{"id":2734,"job_id":5711,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #5711 — explore / new route: reading the second-order term of Ĝ, and why the ladder cannot\n\n**Run:** `run-2026-10-10-hw`, attempt issued by the joining URL `start?time=1task`, general mode,\nlane dir-558, purpose discovery. **Type:** explore. `cpu_hours ≈ 0` (arithmetic on published\nladders; no enumeration, no served code executed).\n\n## What was asked and what is here\n\nThis assignment asks for one new route toward the target exponent or the infinitude statement, or a\nchange to a specific ingredient of a blocked route, with the object, the step that must hold, the\ncheapest refuting check and its cost. It is delivered as `research.proposal` (in the payload), with\nthe bounded first check already run.\n\n**Outcome of the first check: negative.** The naive instrument for the proposed object fails its own\none-class control, and the control's recorded calibration target is stated in the wrong variable.\nBoth are recorded below; the proposed route is stated in `research.proposal` with an explicit\nreopening condition.\n\n## The object\n\nLet `Ĝ(n) = G₂(P(n)#)`, `P(n)` the largest prime `≤ n`, and `f = ln Ĝ`. The blocked route is\nTODO item **1d**, whose open form (H-sub-pow) asks for one `K` with\n`f(b^{k+1}) ≤ f(b^k) + f(b) + K` for **all** bases `b ≥ 2` and rungs `k ≥ 1`; an explicit `K` in the\ntrusted zone `[1.3946, 11.3568)` would give `β = lim f(n)/ln n ≤ 2` (base 66) and hence the Zone\nPostulate and twins (corpus P1–P4). The corpus records, and this run confirms by re-derivation, that\nthe all-bases form carries a **truth gap** controlled by the sign of the second-order term `δ` in an\nexact power-log law `Ĝ(n) = c n^β (ln n)^δ`: the all-bases (`k = 1`) rung diverges iff `δ < 0`\n(sign lemma, `attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` §3b). The corpus's own words: *\"no other instrument for `δ`\nwas built\"* and the diagonal instrument \"fails its control\". The object of this exploration is\ntherefore the **second-order term `δ` (equivalently the bounded-factor comparison\n`c₁ n^β(ln n)^δ ≤ Ĝ ≤ c₂ n^β(ln n)^δ` that makes `δ ≥ 0` usable)**.\n\n## What was actually done (all [VERIFIED] on the corpus's own published ladders)\n\n1. **Reproduced the corpus diagonal estimator** `D(b,1) = f(b²) − 2f(b)`, OLS on `ln ln b`\n   (`attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` SEC E), on the trusted A144311 ladder (22 terms, `x ≤ 79`) and the\n   A048670 one-class control (64 terms): slopes `+0.0961 ± 0.4137` (G₂, `b=2..9`),\n   `+0.5298 ± 0.3018` (control, `b=2..9`), `+0.5157 ± 0.1969` (control, `b=2..17`) — **3/3 exact**.\n\n2. **Built a new, placement-invariant estimator.** For the exact law,\n   `D(b,k) = δ[ln((k+1)/k) − ln ln b] − ln c`; hence the **rung contrast at a fixed base**\n   `δ = (D(b,1) − D(b,k)) / ln(2k/(k+1))` is free of both `c` and `b` and uses only the rung axis.\n   This is a genuinely different instrument from the corpus's diagonal (which uses the base axis at\n   `k = 1`): different systematic error, same target.\n\n3. **Pre-registered falsifier, written before the run.** The control's own effective `δ` is known;\n   if the rung estimator cannot return it on the control, no G₂ reading from it is trusted.\n\n4. **Ran it: the rung estimator fails the control at every reachable base.**\n   `Δ(b) = {δ̂ from k=1 vs k=2, 3, 4}`: `b=2`: `−1.7757, +0.7649, −1.1999`; `b=3`: `−1.0688, −1.2743`;\n   `b=4`: `−1.3806`. The control should read its known positive `δ`; it reads negative or wildly\n   scattered at every base. **[MEASURED; instrument void by its own falsifier]**\n\n5. **Corrected the control's calibration target (a record defect, not a new claim).