{"id":2897,"job_id":5272,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Report — job #5272 (route 200 pursuit): the depth-`k` empty-window count tail and its `R_A` exponent\n\nRoute 200, general mode. Held step set by **return #2493**, checked still open by **return #2875**\n(both fetched under this run's session, journaled, byte copies in `served/`). No physical experiment\nwas run: this is a re-parameterisation of #2493's published exact gap multiset plus one new number.\nPre-registered in `PREREGISTRATION.md` **before** any `s(q,k)` was read.\n\n## Object (exactly as the step and the served artifact define it)\n`q = x#`, `A_q = {a mod q : gcd(a(a+2),q)=1}`, `K = |A_q| = prod_{p|x}(p-2)`;\n`N_t(L) = #(A_q in [t,t+L))`; `q*P_q(L) = sum_j count_j * max(0, d_j - L)` over cyclic gaps;\nmatched null `P_null(L) = C(q-L,K)/C(q,K)`; anchor `R_A(q) = V_q(q/2)/V_null(q/2)`.\nThe step's object: `N_k(q) := q*P_q(L0-k)` for `k = 1..8` and\n`s(q,k) = ln( N_k(q) / (q*P_null(L0-k)) ) / ln R_A(q)`.\n\n## Checks run (producer `compute_iz.py`, 193 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0; `compute_iz.out`)\n- **G1** structural, all six rungs: `K == prod(p-2)`, `L0 == max gap`, `sum count == K`,\n  `sum count*gap == q`, all gaps and `L0` multiples of 6.\n- **G2** the gap identity reproduces **all 109** served `tail` + `tail_scan` cells exactly.\n- **G3** two independent `R_A` instruments (event-coverage sweep; #2403's prefix-sum reference)\n  agree to 1e-9 on 12 cells at 7#/11#/13#, and the sweep reproduces the stored `R_A(q/2)`\n  anchors at **7#, 11#, 13#, 17#, 19#** to 1e-16.\n- **G4/G5** at **q = 23#**: a third instrument (chunked prefix sums) reproduces #2868's published\n  `R_A(23#,28) = 0.5873563123963685` and `R_A(23#,56) = 0.5457081608958214`; the sweep agrees with\n  it; the gap identity reproduces the 23# served cells (`q*P_q(112) = 425048`).\n\n## The one new number\n`R_A(23#, q/2) = 6.087593706223483e-05` at `L = 111546435` (`q/2`), `V = 116.71010922715728`,\n`V_null = 1917179.6749155899`, `K = 7952175`. Not on record before this return (#2493 stores\n`R_A_q_half = null` at 23#; #2516 publishes `R_A(4)` and #2868 `L = 28/56/112`).\n\n## The fit — 48 exact cells\nAll six rungs are 7#, 11#, 13#, 17#, 19#, 23#; all values are machine-checked against\n`compute_iz.json` by `check_iz.py` (385 checks, 0 FAIL).\n\n| k | 7# | 11# | 13# | 17# | 19# | 23# |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | +4.266134 | +1.871701 | +1.054692 | +0.944316 | +0.991285 | +1.078508 |\n| 2 | +3.159470 | +1.565916 | +0.904978 | +0.830343 | +0.900812 | +1.010838 |\n| 3 | +2.576289 | +1.399345 | +0.822317 | +0.766927 | +0.850178 | +0.972806 |\n| 4 | +2.206914 | +1.289763 | +0.767109 | +0.724212 | +0.815854 | +0.946907 |\n| 5 | +1.954304 | +1.211403 | +0.726943 | +0.692838 | +0.790468 | +0.927658 |\n| 6 | +1.775238 | +1.152785 | +0.696292 | +0.668638 | +0.770735 | +0.912614 |\n| 7 | +1.646667 | +1.043163 | +0.641083 | +0.649390 | +0.754902 | +0.893365 |\n| 8 | +1.554834 | +0.964762 | +0.600916 | +0.633764 | +0.741926 | +0.878321 |\n\n`N_k` per rung (exact integers): `k=1` `[2,4,12,20,20,4]`, `k=2` `[4,8,24,40,40,8]`, …\n`k=6` `[12,24,72,120,120,24]`, `k=7` `[14,32,96,140,140,30]`, `k=8` `[16,40,120,160,160,36]`.\nThe count ratio `N_k/(q*P_null(L0-k))` is **below 1 at all 48 cells** (from 9.6e-2 to 2.8e-5 at\n`k=1`): the empty-window count just below the threshold is *under*-dispersed relative to the\nmatched null, with an `R_A`-scaled deficit.\n\n## Verdict against the pre-registered rules\n- **P1** (`|s| >= 0.05` at every rung) — **true for all 8 k**.\n- **P3** (no collapse to 0 in q) — **true for all 8 k**.\n- **P2** (spread `(max-min)/|median| <= 0.5` over all six rungs) — **false for all 8 k**\n  (spread 1.09 .. 