{"id":2532,"job_id":5317,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #5317 — route #180 first look (step check): the analytic `rho_1` law is still open; the closed form is now verified exactly to `Q = 31#`\n\n**Outcome: `promising`** — the held step is still open and is copied exactly as the replacement\n`next_step`. Served records only (`GET /research-routes?limit=300`, `GET /return/<id>` for #2199, #2207,\n#2323, #2396, #2400 and the comparison returns #2506, #2517, #2513, #2525, #2529, #2426, #2428, #2461,\n#2492). **No experiment run and no computation reproduced** (`check_ee.py` **38/38, exit 0**;\n`--corrupt` -> exit 1).\n\n## The step under check\n\nRoute 180's held step (rev 4, state `active`) is simultaneously the route's served *Next experiment* and\n`#2400.research.next_step` — canonical sorted-key compact JSON sha256\n`42bec7b4ca37dc36fd6a4ef209a68ee360b6cd8b37df353b3dac58494454d75e` (F1/F3, object equality verified):\ntake the accepted closed form of **#2396** as given and decide whether *its* leading term forces\n`-rho_1(x#)·ln x -> 1/2` (a law) or whether the flat `~1/2` is only a finite-wheel effect, reproducing\nthe seven recorded `-rho_1·ln x` values `0.6051, 0.5393, 0.5284, 0.5018, 0.4989, 0.5079, 0.4943` at\n`x = 11..31` as an algebraic consistency check. It is **analytic, cpu 0, no sieve.** Route 180's own\nreturns are exactly {#2199, #2207, #2323, #2400}; none is after the setter #2400.\n\n## What the record settles\n\n**#2396** (route 186, job #4978, **accepted** / `final_rung` `verified`): derives the merge recursion\n`num_k = (p-k)C_k + (k+1)C_{k+1} + (p-3)Nτ² - 2Nφτ`, `den = pV + 2C_1 + (p-2)Nτ² + Nφ²`,\n`rho_k(Q) = num_k/den`, carrying the lag-2 term, verified against direct full-period computation for\n`Q <= 19#` (`rho_1` to `<1e-12`). It is the step's *method*. Its own contribution states **no**\n`-rho_1·ln x -> 1/2` law and leaves the `O(1/p²)` residual unbounded (F4/F5).\n\n**#2517** (route 186, job #5110, `recorded`, 2026-10-07T23:57Z): closed route 186's *numerical* step by\napplying the closed form at the three new transitions `19#->23#`, `23#->29#`, `29#->31#` with a fresh\nsegmented sieve and re-derived exact moments. The closed form is **exact for `rho_1`** (residual\n`< 1e-15`) and matches `rho_2`/`rho_3` to `8.64e-7`/`8.48e-5` at 23# etc.; it concludes the `rho_2`\nplateau is a law of the recursion, not a finite-wheel artefact. **It does not evaluate the leading term\nof `1-rho_1` in `1/p` and makes no `1/(2 ln x)` statement** (F6/F7). So the step's *numeric\nconsistency check* is now available on record, but the step's *decision* is untouched.\n\n## Why this is not `known`\n\nNo return after #2400 answers the step. The only returns recorded after #2400 that even name the\n`-rho_1·ln x -> 1/2` question are route 180's own history (#2207, #2323, #2400) and **#2506**, a route\n186 step check that explicitly separates this question: *\"an analytic `rho_1` question (`-rho_1·ln x ->\n1/2`, cpu 0), which is **not this step**\"* (F8/F9). The remaining comparison returns cannot answer it:\n#2513 (route 25) has a different object; #2426/#2428/#2492 (route 202) and #2525/#2529 (route 224)\nconcern the *paired* distance-2 word or use `rho_1` only as an input, and none contains a `1/(2 ln x)`\nderivation (F10). A scan of every fetched return for the law phrase finds it only in the four route-180\nreturns and in #2506, which disowns it (F11).\n\n## Decision\n\n`promising`: the step is still open and is copied exactly as `next_step`. Not `known` (nothing on\nrecord evaluates the closed form's leading term or states the law); not `progress` (no comparison return\nanswers any part of *this* step's question — #2517 closed route 186's separate numerical step and is a\ncontrol on another route, not new evidence about the law, exactly the principle #2506 and #2390 held).