd(h,q)=2`, `h != 2`) = `+0.064, +1.209,\n+1.290, +1.463, +1.546, +1.404` at x = 7,11,13,17,19,23. Rule clause **\"CLOSED (scoped): z_null > -1\nat >= 5 rungs\"** fires (6/6). Clause **\"PERSISTENT\"** is false (`z_perm < -4` fails at x=7,11,13;\n`z_null < -2` at 0 rungs). The real twin shift lies above the null mean at 5 of 6 rungs.\n\nInterpretation bound to the rule: at these rungs the paired gap-sequence arrangement shows no\ntwin-specific anti-persistence beyond the wheel of odd primes; the observed anti-persistence of the\npaired system (rho_1^(2) = -0.12 … -0.045) is matched or exceeded by generic even offsets.\n\n## Convention / scope\n\n- Cyclic gaps, wrap gap `pos[0]+q-pos[-1]`, integer positions in `[0,q)`, matching #2356.\n- `rho_k = sum_i (g_i-gbar)(g_{i+k}-gbar)/sum_i (g_i-gbar)^2`, indices cyclic.\n- Pair mask: `gcd(n,q)=1` and `gcd(n+2,q)=1`, `q = x#`, x = 7..23.\n- Kappa=1 ladder is a convention check only; the new claim is the kappa=2 lag structure.\n- No asymptotic statement; no `G2(x#)` statement; arrangement-to-`M_2k(h)` bridge conjectural.\n\n## Reproduce\n\n    cd .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-06-ad/work\n    python3 ../../../tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-06-ad --limit 1500 -- python3 census_ad.py\n    python3 ../../../tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-06-ad --limit 300 -- python3 check_ad.py"},"research_route_id":196,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_ebc64cb47f78ae3d721eed79","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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