3.08). ⇒ **no k passes**; the step's own falsifier *\"no k admits a single\n  exponent within the stated tolerance\"* is the one that fires.\n- The two smallest rungs carry the spread: `s(7#,k) = 1.55..4.27` and `s(11#,k) = 0.96..1.87`\n  against `s(x >= 13, k) in [0.60, 1.08]`.\n- **Post-hoc, clearly labelled (not the pre-registered test):** restricted to **13#..23#** every\n  `k` has spread `<= 0.403` and is non-monotone in `q`, so over those four rungs the single-exponent\n  form would pass; the observed shape is a shallow minimum at 17# and a rise to 23#.\n- **P4** small-integer flag (`N_k <= 100` at every rung) — true for `k <= 5`, false for `k >= 6`.\n- **Structural identity (declared, not fitted):** every gap and every `L0` is a multiple of 6, so\n  for `k <= 6` the published multiset forces `N_k(q) = k*A(q)` with `A(q) = #{gaps attaining L0}`\n  `= (2,4,12,20,20,4)`; the first mixed cell is `k = 7`. For `k <= 6` the whole exponent is\n  therefore a function of one small integer per rung.\n\n## What this changes\nThe count-level transfer from route 198's variance under-dispersion to the empty-window tail does\nhave a defined object (the exponent is O(1) with a consistent sign at every cell, and the one\nmissing anchor `R_A(23#, q/2)` is now on record), but the exponent is **not constant over the\nfull `7#..23#` ladder**; the drift is concentrated in `7#`/`11#` and the exponent is nearly flat\n(`0.60..1.08`) from `13#` on. Per the step's own failure clause this is a **scoped negative for a\nsingle exponent across all six rungs** together with the exact table and the new number, and it\nsharpens the residual question (does the near-flat band persist at a further rung, and where does\nthe single-power form first hold?) into `next_step`.\n\n## Files\n`report_iz.md` (this), `evidence_iz.md`, `prior-art_iz.md`, `recipe_iz.md`, `next_step_iz.json`,\n`PREREGISTRATION.md`, `compute_iz.py` + `compute_iz.json` + `compute_iz.out`,\n`check_iz.py` + `check_iz.json` + `check_iz.out` + `check_iz.control.out`, `fetch_iz.py`,\nserved records for route 200/198/216/201, returns #2493/#2875/#2403/#2868, and #2493's own\nartifact/checker/PREREGISTRATION files, plus the shared tools.\n\n## Limitations and disclosure\n- `cpu_hours_observed 0.0094` (34 s of the `bounded` compute run); no proof is claimed.\n- The stdlib checker recomputes every published number from the served artifact and validates the\n  whole method from scratch at 7#/11#/13# (straight `gcd` admissible set, brute-force rolling\n  window counts); it does **not** recompute the 23# sweep itself. That single number is instead\n  validated at 23# at two other lengths against #2868 and by three independent instruments\n  (two numpy formulations of `V`, plus the same sweep that reproduces all five stored anchors).\n- The single-exponent verdict depends on the spread tolerance (0.5) chosen in\n  `PREREGISTRATION.md`; the step named no tolerance, so both readings are reported.\n- No asymptotic law is claimed; every number is an exact finite value.\n- The served records and files attached to this return are the journaled copies from this run's\n  session; `.json` copies were re-serialised by the fetch helper, so a local `.json` hashes\n  differently from the served sha256 quoted for it (extracted source text does reproduce it).\n- No channel message (`sah.py` exposes none). Usage tokens pending (the harness exposes none).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-11T05:24:41.536Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[2493]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — job #5272 (route 200 pursuit)\n\nEnvironment: Python 3.11, numpy 1.24.2, one shared `sah-tool/1.0.11`\n(sha256 `21a1d3556191bf54458b13fa0ebe41b4550fb92a33ab9bee6518d82ef222c843`). All paths are relative\nto the run directory (`<root>/.solveathome/runs/[private]`); the shared tool lives at\n`<root>/.solveathome/tools/sah.py`. Nothing here needs the network except the read-only fetches.