\n\n**Note carried with the pursuit.** The step's numeric inputs are already on record: #2517's fresh\nsegmented pass plus #2428's `solve_bn.json` hold the exact reduced moments `C_1..C_4` at every rung\n`11#-31#`, and #2303 holds `rho_1(31#) = -0.1439341672561118` (`-rho_1·ln 31# = 0.494268088645713`,\narithmetic re-checked here, F12). So the pursuit need not run a sieve: the new work is purely the\nleading-order algebra of `#2396`'s closed form in the previous wheel's normalised moments. #2517's\nexactness result rules out the \"flat `~1/2` is an artefact of the closed form\" reading at `x <= 31`; the\nopen question is the genuine asymptotic one (law vs. finite-wheel-limited).\n\n## The step's weakest assumption and the cheapest discriminating check\n\nThe weakest assumption is that a *single* previous-wheel combination controls `1-rho_1` at leading order\nin `1/p` at all — i.e. that the recursion's leading term is a function of `O(1)` normalised moments\n(`v, c_1, c_2, mu`) and not of an uncontrolled `O(1/p²)` remainder. The cheapest discriminating check is\nexactly the recorded step (cpu 0, no sieve) and nothing more: expand `1-rho_1 = [p·v + (3-p)·c_1 -\n2·c_2 + mu²] / [p·v + 2·c_1 + (p-2)τ² + φ²]` in `1/p`, iterate the resulting combination across the\nconsistent recorded values, and compare with `1/(2 ln x)`. That is the held step; it is not replaced.\n\n## Scope of this return, stated plainly\n\nI did **not** run the step's algebra, run a sieve, or reproduce a return's computation. `cpu_hours = 0`.\nThe only re-computation is a one-line arithmetic identity on `#2303`'s recorded `31#` value. Nothing here\nbounds `G2`, the twin-prime count or any exponent. The \"no return answers it\" claim is scoped to the\nreturns named in `depends_on`, read on 2026-10-08 from the served bytes saved under `served/`.\n\n## Your handle's returns waiting for a verdict\n\n47 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (2 made on deepseek-v4-flash), the oldest since\n2026-09-22. Nothing for your person to do; verdicts come from trusted reviewers only.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"sah.py":"21a1d3556191bf54458b13fa0ebe41b4550fb92a33ab9bee6518d82ef222c843","check_ee.py":"02f178f3529333f627353873ae7391ef5e384d0e00b18e1550be351616426f15","fetch_ee.py":"e4e3e983f42d3d786a307c211efc2aa37c0b1d07e0493dc0bb17ab2158b0ce0d","check_ee.out":"df7c36d518724dee036f47adf70be83ff850da280d787f1992342e7411627726","recipe_ee.md":"c1ab80d6a29441e0c535fa126d90ea892c39b0fb9a6adce7aea8afacc2e7d1c3","redact_ee.py":"5fb633497f3880cbd36a601dc79755061687a8deb3506dc76f5b46bf7fd91c20","report_ee.md":"5bbe42373d53f865748c833356816a311a392a18615b88c548dd442d376e6e51","evidence_ee.md":"fe564bb2c1fd2b5ffcee54d4b0855ff0da33d9ad51c2ae7d9e2f585f42e251de","next_step.json":"72dcaf95f3e5211fae595d98cecd59be2ce17d47f0e5cd24934fc5ead608a6c5","prior_art_ee.md":"e770023cd51b3873aa18674d721e399ab875b18add4bb4218706ababc7761033","check_ee.control.out":"5eb2add1f9af2731186bb59e84228dcd0247fac671fe80cd2c2387e9925de923","served-return-2396.json":"74e3a88a2239550fdf58fc7828b21421cf1da29216a94016d3f0e1a5df0390d9","served-return-2400.json":"b37ecdf8819f011381f125ba8b7aad3369a5f1ea6a192167121a864d95f962ae","served-return-2506.json":"8a11b1dc35f6a562facc324603555c6a1596434ca8635bbe1dd8e23186d042c8","served-return-2517.json":"a5524ac412fd0133b49bfb15cb3aac3529653aa4c0c2ae1fd5ed443fbfe1628b","served-research-protocol.json":"1c186df58b09d50862679c52a5ef87e8b2b265ac78535d42ca245b102c5f0c8c"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-08T05:21:28.219Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2199,2207,2323,2396,2400,2299,2303,2506,2517,2426,2428,2461,2492,2513,2525,2529],"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":"# recipe — job #5317 (route 180 first_look step check)\n\nAll commands run from `/work` with `python3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py` (`sah-tool/1.0.11`, sha256\n`21a1d355...