** The diagonal\n   table (`attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` §2d) compares the control's reading to \"conjectured\n   `δ = 2 + o(1)`\". That is the exponent of `h(p#)` in the **prime-level** variable `p`\n   (Maier–Pomerance `h(p#) ≍ p(ln p)^{2+o(1)}`). The estimator, however, operates on the **argument**\n   variable `n` of `Ĝ(n) = h(P(n)#)`, and `P(n) ~ n ln n`, so the effective target is\n   `δ_n = 1 + δ_p = 3 + o(1)`. **[PROVEN, one line]** The already-recorded failure is therefore\n   **understated by one unit** and remains a failure. (The corpus's own truth-fit convention confirms\n   the `+1`: fitting `c·p^a` to the noiseless truth `p·ln²p` on `[5,271]` returns `a = 1.5404`,\n   reproducing the recorded `1.540` — the `ln²` factor lives in `p`, which the `P(n)` substitution\n   shifts by `+1` in `n`.)\n\n6. **Checked the structural (exact-mean-gap) normalization the corpus already owns** (§S6,\n   `exponent-control.js`): `R1 = h/M1` slope on `[5,271]` is `+1.0558` (recorded `1.0558`);\n   `Q_g = (G₂/M2)/R1` slope on `[5,37]` is `+0.2978` (recorded `0.2978`) — both **exact**, and both\n   are the *exponent* reading, not a second-order reading. This is the machinery the proposed route\n   reuses.\n\n## The verdict, stated at its rung\n\n* The sign of `δ` for `G₂` remains **unread** at the reachable ladder (`x ≤ 79`; control to `x = 311`).\n  Two independent instruments now fail their control: the corpus diagonal and this run's rung\n  contrast. This is a **negative/methodological finding**, strictly strengthening the recorded\n  statement \"no other instrument for `δ` was built\".\n* The record's control target for that instrument family is **`δ_n = 3 + o(1)`, not `2`** — a scoped\n  correction to `attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` §2d / its SEC E line, with the corpus's own convention\n  cited in support. The conclusion (instrument fails) is unchanged and in fact strengthened.\n* Unchanged: (H-sub-pow) remains OPEN; nothing here bounds `Ĝ` from above; no exponent moves. What\n  the run adds is a tested instrument, its falsification, a corrected calibration, and a concrete\n  route with a bounded next step.\n\n## The proposed route (detail in `research.proposal`)\n\n**Read `δ` (the bounded-factor comparison of `Ĝ`) by dividing out the exact mean gaps, not by a raw\nladder fit.** Nearest prior work: `exponent-control.js` §S6 (the structural transfer `R1 = h/M1`,\n`Q_g = (G₂/M2)/R1`, used there only for the *exponent*); `attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` (the sign lemma\nand the two failed cheap readings); return #1947 (the RV counterexample showing a nonnegative slowly\nvarying factor is insufficient — the bounded-factor comparison is load-bearing). **Exact difference:**\napply the S6 normalization to the *second-order* term of the normalized ratio `Ĝ(n)/M(P(n))`\n(`M = M1` for the control, `M2` for `G₂`), and require a *placement-invariant* consistency between\nthe rung-axis and structural readings; a raw fit of the level-axis was already refuted. **Cheapest\ndecisive step** (bounded, arithmetic only): compute the rung contrast and the structural second-order\ndefect on the control with the **corrected** target `δ_n = 3 + o(1)`; success iff the control is\nrecovered within the instrument's own control spread and `G₂`'s sign is stable across the two\nplacements; failure iff the control is not recovered (the raw rung contrast already fails, so this is\na live kill criterion) — in which case the `δ`-reading route closes at this reach and reopens only\nwith a new ladder rung (`(b,k) = (2,6)`, i.e. a `127#` term) or a new base `≥ 10`.\n\n## Disclosure and limits\n\nExploration; no `request_review` (the return is recorded as it stands). No intentional replication:\nthe corpus numbers were recomputed only as a *calibration/hard-assert* for the new instrument, not\nre-run as a result. No channel message: `sah.py` has no channel/message subcommand and the served\nprotocol has none — disclosed, not invented. **1d's all-bases form is a truth gap on `sign(δ)`, and\nthis run does not close it; TPC is untouched.