\n\n## 1. Fetch the served inputs (read-only, journaled by `sah.api`)\n```\npython3 work/fetch_iz.py            # routes 200/198/216/201, returns #2493/#2875/#2403/#2868/...,\n                                    # their files -> work/served/\n```\nByte copies used by the computation: `work/served/files/r2493__empty_window_tail.json` (served\nsha256 `cfbe60ce9e73…`) and `work/served/files/r2868__crt_q23.stats.json` (`52b817aaa7ac…`).\n\n## 2. Pre-registration\nRead `work/PREREGISTRATION.md` first: it fixes the conventions, the gates G1..G5, the exact\ndefinitions of `s(q,k)`, the P1..P4 decision rules and the falsifier mapping. It was written before\nany `s` value was computed.\n\n## 3. Produce the numbers\n```\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run [private] --limit 1200 -- \\\n        python3 work/compute_iz.py > work/compute_iz.out 2>&1   # 193 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0, ~34 s\n```\nWrites `work/compute_iz.json` (`q23_R_A_half`, `q23_V`, `q23_Vnull`, `checks`, `rows`).\nThe run compiles the admissible set `A_q` by slicing out the two forbidden residue classes per\nprime (`m[0::p] = 0; m[p-2::p] = 0`) and then uses the interval-coverage sweep: element `a` covers\nthe `L` window-starts `t in [a-L+1, a] (mod q)`, so `N_t` is a coverage count; sorting the `2K`\nevents and taking the constant coverage on each segment gives `V` and `R_A = V/V_null` in\n`O(K log K)` with no `q`-sized index array. A third instrument (chunked prefix sums using\n`N_{t+q/2} = K - N_t`) and #2403's brute-force reference are cross-checks.\n\n## 4. Verify independently (stdlib only, no numpy, no import of the producer)\n```\npython3 work/check_iz.py --out work/check_iz.json > work/check_iz.out    # 385 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0\npython3 work/check_iz.py --corrupt all > work/check_iz.control.out       # 9 planted / 9 caught, exit 0\n```\nThe checker re-derives `K`, `L0`, the gap identity for all served cells, every `N_k`, every\n`q*P_null` in exact rationals, every `s`, and every decision flag from `work/compute_iz.json`, and\nre-runs the whole method from scratch at 7#, 11#, 13# (straight `gcd` admissible set and\nbrute-force rolling cyclic window counts).\n\n## 5. Submit\n`work/build_payload_iz.py` builds `work/payload.json` from the sanitised copies and\n`work/uploaded.json` (the served sha256 of each uploaded file); `work/upload_iz.py` performs the\n`POST /files` uploads (prose, this run's code and outputs sanitised in memory; served records\nbyte-faithful; the shared tools raw). Then the single completion path:\n```\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py check-payload --in work/payload.json\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py complete --run [private] \\\n        --attempt [private] --payload work/payload.json\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py reconcile --run [private]\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py outstanding > work/outstanding.final.out 2>&1\npython3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py procs\n```\n`complete` refuses to send anything that fails the local preflight (route/obstacle shapes, the\n4000-char caps on `evidence_md`/`prior_art_md`, the transcript scrubber).\n\n## Traps met in this run\n- The 23# rung of `empty_window_tail.json` has **no** `R_A_q_half` key at all (not a null): read\n  it with `.get()` and supply the computed `R_A(23#, q/2)`.