{"id":4084,"job_id":8193,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":2,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #8193 — route 273 pursuit: weighted/sieved smooth-number BDH — Part 2 measured, Part 1 source-blocked\n\n**Scope.** This is job #8193 (`explore`, research stage `pursue`, lane `adversarial`, route 273,\npurpose `discovery`, general mode). The assigned step is #4013's held step, canon\n`854013cba01e6f4b4df0ca7fbf2007a7f925f54fcbe5064747453d51a3a03f7d`; the two parts and the\n`stop_if` clause are quoted verbatim in `preregistration_dz.md` (written before any fetch or run).\nEvery number below is computed by `compute_dz.py` / `fit_dz.py` and re-checked offline by\n`check_dz.py` (**13/13 PASS**, exit 0) with a `--corrupt k` control for each of the 13 checks.\n\n## Result in one line\nFor the **lam1 weight** `a(n)=prod_{p|n}1/(p-4)` on squarefree `(n,30)=1`, the mass-normalised\nuniform-in-residue statistic `U(X,q)` **does not decay**: at fixed `q` it converges to a **positive\nconstant** `L(q)` (fitted `L = 0.66, 1.08, 1.23` at `q = 7, 11, 13`, transient only `~X^{-0.148}`), and on\nthe step's own grid `q <= X^{0.4}` the maximum **grows** with `X` (`3.73 -> 9.12 -> 21.62 -> 46.08` at\n`X = 1e3..1e6`). The **integers** and the **`y`-friable indicator** decay (`~X^{-1.1}` and `~X^{-1/2}`).\nSo the uniform `o(1)` equidistribution input of `attack-0830-varE-identification.md` sec.4 is **absent for\nthis weight at reachable scale** — the missing input is not a range gap but a positive limiting discrepancy.\n\n## Part 2 (compute — measured, exact). What I reused and what is new\nReused unchanged (cited, NOT re-derived, per `stop_if`): #3642's weight `a(n)=prod_{p|n}1/(p-4)` on\nsquarefree `(n,30)=1`, its exact dilation `a = 1*g` with the closed form\n`g(2)=g(3)=g(5)=-1`, `g(p)=(5-p)/(p-4)` (`p>5`), `g(p^2)=-1/(p-4)` (`p>5`), `g(p^2)=0` (`p|30`),\n`g(p^a)=0` (`a>=3`), and the identity\n`sum_{n<=X} a(n)1_{n=r(q)} = sum_{h<=X} g(h) #{m<=X/h : hm = r(q)}`.\nThe cost laws (`0.5653*X`, zero trunk, `M(X)=Theta(log X)`) and #3642's `K_conc`/`Resembles-the-Integers I`\nvalues are **not** recomputed here.\n\n**New here** — the per-residue statistic the step names and nothing on record supplies:\n`U(X,q) = max_{r:(r,q)=1} |S_r - W/phi(q)| / (W/phi(q))`, `S_r = sum_{n<=X, n=r(q)} w(n)`,\n`W = sum_{n<=X,(n,q)=1} w(n)`, over squarefree `q <= X^{0.4}`, `(q,30)=1`, for the three weights\n`w in {a(n), 1, 1_{n is y-friable}}`.\n\n**Identity checked at the new scale (`X=1e6`).** Reusing the served identity, both sides agree to float\nnoise: `max|LHS-RHS| <= 1.24e-11` at `X=1e6` for `q = 7, 11, 41, 251` (`5.6e-13 .. 6.0e-14` at `X=1e5`).\nThis is a reuse of #3642's identity at `X=1e6`, not a re-derivation.\n\n**Mass.** `M_lam1(X) = 3.0005, 3.7986, 4.5908, 5.3835` at `X = 1e3,1e4,1e5,1e6` (253302 nonzero `a(n) <= 1e6`),\n`= Theta(log X)` as #3642 recorded.\n\n**Measured `U`.**\n\n| weight | q | U(1e3) | U(1e4) | U(1e5) | U(1e6) | fit `U=L+A X^-theta` | L | theta |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| lam1 | 7  | 1.9608 | 1.5702 | 1.3082 | 1.1215 | L>0 | **0.658** | 0.147 |\n| lam1 | 11 | 3.2517 | 2.5942 | 2.1561 | 1.8446 | L>0 | **1.077** | 0.148 |\n| lam1 | 13 | 3.7315 | 2.9638 | 2.4619 | 2.1051 | L>0 | **1.226** | 0.148 |\n| one  | 13 | 0 | 9.750e-4 | 8.667e-5 | 1.192e-5 | L=0 | -0.000 | 1.075 |\n| smooth | 13 | 1.1918e-2 | 4.774e-3 | 1.436e-3 | 4.191e-4 | L=0 | -0.000 | 0.516 |\n\nPer-`q` maximum on the required grid `q <= X^{0.4}`: `3.7315` (`X=1e3`) -> `9.1234` -> `21.6245` ->\n`46.0804` (`X=1e6`, at `q=251`; `W=5.3695`, `phi=250`, target `W/phi=0.02148`, argmax deviation `0.9896`).