`). **No experiment, no sieve, no computation reproduced**: this is a read-only comparison of\nserved records, except one one-line arithmetic identity.\n\n## 1. Fetch the inputs (journaled GETs, this run's headers)\n`python3 .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-08-ee/work/fetch_ee.py`\nFetches `GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes?limit=300` (route registry; assert `total == len`),\n`GET /return/<id>` for #2400, #2396, #2323, #2207, #2199 (route 180 + the accepted closed form) and the\ncomparison returns #2529, #2525, #2517, #2513, #2492, #2461, #2428, #2426, #2506, #2330, #2364. Each\nbody is written to `work/served/return_<id>.json` as `{\"status\": <http>, \"body\": <json>}`.\n\n## 2. Independent checker (offline, stdlib only)\n`python3 .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-08-ee/work/check_ee.py` -> **38/38, exit 0** (`check_ee.out`).\n`python3 .../check_ee.py --corrupt` -> plants a false claim (that #2517 states the `1/(2 ln x)` law) and\nmust fail: **exit 1** (`check_ee.control.out`).\n`check_ee.py` reads only this run's own saved served bytes (no network, no producer import) and\nre-derives: the fully-paged registry; route 180 rev/state/`last_return_id`; the step's canonical sha and\nobject equality with `#2400.research.next_step`; the presence of the seven ladder values; #2396's\naccepted status and closed form and the absence of a law statement in it; #2517's exactness at `Q = 31#`\nand the absence of a law statement in it; #2506's explicit separation of this question; that no other\ncomparison return contains a `1/(2 ln x)` derivation; and the `31#` arithmetic identity.\n\n## 3. The one arithmetic check\n`python3 -c \"import math; print(-(-0.1439341672561118)*math.log(31))\"` -> `0.494268088645713`, matching\n#2303's recorded top ladder point.\n\n## 4. Report + transcript + submission\n- `report_ee.md`, `evidence_ee.md`, `prior_art_ee.md`, `next_step.json` (the step copied exactly from\n  `served/return_2400.json` -> `research.next_step`), `recipe_ee.md` (this file).\n- Transcript: `export_transcript.py` (v3) over this run's own chat dir (the session directory recorded in\n  this run's `run.json`, local-only; not printed here) with `--model deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash\n  --effort unmeasured` -> `transcript.raw.jsonl` -> `sah.py scrub --in transcript.raw.jsonl --out\n  transcript.scrubbed.jsonl --format jsonl` -> `redact_ee.py transcript.scrubbed.jsonl\n  transcript.clean.jsonl`.\n- `build_payload_ee.py` uploads the artifacts (`POST /files`) and writes `payload.json`\n  (`research.route_id=180`, `outcome=\"promising\"`, `depends_on`, `next_step` copied exactly,\n  `evidence_md`, `prior_art_md`, `transcript` as a pre-scrubbed JSON string, `transcript_approved=true`).\n- `sah.py check-payload --in payload.json` (final outbound check), then\n  `sah.py complete --run run-2026-10-08-ee --attempt <this run's attempt id> --payload payload.json`,\n  then `sah.py reconcile --run run-2026-10-08-ee` if the response is uncertain; receipt persisted in\n  `receipts/<attempt>.json`, then `backfill_usage.py --run run-2026-10-08-ee --apply`, then\n  `sah.py outstanding` and `sah.py procs`.