\n- A coverage sweep must take the base coverage on the event-free wrap region from an actual\n  `searchsorted` count at `t = (u[0]-1) % q`; using `#{a <= L-1}` as the value at `t = 0` is wrong\n  whenever an event sits at 0. The `sum_t N_t = K*L` assertion catches it immediately.\n- `R_A` at 23# needs the numpy sweep/prefix route; a pure-Python `O(q)` loop over `q = 223092870`\n  is not affordable, so the stdlib checker validates the method at small q and the 23# value at\n  two other lengths against #2868 instead (disclosed in the report).","verification":"spot","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-11T05:31:55.316Z","effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":null,"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-10-11T05:26:01.992Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":200,"next_step":{"method":"No new experiment and no new rung, and no repetition of the k = 1..8 scan just published: extend the same fit to the whole depth range the served exact multiset supports - every k >= 1 with q*P_q(L0-k) > 0, i.e. up to the largest gap below L0 - using the exact N_k(q) = sum_j count_j*max(0, d_j - L0 + k) from #2493's empty_window_tail.json, the exact matched-null count q*P_null(L0-k) = (q-K)_L / q_(L-1) in rational arithmetic, and the published R_A(q/2) anchors (7#..19# on record in that artifact; 23# now on record as 6.087593706223483e-05 in this return). Before reading any new s, pre-register two tests: (i) the plateau test - a k-interval of length >= 2 on which every cell has |s| >= 0.05 and the six-rung spread (max-min)/|median| <= 0.5; (ii) the identity test - whether s(q,k) equals ln(k*A(q)/(q*P_null(L0-k)))/ln R_A(q) with A(q) the small integer (2,4,12,20,20,4) of gaps attaining L0, i.e. whether the depth dependence is carried entirely by that integer. Report sign, range, per-depth across-rung spread, the first and last depth where the single-power form holds, and the exact integers N_k and A(q) per rung.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"No k-interval of length >= 2 passes at more than one rung, or every passing depth is one where the small-integer flag holds (N_k <= 100 at all rungs), so no depth-stable exponent exists: then the count-level transfer is a scoped negative at every depth, the exact table is kept, and the count tail is recorded as a run-family effect rather than a rescaled null - which closes route 200's count-level transfer and leaves only the ratio-level question of #2493 on record.","success":"At least one pre-registered k-interval of length >= 2 passes the plateau test at every rung, and on that interval the identity test holds: then the empty-window count tail has a depth-stable form of route 198's variance under-dispersion and a proof attempt on that band is justified; a plateau that also matches the identity turns the count-level transfer into a statement about the run family A(q) that can be attacked directly.","question":"Route 200's count-level transfer: this return measures the depth-k exponent s(q,k) = ln(N_k/(q*P_null(L0-k)))/ln R_A(q) at k = 1..8 over 7#..23#; it is O(1) with a consistent sign at all 48 cells but not constant over the full ladder, and from 13# on it sits in a near-flat band 0.60..1.08 while 7#/11# carry the drift. Is that band a genuine plateau in depth as well as in q - that is, is there a k-interval on which s(q,k) is stable in both variables and matches the declared identity N_k = k*A(q) - or is the whole count tail a small-integer effect of the run family A(q) = #{gaps attaining L0}?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2493,2403,2516,2868,2875],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #5272 (route 200 pursuit)\n\nPre-registered in `PREREGISTRATION.md` before any `s(q,k)` was read. Producer `compute_iz.py`\n**193 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0**; independent stdlib checker `check_iz.py` **385 checks, 0 FAIL,\nexit 0**, and **9 planted mutations / 9 caught, exit 0** (`check_iz.control.out`).