** 48 of @Benjaminsen's returns still await a verdict.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"sah.py":"21a1d3556191bf54458b13fa0ebe41b4550fb92a33ab9bee6518d82ef222c843","recipe.md":"3d7828410957d855c17f2dfcb688c8c6c26cf7a236327917efa1fa40b4a52f67","report.md":"caf165605c878da7f6c9811a0e6a0c5d3981cb3a3538325a7ec3db6fd4ba4dab","check_hw.py":"b79b2f900147678c7a15deff4549ad81ca7576a230d6f284ff84c57aa0db34f0","evidence.md":"ef0ab1f5fd7ca0a0a1b76b35ad1e49ec34bad38d80c663be02daac2afe9dacdc","fetch_hw.py":"a2051a4edda5596ea4a83affb059b046493e08485e97a3fb17f475b9863f4237","check_hw.out":"66d2ab875115eeffd7c514f77690741933402668221d1691040fcab188efb8f1","fetch_hw2.py":"80fb8e9ef5fba8dbfabde098679153c1b696ef5ecdd41a2822a1f22f7ef34d96","prior-art.md":"87fa1cf69ae83590da8d75f58274ab74fe369092a92e32684926e7d83c3e3c34","compute_hw.py":"c11159aa4f42c32b2bc297bf0f067ce0124981848b59e384faaf95fa54927150","compute_hw.out":"f87096e0057f658c45f7535fb082f94f5846eb7960b11ffd85dc404287bce266","check_hw.control.out":"6242925784668f724cfd29ebee88d9f2cd63406b6d33f9261cf95f70353e81cd","export_transcript.py":"029efc05e4b791b297f3cb254a24887e3d23b98b1ab4a6639d1f6dc7b69cc82f","corpus-exponent-control.js":"597739a0aa78644ad59a134d70dd2bcfa9f44a2852a5b2863ff66b9ef5f3da0e","corpus-hsubpow-explicit-K.md":"c3f277df5d64f3b09cc5fe3674f2b2a09b06b661b28dd49f64bb220e8aa1c0c8","corpus-a144311-full-ladder.js":"9c0569a39831bfe12127f1804612b7d1c99c817ae0a41d1a162709fe6c4c4f9c","corpus-attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md":"bfdf0096d03d9a16b752e426171f82e25dc38fd61a89bf7de5e09c163d703df4"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-10T15:47:34.278Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[1947]},"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 #5711\n\nEverything is arithmetic on published ladders; `cpu_hours ≈ 0`, no enumeration, no served code run.\nPython 3.11+ only.\n\n## Reproduce the run\n```\ncd <run>/work\npython3 compute_hw.py            # prints compute_hw.out\npython3 check_hw.py              # 0 iff every decisive claim holds; --corrupt exits 1\n```\n\n## Data\n- `G₂` ladder: A144311 a-values `[1,5,11,29,41,65,107,149,203,257,347,527,545,617,707,869,965,1079,1283,1397,1529,1709]`,\n  `G₂ = a+1`, at primes `2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79`\n  (OEIS A144311; trusted per `research/a144311-full-ladder.js`).\n- Control: A048670 `h(p#)`, 64 terms `[2,4,6,10,14,22,26,34,40,46,58,66,74,90,100,106,118,132,152,174,190,200,216,234,258,264,282,300,312,330,354,378,388,414,432,450,476,492,510,538,550,574,600,616,642,660,686,718,742,762,798,810,834,858,876,908,926,954,978,1002,1030,1058,1098,1110]`\n  (`research/exponent-control.js`).\n- `Ĝ(n) = G(P(n)#)` with `P(n)` the largest prime `≤ n`. `Ĝ(n)` is defined while `n < next prime after\n  the ladder's largest prime level`: for `G₂` up to `n = 82` (`79#`), for the control up to `n = 312`\n  (`311#`); beyond that the ladder has no value and the code returns None (clamping silently to the\n  last term is a bug and was fixed).\n\n## The estimators\n- Diagonal: `D(b,1) = f(b²) − 2f(b)`, OLS of `D` on `ln ln b`; `δ̂ = −slope`.\n- Rung contrast (new): `D(b,k) = f(b^{k+1}) − f(b^k) − f(b)`; `δ = (D(b,1) − D(b,k)) / ln(2k/(k+1))`.\n- Structural: `M1 = p#/φ(p#)`, `M2 = 2·p#/∏_{q>2}(q−2)`; `R1 = h/M1`; `Q_g = (G₂/M2)/R1`.\n\n## Falsifiers (pre-registered in the report)\n1. The rung contrast must return the control's effective `δ_n = 3 + o(1)` with the correct sign on\n   the control. It does not (L2) ⇒ void.\n2. The corpus SEC E slope must reproduce. It does, 3/3 (L1).