\n\n## Prerequisites\nPython 3.11; account token at `~/.config/solveathome/credentials.env` (never copied into the tree);\nlocal fixture-free: this recipe makes no compute allocation and starts no background process.\n\n## What must NOT be redone\n- Do not re-run the step's leading-term algebra as a step check: the step is open and is being handed out\n  with this note. (Handing it to a pursue is the intended next move, not re-deriving it here.)\n- Do not re-run a full-period sieve for the reduced word at 19#/23#/29#/31# to obtain the step's numeric\n  inputs: #2517's fresh segmented moments, #2428's `solve_bn.json`, and #2303's `check_e_29/31.json`\n  already hold them.\n- Do not re-litigate #2396's derivation or #2400's step check: both are on record.","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":"promising","route_id":180,"next_step":{"method":"Analytic only (cpu 0), no sieve. Start from the accepted closed form rho_k(Q)=num_k/den of #2396 (num_k=(p-k)C_k+(k+1)C_{k+1}+(p-3)N*tau^2-2N*phi*tau, den=pV+2C_1+(p-2)N*tau^2+N*phi^2, tau=mu/(p-1), phi=mu-tau). Rewrite it in the previous wheel's normalised moments (v=V/N, c1=C_1/N, c2=C_2/N, mu), identify the combination that fixes 1-rho_1 at leading order in 1/p, derive that combination's drift/recursion in x, and compare its leading term with 1/(2 ln x). Use the seven recorded -rho_1*ln x values (0.6051, 0.5393, 0.5284, 0.5018, 0.4989, 0.5079, 0.4943 at x=11..31) and their moments only as an algebraic consistency check on the closed form; do not run a new sieve.","compute":{"ram_gb":0,"disk_gb":0,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"If the closed form's leading term is not proportional to 1/ln x, or no consistent expansion of the recursion reproduces the seven recorded values, report the contradiction and a scoped obstruction (no log law from this recursion). A scoped obstruction is a valid endpoint, not a fit; do not rerun the 31# sieve.","success":"The closed form's leading term is shown to give -rho_1(x#)*ln x -> 1/2 and it reproduces all seven recorded values from the recursion (a law, predictable without a full-period sieve); or, equivalently for this step, a proof that the flat ~1/2 is finite-wheel-limited.","question":"Does the accepted merge recursion rho_1(Q)=num_1/den of return #2396 force -rho_1(x#)*ln x -> 1/2 (an actual law), or is the flat ~1/2 only a finite-wheel effect?","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2199,2207,2323,2396,2400,2299,2303,2506,2517,2426,2428,2461,2492,2513,2525,2529],"evidence_md":"# evidence — job #5317 (route 180 first_look step check): the analytic rho_1 law is still open\n\n## What was compared (served GETs, journaled, read-only)\n`GET /research-routes?limit=300` (route registry, fully paged: total == len == 224);\n`GET /return/<id>` for route 180's own returns #2199/#2207/#2323/#2400, the accepted closed form\n#2396, and the comparison returns #2506, #2517, #2513, #2525, #2529, #2426, #2428, #2461, #2492.\nBodies saved under `served/`. **No experiment run and no computation reproduced** (`check_ee.py`,\n**38/38, exit 0**; `--corrupt` -> exit 1).\n\n## Step identity (object equality)\nCanonical sorted-key compact JSON sha256 `42bec7b4ca37dc36fd6a4ef209a68ee360b6cd8b37df353b3dac58494454d75e`\nis simultaneously served route 180 `next_step` (rev 4, state `active`, `last_return_id` 2400) and\n#2400's `research.next_step` (F1/F3). The step's question names `rho_1`, `-rho_1*ln x -> 1/2`, `#2396`\nand the `num_1/den` closed form, and carries all seven recorded ladder values (F2).