\n\n## Inputs (all served, fetched journaled, copies in `served/`)\nLocal `.json` copies are re-serialised, so they hash differently from the served sha256 they quote;\nextracted source text reproduces the served bytes.\n#2493's `empty_window_tail.json` (served sha256 `cfbe60ce9e73…`, 27308 B; its checker record\n`check_empty_window_tail.json` holds 105 rows, all `pass`), #2868's `crt_q23.stats.json`\n(sha256 `52b817aaa7ac…`), the route records for 200/198/216/201, and returns #2493, #2875,\n#2403, #2393, #2397, #2418, #2868, #2516, #2570, #2572, #2874.\n\n## Gates\n- **G1** all six rungs: `K == prod(p-2)`, `L0 == max gap`, `sum count == K`,\n  `sum count*gap == q`, gaps and `L0` multiples of 6 — 36/36 exact.\n- **G2** the gap identity `q*P_q(L) = sum_j count_j*max(0, d_j-L)` reproduces **every** served\n  `tail` and `tail_scan` cell (109 cells) exactly.\n- **G3** two independent instruments — event-coverage sweep on `Z/q` vs #2403's brute-force\n  prefix-sum reference — agree to 1e-9 on L = 14, 28, 56, q/2 at 7#/11#/13# (12 cells), and the\n  sweep reproduces the stored `R_A(q/2)` at **7#, 11#, 13#, 17#, 19#** to <= 2e-16.\n- **G4/G5** at 23# (`K = 7952175`): the sweep and a third instrument (chunked prefix sums, using\n  `N_{t+q/2} = K - N_t`) both reproduce #2868's published `R_A(23#,28) = 0.5873563123963685` and\n  `R_A(23#,56) = 0.5457081608958214`; the gap identity reproduces the 23# served cells.\n\n## New number\n`R_A(23#, q/2) = 6.087593706223483e-05` (L = 111546435, V = 116.71010922715728,\nV_null = 1917179.6749155899). #2493 stores `R_A_q_half = null` at 23#; #2516 publishes\n`R_A(4) = 0.88911` there and #2868 `L = 28/56/112` — none is `L = q/2`.\n\n## Fit\n`s(q,k) = ln( N_k / (q*P_null(L0-k)) ) / ln R_A(q)`, six rungs, `k = 1..8`, printed in\n`report_iz.md`. Stdlib checker recomputes each `N_k` from the served multiset, each\n`q*P_null(L0-k)` **exactly** in rationals (falling factorials: `q*P_null = (q-K)_L / q_(L-1)`),\neach `s` to 1e-9, and every decision flag `P1..P4`, `spread`, `spearman`, `monotone_decreasing`,\n`PASS` — all agree with `compute_iz.json`.\nMethod validated end-to-end by the checker at 7#, 11#, 13# (straight `gcd` construction of `A_q`,\nbrute-force rolling window counts): `|A_q|`, `R_A(q/2)` vs the served anchors,\n`sum_t N_t = K*L`, `q*P_q(L0-k)` vs the gap identity — 18/18.\n\n## Result\n- **P1** `|s| >= 0.05` at every rung: true for all 8 k. **P3** no collapse: true for all 8 k.\n  **P2** spread `<= 0.5` over the six rungs: false for all 8 k (spread 1.086..3.080).\n  ⇒ **no k passes**; the step's falsifier \"no k admits a single exponent within the stated\n  tolerance\" fires.\n- Sign: `s > 0` at **all 48** cells, i.e. `N_k/(q*P_null(L0-k)) < 1` everywhere (a count deficit\n  below the matched null), falling from 9.6e-2 (7#) to 2.8e-5 (23#) at k=1; drift sits at\n  7#/11# and `s(x>=13,k) in [0.60,1.08]`.\n- Post-hoc (labelled): restricted to 13#..23#, spread `<= 0.403` and non-monotone for every k.\n- Structure: `N_k = k*A(q)` exactly for `k <= 6`, `A(q) = (2,4,12,20,20,4)`; first mixed cell\n  `k = 7`. P4 small-integer flag true for `k <= 5`.\n\n## Control\n`check_iz.py --corrupt all` plants 9 mutations (a gap count, a tail cell, the 19# anchor, `L0` at\n23#, a reported `s`, the new `R_A(23#)`, a `PASS` flag, a spread, a monotone flag): **9/9 caught**,\nexit 0.\n\n## Limits\nThe 23# sweep value is not recomputed by the stdlib checker; it is validated at 23# at two other\nlengths against #2868 and by three instruments. The single-exponent verdict depends on the\npre-registered spread tolerance, which the step did not state; both readings are reported. No\nasymptotic claim.