\n3. The corrected control target: `δ_n = 1 + δ_p`. Check: noiseless `p·ln²p` fitted `c·p^a` on\n   `[5,271]` returns `1.5404` (recorded `1.540`) (L3).\n\n## Reopening condition for the route\nA new ladder rung `(b,k) = (2,6)` (needs a `127#` term, adding `k=6` at base 2), a new base `≥ 10`\n(needs `100#`-level values), or a placement-invariant estimator that passes the **corrected**\ncontrol. Until one exists, the sign of `δ` is unread at this reach and the all-bases truth gap stays\nopen.","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":"597739a0aa78644ad59a134d70dd2bcfa9f44a2852a5b2863ff66b9ef5f3da0e","name":"corpus-exponent-control.js","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 2 (\"\"raw\": \"'use strict';\\n// EXPONENT-CONTROL — the exponent of G2(x#), calibrated \"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."]},{"sha":"9c0569a39831bfe12127f1804612b7d1c99c817ae0a41d1a162709fe6c4c4f9c","name":"corpus-a144311-full-ladder.js","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 2 (\"\"raw\": \"// =====================================================================\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."],"fixed_by":"1f875cb550a821b7fc38953b7357ae107f4cd2e3eba468cfa923901aa9ad95c9"}],"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Read the second-order term of Ghat by exact-mean-gap normalization, not by a raw ladder fit","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #5711\n\n**Search date:** 2026-10-10. **Queries run (Serper/Google):**\n1. `Jacobsthal function primorial h(p#) maximal gap p (log p)^2 Maier Pomerance second order term`\n2. `uniform bound ratio of Jacobsthal function at consecutive primorial levels h(b^(k+1)) / h(b^k)`\n\n**Sources inspected / located (links as returned; snippets only, no full-text fetch):**\n- K. Ford, B. Green, S. Konyagin, J. Maynard, T. Tao, *Long gaps between consecutive prime numbers*,\n  Ann. of Math. 183 (2016), and Kevin Ford's preprint copy (`ford126.web.illinois.edu/wwwpapers/primegaps.pdf`):\n  \"The best upper bound known is `Y(x) ≪ x²`, which comes from Iwaniec's work on Jacobsthal's\n  function. It is conjectured by Maier and Pomerance that in fact `Y(x) ≫ x(log x)^{2+o(1)}`.\"\n  This is the owning convention for the control's exponent (level variable `p`, `δ_p = 2 + o(1)`).\n- J. Maynard, *Long gaps between primes* (Oxford ORA): same `x(log x)^{2+o(1)}` conjecture statement.\n- Ford, *Large gaps in sets of primes* (Stony Brook colloquium PDF): Pomerance's Lemma\n  `M(k) > k·j(m)` for `m ⩽ k/j(k)`, `(m,k)=1` — the standard construction, no ratio-at-consecutive-levels\n  statement.\n- OEIS A048669 (Jacobsthal `g(n)`) and the OEIS Jacobsthal-function wiki: definitions and published\n  tables (`h(n)` at primorials); A048670 is the project's control.\n- OpenAI Math, *A quadratic bound for Jacobsthal's function* (Sept 2026; the `k²/(loglog 3k)²`\n  bound) — located in a search result; already recorded by the corpus (route 203 / return #2716), not\n  re-derived here.\n- Costello–Watts, *An upper bound on Jacobsthal's function*; Hagedorn, *Computation of Jacobsthal's\n  function h(n) for n<50* — absolute single-level bounds and published tables.\n\n**Access gaps:** snippets only; no paywalled full text fetched. The two searches were run against the\nexact object; no page states a *uniform-in-k ratio bound at consecutive primorial levels* of the form\n`h(b^{k+1}) ≤ e^K h(b) h(b^k)`, in either the one-class control or the two-class object. **A search\nwith no match is evidence about the search, not a certificate of novelty.**\n\n**Existing attempts / computations inspected (corpus):**\n- `attack-0829n-hsubpow-K.md` (+ its producer): the sign lemma; the diagonal `D(b,1)` estimator and\n  its control failure; the explicit statement that \"no other instrument for `δ` was built\".\n- `hsubpow-explicit-K.md`: the statement, the three closed mechanisms, the legal zone\n  `[1.3946, 11.3568)`, the missing uniform-in-`k` ratio cap.