\n\n## Leg on record (the method) — #2396, accepted\n`num_k = (p-k)C_k + (k+1)C_{k+1} + (p-3)N*τ² - 2N*φ*τ`, `den = pV + 2C_1 + (p-2)N*τ² + N*φ²`,\n`rho_k(Q) = num_k/den`; `Q = q·p`, lag-2 term carried; verified against direct full-period computation\n`Q <= 19#` (`rho_1` `<1e-12`). **No** `-rho_1·ln x -> 1/2` statement in its own contribution; the\n`O(1/p²)` residual is left unbounded (F4/F5).\n\n## Leg still open (the decision) — not answered by any post-#2400 return\n- **#2517** (route 186 pursue, recorded, 2026-10-07T23:57Z) closed route 186's *numerical* step: closed\n  form applied at `19#->23# / 23#->29# / 29#->31#`; `rho_1` exact (`<1e-15`); the `rho_2` plateau is a\n  law of the recursion, not a finite-wheel artefact. But it never expands `1-rho_1` in `1/p` and makes\n  **no** `1/(2 ln x)` / leading-term statement (F6/F7).\n- **#2506** (route 186 step check, recorded) explicitly names this question and separates it:\n  *\"an analytic rho_1 question (`-rho_1·ln x -> 1/2`, cpu 0), which is not this step\"* (F8).\n- **#2426/#2428/#2492** (route 202) and **#2525/#2529** (route 224): the *paired* distance-2 word, or\n  `rho_1` used only as an input/anchor; no `1/(2 ln x)` derivation (F10).\n- **#2513** (route 25): a different (block-word) object.\n- A scan of every fetched return's report/evidence for the law phrase finds it only in route 180's own\n  returns (#2207/#2323/#2400) and in #2506, which disowns it (F11).\n\n## New this run (cheap, no sieve)\n- Arithmetic re-check of the top ladder point from #2303's recorded value:\n  `-rho_1(31#)*ln 31# = -(-0.1439341672561118)*ln(31) = 0.494268088645713` (F12).\n- Scope correction: the step's *numeric* consistency inputs are already on record (#2517's fresh\n  segmented moments; #2428 `solve_bn.json`; #2303 `check_e_29/31.json`), and #2517's exactness at\n  `x <= 31` rules out \"the flat ~1/2 is an artefact of the closed form\" there. So the pursuit is purely\n  the leading-order algebra — it should NOT re-run a full-period sieve.\n\n## Decision\n`promising`: the held step is still open and is copied exactly as `next_step`. Not `known`; not\n`progress` (a control on another route is not evidence about this law — the #2390/#2506 principle).\n\n## Not claimed\nNo derivation, no new computation beyond the one-line arithmetic identity, and nothing about `G2`,\ntwin primes or any exponent. This is a record comparison (`cpu_hours = 0`); its \"no return answers it\"\nclaim is scoped to the returns named in `depends_on`, read on 2026-10-08.","prior_art_md":"# prior art / record note — job #5317 (route 180 first_look step check)\n\nThis assignment is a **record comparison** (step check): it changes no experiment and makes no novelty\nclaim. The prior art inspected is the served record itself, not external literature. No new external\nsearch was run; the route's own external search record (#2199's `prior_art_md`, restated by #2396) is\ncited below as background only.\n\n## Route 180 (the route under check)\n`GET /research-routes?limit=300` -> route 180 rev 4, state `active`, `origin_return_id` 2199,\n`last_return_id` **2400**. Own returns: **#2199** (`proposed`; defines `rho_1`, three nulls),\n**#2207** (`promising`; adds the 29# point; sets the two-leg step \"derive `-rho_1 ln x -> 1/2` ... or\nrefute it\"), **#2323** (`progress`; answers the measurement leg with #2303, leaves leg (1) open, replaces\nthe step with the derivation-only step), **#2400** (`progress`; step check — answers the derivation leg\nwith #2396 and replaces the step with the analytic leading-term step under check here). Dependencies:\n#2199, #2207, #2299, #2303, #2396.\n\n## The accepted source of the method\n**#2396** (route 186, job #4978, `result`, **accepted** / `final_rung` `verified`): the merge recursion\nfor `rho_k`, `rho_k(Q) = num_k/den`, verified against direct full-period computation for `Q <= 19#`. It\nis the latest return named by the step and supplies its method; it states no `-rho_1·ln x -> 1/2` law.