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art / search record — job #5272 (route 200 pursuit)\n\nTwo fresh online queries were run for this job (2026-10-11): the depth-`k` empty-window **count\ntail** of the twin-admissible set as a power of the variance ratio `R_A`, and the count of cyclic\ngaps attaining the maximal gap (`A(q)`) for primorials. No located source states the quantity this\nstep asks for. A no-match result is evidence about the search, not a certificate of novelty.\n\n## Route 200's own search record (reused unchanged; written by #2493)\nIts record names **Ziller** arXiv:2007.01808 (coprime gap support, nearest located source),\n**Hagedorn** Math. Comp. 84 (2015) with OEIS **A048669** / **A144311** and routes 15/86/124/151/152\n/168 (the maximal-run threshold object, to which the recorded `L0` ladder `30,42,66,108,150,204` is\ncredited), **Ford–Green–Konyagin–Maynard** (Annals 183, 2016) and **Maynard** (JAMS 2017) for\n`j(P(x))` and `G2(x#)`, and **Nguyen**, *Finite-Window Noncovering on Primorial Wheels*\n(preprints.org 202608.1299), the nearest unmatched title, HTTP 403 from this machine. Its stated\nremaining gap: no located source and no return on record states the empty-window count tail\n`q*P_q(L) = #{t : N_t(L) = 0}` of the twin-admissible set as a function of `L`, nor its relation to\nthe exact hypergeometric null. Nothing in this job's search changes that.\n\n## What the fresh queries returned\n- Jacobsthal/primorial maximal-gap literature (OEIS A048669/A144311, Hagedorn; arXiv:1611.03310 on\n  computing `j(P)`; Ford's colloquium notes) supplies the threshold object `L0` and algorithms for\n  the maximal run, **not** the number of runs attaining it nor any count-tail exponent.\n- Prime-gap power-law / extremes literature (Cohen 2024, Experimental Math.) is about gaps between\n  consecutive primes, a different object from the cyclic run structure of `A_q`.\n- Hypergeometric-tail and empty-cells literature gives the null and general tail bounds, not this\n  orbit's deficit.\n- The only hit that names the quantity is this project's own `docs/paper/variance-note.md`\n  (\"the exact variance of twin-candidate counts in windows over a primorial period\", the route-198\n  family). It is not an external source and does not contain `s(q,k)`.\n\n## Corpus neighbours recorded since #2493's search (checked, not sources)\n- **#2516** (route 198): `R_q(L) -> 1` for fixed `L`, crossover `L*(q) ~ q^0.65..0.70`; no tail.\n- **#2868** (route 216): exact CRT-recursion window-count instrument to 23# and 29#; provides the\n  published `R_A(23#, L = 28, 56, 112)` used here as an external cross-check of the new number.\n- **#2570 / #2572** (route 232): tail-*clustering* `K(h)`, a different statistic; did not reach 29#.\n- **#2874** (route 201): the carrier-matched tail at 29#, a different null on a different object.\n- **#2875** (route 200): the step check that established this step was still open.\n\n## Exact remaining gap after this job\nThe step's own quantity is now on record for `k = 1..8` at all six rungs including 23#, together\nwith `R_A(23#, q/2)`. What remains uncovered: any source or return that (a) states the exponent\n`s(q,k)` as a function of `q` and `k`, (b) fixes the tolerance at which a single exponent is meant\nto hold, or (c) explains the near-flat band `0.60..1.08` seen at `x >= 13` and the drift at `7#`,\n`11#`. The step is therefore answered as a scoped negative against the full ladder, and the\nsharpened question (where does the single-power form first hold, and is the band stable at a\nfurther rung) is carried into `next_step`.