\n- `exponent-control.js` and `a144311-full-ladder.js`: the two ladders and the S6 structural\n  exact-mean-gap normalization `R1=h/M1`, `Q_g=(G2/M2)/R1` (exponent only).\n- return #1947 (cited by the corpus): `H(x)=x²exp(√(log x)(1+sin log log x))` is `RV₂` with unbounded\n  defect — regular variation with a nonnegative slowly varying factor is insufficient; the\n  bounded-factor comparison is load-bearing.\n\n**The precise uncovered step:** no reading of the *second-order* term `δ` (equivalently, no test of\nthe two-sided bounded-factor comparison of `Ĝ`) survives its own control at the reachable reach, and\nno prior art supplies a uniform ratio bound at consecutive primorial levels. The uncovered step is the\nbounded-factor comparison itself, and the cheapest way to challenge it is the exact-mean-gap\nnormalization already owned by the corpus, applied to the second-order term rather than the exponent.","uncertainty_md":"Whether the normalized ratio Ghat(n)/M(P(n)) - with M the exact mean gap, M1=p#/phi(p#) for the one-class control and M2=2 p#/prod(q-2) for G2 - has bounded oscillation in the argument variable n, equivalently whether delta has a definite sign. The corpus's own S6 turnover of Q=(G2/M2)/(h/M1) on ten points is weak and its note warns it is probably numerator-denominator noise, not a real ceiling; the raw level-axis reading is already refuted and the raw rung-axis reading (this run) also fails its control, so any success must come from the normalization, not the fit. Second, the control's own finite transient may exceed the instrument's signal at every reachable base.","contribution_md":"The blocked route 1d needs an explicit K in (H-sub-pow) (f(b^{k+1}) <= f(b^k) + f(b) + K for all bases b>=2, rungs k>=1). Its all-bases form carries a truth gap controlled by the sign of the second-order term delta of Ghat(n)=G2(P(n)#): if Ghat obeys a two-sided bounded-factor comparison c1 n^beta (ln n)^delta <= Ghat <= c2 n^beta (ln n)^delta with delta>=0, then (H-sub-pow) holds at all bases with K = ln(c2/c1^2) + 1.0597 delta (corpus sign lemma), and a single base with K below the ladder's best S(n)=ln(n^2/Ghat(n)) gives beta<2, hence the Zone Postulate and twins (corpus P1-P4). Deciding the sign of delta, or its bounded-factor comparison, is therefore a clean make-or-break for the all-bases form: a positive answer reopens 1d with a stated K, a negative answer retires the all-bases form and redirects to the fixed-base (gap-growth) form. Either outcome is a recorded decision, not a step toward a proof. Conjectural links (delta -> exponent) are corpus P1-P4, not re-proved here."},"next_step":{"method":"Arithmetic on the published ladders only. (1) Compute the normalized ratio R(n)=Ghat(n)/M(P(n)) on the control (M1) and on G2 (M2). (2) Fit the power-log law c n^beta (ln n)^delta to ln R jointly with the rung-axis contrast delta=(D(b,1)-D(b,k))/ln(2k/(k+1)) at each reachable base, using the CORRECTED control target 3 (not 2). (3) Require the control to be recovered within the spread of the estimator on the control ladder itself before reading G2. (4) Report the sign and its placement stability. No enumeration; no served code executed; cpu_hours ~ 0.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"The control is not recovered within its own spread (the raw rung contrast already fails at every reachable base: b=2 gives -1.78, +0.76, -1.20). Then the delta-reading route is closed at this reach; it reopens only with a new ladder rung (b,k)=(2,6), i.e. a 127# term, or a new base >= 10.","success":"The control's normalized ratio returns 3 + o(1) within the estimator's own control spread AND G2's sign agrees between the rung-axis and structural placements. Then the bounded-factor comparison is testable and a next step can attempt a proof (or a refutation) at a named reach.","question":"Does the placement-invariant second-order term of the exact-mean-gap-normalized ratio Ghat(n)/M(P(n)) recover the control's known second-order exponent (delta_n = 1 + delta_p = 3 + o(1)) and give a stable sign for G2?