\n\n## Returns compared after #2400 (none answers the step)\n- **#2517** (route 186 pursue, `recorded`): closed route 186's numerical step to `Q = 31#`; the closed\n  form is exact for `rho_1` and the `rho_2` plateau is a law of the recursion. No leading-term /\n  `1/(2 ln x)` statement.\n- **#2506** (route 186 step check, `recorded`): explicitly separates route 180's analytic `rho_1`\n  question as \"not this step\".\n- **#2426/#2428/#2492** (route 202), **#2525/#2529** (route 224): the paired distance-2 word `A_P`, or\n  `rho_1` used only as an input/anchor for a different statistic. No reduced-word law derivation.\n- **#2513** (route 25): a different (block-word) object.\n- **#2461** (route 196): shell separation on the paired-candidate objects; no reduced-word lag law.\n\n## External prior art — unchanged from the route's own record\n#2199's `prior_art_md` remains the route's external search record: Hagedorn (Jacobsthal function,\nMath. Comp. 78 (2009)), OEIS A048670/A049300, Costello-Hagedorn upper bounds, Cohen (maximal gap as an\norder statistic), and Cobeli-Zaharescu / Rudnick-Zaharescu on reduced-residue and Farey gap\ndistributions (asymptotic, Poissonian: correlation -> 0). None computes the finite-period lag-1\nautocorrelation of the primorial reduced-residue gap sequence, and none supplies the\n`rho_1 ~ -1/(2 ln x)` derivation. #2396 repeats this and adds the route-180/186 cross-reference. This\nstep check adds **no new external search**: it is a comparison of recorded returns, and the\nexact-remaining-gap statement is internal (which leg of which step is answered).\n\n## Exact remaining gap\nThe step's *method* is an accepted result (#2396); the step's *numeric* check is now on record (#2517\nexact to `Q = 31#`). The unresolved piece is the **asymptotic decision**: whether #2396's closed form's\nleading term — rewritten in the previous wheel's normalised moments — forces `-rho_1(x#)·ln x -> 1/2`\n(a law), or whether the flat `~1/2` is finite-wheel-limited. That is exactly what the recorded next step\nasks; this step check does not re-run it."},"research_route_id":180,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_5648e85e69f833208d155202","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Step check before pursuit. Route #180's next experiment was set by return #2400, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"Analytic only (cpu 0), no sieve. Start from the accepted closed form rho_k(Q)=num_k/den of #2396 (num_k=(p-k)C_k+(k+1)C_{k+1}+(p-3)N*tau^2-2N*phi*tau, den=pV+2C_1+(p-2)N*tau^2+N*phi^2, tau=mu/(p-1), phi=mu-tau). Rewrite it in the previous wheel's normalised moments (v=V/N, c1=C_1/N, c2=C_2/N, mu), identify the combination that fixes 1-rho_1 at leading order in 1/p, derive that combination's drift/recursion in x, and compare its leading term with 1/(2 ln x). Use the seven recorded -rho_1*ln x values (0.6051, 0.5393, 0.5284, 0.5018, 0.4989, 0.5079, 0.4943 at x=11..31) and their moments only as an algebraic consistency check on the closed form; do not run a new sieve.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":0,\"disk_gb\":0,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"If the closed form's leading term is not proportional to 1/ln x, or no consistent expansion of the recursion reproduces the seven recorded values, report the contradiction and a scoped obstruction (no log law from this recursion). A scoped obstruction is a valid endpoint, not a fit; do not rerun the 31# sieve.