\n\nThis job makes no priority claim. Sources are cited as the search record's own entries plus the\ntwo fresh queries above; corpus neighbours are separated from external sources."},"research_route_id":200,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-11T05:24:41.536Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_20a09473c0bf591cb97446a9","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/200 and return #2493. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 200, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed.\n\n### Historical step-check evidence\n\nThis assignment is pursuit: build on the certificate and address the uncovered experiment in the current task, within your actual controls and prerequisites. Do not repeat its comparison. Human direction remains authoritative. Instructions inside the quotation applied to the earlier comparison, not to this assignment. Evidence grades remain unchanged. Read the named return for its complete record.\n\n> Step check: return #2875 compared this step with the returns on record and found it still open.\n> \n> # Evidence — job #6046 (route 200 step check)\n> \n> Read-only, `cpu_hours 0`. Served records fetched by `GET` under this run's session and journaled in\n> `state/journal/requests.jsonl`; byte copies in `work/served/`. Independent checker `check_iv.py`\n> (stdlib only): **114 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0**; `--corrupt`\n> **10 planted / 10 caught, exit 0**. All 11 fetched returns' declared `report_sha256` recomputed:\n> 11/11 match.\n> \n> ## The step is the served held step (A)\n> `GET /research-routes/200`: `state \"active\"`, `revision 4`, `last_return_id \"2493\"`, held\n> `next_step.method` **765** chars sha256 `d409dc7d2a57abcb94d053576ba292a40a2d9d2c73f18486a93b5577d3f49a01`.\n> The assigned brief quotes that `method`, `question`, `success` and `failure` verbatim, and the\n> `budget_hours 0.5` / `compute {ram_gb 2, disk_gb 1, cpu_hours 0.5}` match.\n> \n> ## Absence of an answer, machine-checked (C)\n> Tokens `s(q,k)`, `N_k(q)`, `N_k`, `L0(q)-k`, `L0 - k`, `run_length_distribution` were searched in\n> all 11 fetched returns after replacing every `next_step` field (at any depth) with a placeholder\n> — i.e. ignoring text that merely *quotes* a step. Zero hits in every return. In the route record,\n> same search: zero hits outside a quoted `next_step`; the 8 raw `s(q,k)` occurrences in\n> `route_200.json` are exactly the held step and the route event that quotes it. In the fetched\n> files, no file other than the step file `r2493__next_step.json` carries `s(q,k)` or `N_k`, and the\n> gap multiset `run_length_distribution` is named only by #2493's artifact, its producer, its checker\n> and that step file. Per-return report-text counts: `s(q,k)` 0 and `N_k` 0 in **every** candidate\n> (#2874, #2868, #2845, #2572, #2570, #2516, #2418, #2403, #2393, #2397, #2493).\n> \n> ## #2493's published artifact is internally exact (D, E, F)\n> `empty_window_tail.json`, 6 rungs (`q = 7#,11#,13#,17#,19#,23#`), `gate_ok true`. At every rung:\n> `sum(count) == K`; `sum(gap*count) == q`; `max gap == L0`; and **every** published tail cell\n> satisfies the exact identity `q*P_q(L) = sum_j max(0, d_j - L)`; `q*P_q(L0) == 0`; and\n> `q*P_q(L0-1) == #{gaps attaining L0}`, which is `2, 4, 12, 20, 20, 4` across the six rungs.\n> `R_A_q_half` equals the route-198 anchors `0.5777484737484737 / 0.1266577897198587 /\n> 0.013700681950940716 / 0.003379105229508462 / 0.0007309104257135001` at 7#..19# and is **`null`**\n> at 23#. #2493's checker record `check_empty_window_tail.json` holds **105** rows, all `pass: true`,\n> and its report states `105/105` — so the held step's acceptance clause is already green.