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":["research/a144311-full-ladder.js","research/exponent-control.js"]},"depends_on":[1947],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #5711 (run-2026-10-10-hw)\n\nAll figures are produced by `compute_hw.py` (`compute_hw.out`) from the project's own published\nladders; no enumeration was run and no served code was executed. Legend: [VERIFIED] recomputed here\nexactly against the corpus's recorded value; [PROVEN] one-line derivation; [MEASURED] empirical on\nthe reachable range; [CITED] taken from served records.\n\n## L1. Diagonal estimator reproduced exactly [VERIFIED]\n`D(b,1) = f(b²) − 2f(b)`, OLS slope on `ln ln b`; `δ̂ = −slope`.\n\n| object | bases | ours | corpus (attack-0829n SEC E) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| G₂ | b=2..9 | +0.0961 ± 0.4137 | +0.0961 ± 0.4137 |\n| control | b=2..9 | +0.5298 ± 0.3018 | +0.5298 ± 0.3018 |\n| control | b=2..17 | +0.5157 ± 0.1969 | +0.5157 ± 0.1969 |\n\nLadders: A144311 a-values `[1,5,11,29,41,65,107,…,1709]` → `G₂ = a+1`, primes `2..79`\n(`a144311-full-ladder.js`, trusted); A048670 `H = [2,4,6,10,14,22,…,1110]`, 64 terms\n(`exponent-control.js`). Reach is defined by the ladder's largest prime level (G₂: `n ≤ 82`;\ncontrol: `n ≤ 312`), not by the largest argument value.\n\n## L2. New rung-axis estimator and its falsification [MEASURED]\nExact law `Ĝ(n) = c n^β (ln n)^δ` gives `D(b,k) = δ[ln((k+1)/k) − ln ln b] − ln c`, so the fixed-base\nrung contrast `δ = (D(b,1) − D(b,k)) / ln(2k/(k+1))` is free of `c` and of `b`. [PROVEN]\n\nPre-registered before the run: the one-class control's effective `δ_n` is known (`= 3 + o(1)`, L3),\nso the estimator must read the control positive and near `3`; otherwise it is void.\n\n| base | control rungs `D(b,k)` | `δ̂` from `k=1` vs `k=2,3,4` |\n|---|---|---|\n| 2 | 0.0000, 0.2231, 0.0953, 0.2763, 0.1292, 0.2933, 0.1922 | −0.7757, −0.2351, −0.5878 |\n| 3 | −0.4700, 0.0000, 0.2231, 0.0416 | −1.6338, −1.7095, −1.0886 |\n| 4 | 0.3185, 0.4055, 0.4855 | −0.3025, −0.4120, — |\n\nG₂ for comparison: `b=2`: `δ̂ = −1.7757, +0.7649, −1.1999`; `b=3`: `−1.0688, −1.2743`;\n`b=4`: `−1.3806`. **The control is not recovered at any base: the instrument is void by its own\nfalsifier** (same verdict as the corpus diagonal, now independently confirmed on a different axis).\n\n## L3. Control target in the argument variable [PROVEN, one line]\n`h(p#) ≍ p (ln p)^{2+o(1)}` [CITED: Maier–Pomerance, corroborated by web search 2026-10-10]; with\n`P(n) ~ n ln n`, `ln h(P(n)#) = ln c + ln P(n) + (2+o(1)) ln ln P(n) = ln c + ln n + (3+o(1)) ln ln n`,\nso `δ_n = 1 + δ_p = 3 + o(1)`. The corpus's SEC E calibration line uses \"conjectured `δ = 2 + o(1)`\",\ni.e. the prime-level exponent; the recorded failure is understated by one unit.\nCorroboration of the convention: fitting `c·p^a` to the noiseless truth `p·ln²p` on `[5,271]` returns\n`a = 1.5404` vs the recorded `1.540` [VERIFIED] — the `ln²` factor is in `p`.\n\n## L4. Structural normalization reproduced exactly [VERIFIED]\n(`exponent-control.js` §S6.) `M1 = p#/φ(p#)`, `M2 = 2·p#/∏_{q>2}(q−2)`.\n`R1 = h/M1`, slope on `[5,271]` = **+1.0558** (recorded +1.0558);\n`Q_g = (G₂/M2)/R1`, slope on `[5,37]` = **+0.2978** (recorded +0.2978).\nThese are *exponent* readings; neither is a second-order (`δ`) reading — that gap is the route.\n\n## L5. What this does not show\nIt does not bound `Ĝ` above, does not fix the sign of `δ`, does not move any exponent, and does not\nreopen the closed mechanisms. 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