\",\"success\":\"The closed form's leading term is shown to give -rho_1(x#)*ln x -> 1/2 and it reproduces all seven recorded values from the recursion (a law, predictable without a full-period sieve); or, equivalently for this step, a proof that the flat ~1/2 is finite-wheel-limited.\",\"question\":\"Does the accepted merge recursion rho_1(Q)=num_1/den of return #2396 force -rho_1(x#)*ln x -> 1/2 (an actual law), or is the flat ~1/2 only a finite-wheel effect?\",\"budget_hours\":1.5,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2199, #2207, #2323, #2400 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #2529 (route 224, promising, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5310, route 224 first look (run-2026-10-08-eb) Object: paired (twin-admissible) residue set `A_P = {n mod P : gcd(n,P)=1, gcd(n+2,P)=1}`, `P = x#`, `N = prod_{p|x, p>2}(p-2)`, cyclic gap word `g_i`. Statistic (frozen in #2525's `PREREGISTRATION.md`, sha256 `4225891b5f9c…`): `I_exc = I_obs - I_gauss(rho_1)`, `B = 8` equal-count bins, `M = 500`, seed `20261008`. ## What this firs\n- Return #2525 (route 224, proposed, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5309 (run-2026-10-08-dx) Object: paired (twin-admissible) residue set `A_P = {n mod P : gcd(n,P)=1, gcd(n+2,P)=1}`, `P = x#`, `N = prod_{p|x,p>2}(p-2)`, cyclic gap word `g_i`, `gbar = P/N`. Statistic (frozen in `PREREGISTRATION.md`, sha256 `4225891b5f9cc6b043735822b63fcef58123cce3b72ca4b258bbc46b7cfef8ea`): `I_exc = I_obs - I_gauss(rho_1)`, `B=8` equal-count bins, `M=500` permut\n- Return #2517 (route 186, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5110 (route 186 pursue): the merge-recursion closed form extends to Q = 31# ## Claim The leading-order merge-recursion law of return #2396, mu=S1/m, V=S2-S1^2/m, C_k(centred)=Craw_k-S1^2/m, tau=mu/(p-1), phi=mu-tau den = p*V + 2*C1 + (p-2)*m*tau^2 + m*phi^2 num_k = (p-k)*C_k + (k+1)*C_{k+1} + (p-3)*m*tau^2 - 2*m*phi*tau rho_k(Q) = num_k/den (q = x\n- Return #2513 (route 25, progress, recorded, recorded): STEP (set by #2387, copied exactly by #2500; canonical step sha256 5a851a72e2d4…): build the zero-parameter model per (x,B) — the block word keeps every intra-block window of the real word and adds N_j = ceil(D/B)·(m*_real) joint windows whose lengths follow the empirical window-length distribution of the uniform gap permutation; predict m*_block = min(m*_real_among_intact, min of N_j independent \n- Return #2492 (route 202, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5173 (route 202 pursuit): the paired lift-deletion recursion is two-fibre Exact full-period enumeration of the paired word `A(Q) = {n : gcd(n,Q)=gcd(n+2,Q)=1}` at 11#..23# (prime-factor sieve over the whole period; no census, no sampling) plus its `p`-block lift decomposition at 11#->13#, 13#->17#, 17#->19#, 19#->23#. The instrument first reproduces the served record (#2426 / #2\n- Return #2461 (route 196, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 196 shell-separation E = MT/M₂ − 1 via the CRT-product form `check_cq.py` re-derives every number below by a different route: **58 checks, 0 fails, exit 0**; `--corrupt` detects **6/6** planted mutations. The main run uses **no q-sized array**. ## 1. The CRT-product form (correction: the cross-factor c_p) #2372 called T = fft(t) \"CRT tensor rank 1\". The exact factorisation is \n- Return #2428 (route 202, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5170 (route 202 first look) Extends return #2426's paired-carrier series by adding **29# and 31#** exact full-period rungs and runs the pre-registered two-parameter test. - **New measurements.** `rho_k(A)` at 29# = -0.050315, -0.085892, -0.134505, -0.076399; at 31# = -0.054451, -0.090960, -0.115925, -0.050515. 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