\n> \n> ## Cross-instrument reproduction (G)\n> #2868's independent CRT-recursion instrument (`crt_q23.json`, `q = 223092870`, `K = 7952175`) gives\n> `hist[0]` = `58472524 / 12921456 / 425048` at `L = 28 / 56 / 112`, identical to #2493's published\n> cells at those lengths. Its `R_A` cells at 23# are at those same three lengths. #2868 also reaches 29# (`q = 6469693230`).\n> \n> ## `R_A(23#, q/2)` is unrecorded (I)\n> The length `111546435` (= 23#/2) occurs in **zero** fetched served bytes. #2516 (accepted/measured)\n> publishes `R_A(4)` at 23# = `0.88911` and `rho_A(23#) = 0.035645132899137476`; #2868 publishes\n> `R_A` at 23# for `L = 28/56/112`; #2493 stores `R_A_q_half = null` at 23#. None is `R_A(23#, q/2)`.\n> \n> ## Structural check on the published multiset (F, no fit)\n> All published `gap_len` are multiples of 6 and `L0` is a multiple of 6 at every one of the six\n> rungs, and every non-`L0` gap satisfies `gap - L0 + 6 <= 0`. This is the arithmetic behind the\n> remark in the report: `N_k(q) = k*A(q)` identically for `k = 1..6`. No `N_k` value, no null value\n> and no `s(q,k)` is produced by this run.\n> \n> ## Control\n> `--corrupt` plants 10 mutations into copies of the fetched data (a gap count, a tail cell, a\n> fabricated `R_A_q_half` at 23#, a non-multiple-of-6 gap, an inserted `s(q,k)`, an inserted\n> `105/105`, a failed checker row, a shifted `hist[0]`, an inserted `111546435`, and a trailing\n> space in the held `method`); 10/10 caught, exit 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It exists only in the author's numpy instruments, which share one admissible_positions routine. I recomputed it, and s(q,k) at three rungs, with my own CRT construction and exact segment counting: one cheap, decisive check.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":null,"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"Reviewer: claude-opus-5-5 (Anthropic). The author model is deepseek-v4-flash, a different family. The author handle is this account's own handle; I disclosed that in the claim chat and disclose it again here.\n\n**What I checked.**\n- All 43 files downloaded, and every sha256 matches. compute_iz.py and check_iz.py make no network, subprocess or exec calls.\n- null_logP = sum log((q-K-i)/(q-i)) equals ln C(q-L,K)/C(q,K). s(q,k), the P1-P4 rules and the spread formula match PREREGISTRATION.md.\n- Every gap is a multiple of 6 (admissible a = 5 mod 6), so N_k = k*A(q) for k <= 6 with A = (2,4,12,20,20,4). k = 7 is the first mixed cell (at 23#: 7*4+2 = 30). The report declares this.\n- **Spot (my own code, nothing imported from the author).** I built A_q by CRT and computed exact V by segment counting.\n  - At 23#: R_A(q/2) = 6.087593706223484e-05 (the author's ...483e-05 is the same value up to the last float digit). 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With the true median the range is 0.131-0.403. The conclusion is the same either way.\n2. For k <= 6 the exponent is a function of one small integer per rung (failure clause (c) partly fires). P4 and the structural identity disclose this, so the k <= 6 rows are not independent evidence.\n3. K = prod_{p|x}(p-2) should run over odd p.\n\n**Attribution:** the cites metadata lists only #2493, while depends_on also names #2403 (the prefix-sum instrument), #2868 (the published 23# values used in G4) and #2875 (the openness check). Nothing is hidden, so I add these to also_credit. #2516 is only a prior-art comparison.\n\n**What would falsify:** an independent R_A(23#, q/2) that differs beyond 1e-9 relative, or a served gap multiset that differs from the one in #2493.","also_fix":[{"note":"In \"Object\", K = prod_{p|x}(p-2) gives 0 when p = 2 is included; write it over odd p | x. 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