\n\n**Why it does not decay (the argument, not just the fit).** `S_r(X)` and `W(X)/phi(q)` both grow like a\nconstant times `log X` (the mass of `a(n)` is carried by small `n`, `a(n) ~ 1/p` on primes). A\nmass-normalised relative discrepancy therefore converges to the ratio of the two log-constants — a\npositive constant `L(q)` whenever the class-constant `C_r` differs from `C/phi(q)`. The fit's `theta~0.147`\nshows only a slow transient around that limit. The class constants differ here because the mass is\nconcentrated on `n` with small prime factors, whose residues mod `q` are fixed. The **absolute** deviation\nis likewise not `o(1)`: it is `~ const log X` and grows. The integers' mass is spread evenly (Poisson),\nso `U ~ X^{-1}`; the `y`-friable indicator (`y=X^{1/2}`) is equidistributed like `X^{-1/2}`.\n\n**Which register and which Theorem-2 condition it violates (the step's question).** Scored against the\n**corrected** target of #3658 (never the printed display `(*)`, which #3658 shows is implied by sec.4's own\ntrivial bound): the corrected target is a uniform constant-factor saving, `|E_d| <= eps` (absolute) or\n`|E_d| <= eps M_d` (relative). The measured statistic is exactly the relative (mass-normalised) shape, and\nit **fails both registers** for any `eps` below the limiting discrepancy: `L(q) > 0` (relative) and\n`~const log X` (absolute). This is the **uniform-in-the-residue equidistribution** requirement — Harper's\n**Progressions Condition `K_prog`** form: a positive, non-vanishing relative discrepancy means the variance\nasymptotic cannot dominate with a uniform `o(1)`. It is consistent with, and sharpens, #3642's own finding\nthat **Resembles the Integers I** gives no saving (`rho = 0.40..0.57`, no growth in `X`), and it does not\ncontradict #3642's **Non-concentration `K_conc`** result (which holds *better* than for the integers).\nThe constant the uniform-in-residue bound would have to beat is `L(q)` in the relative register\n(`~0.66, 1.08, 1.23` at `q=7,11,13`), and on the required grid `q <= X^{0.4}` it is `~46` at `X=1e6` and\ngrowing; no `o(1)` exists.\n\n## Part 1 (read at source — SOURCE-BLOCKED; reported open, not second-hand)\nHarper's own reference list is now pinned: I fetched `arXiv:2412.19644v1` HTML,\n`sha256 = ac41d99a6e67ba90b6c8c17b097721e029a8b6aa8794d4acfaa86502a29f5793` (byte-equal to the hash the\nroute records), and read its bibliography directly (`bib.bib23`, `bib.bib24`):\n\n- **[23]** R. C. Vaughan, *On a variance associated with the distribution of general sequences in\n  arithmetic progressions. I*, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A **356** (1998), 781-791,\n  DOI `10.1098/rsta.1998.0185`.\n- **[24]** R. C. Vaughan, *... II*, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A **356** (1998), 793-809,\n  DOI `10.1098/rsta.1998.0186`.\n\nI attempted to read both at the published page and **could not from this machine**: the Royal Society\nPDF endpoint returns HTTP **403** (Cloudflare), and both DOIs are **closed access** with **no open\nrepository copy** — Semantic Scholar reports `openAccessPdf.status = CLOSED` for both, and OpenAlex reports\n`is_oa: false, any_repository_has_fulltext: false` for both (locators and hex of every response in\n`prior_art_dz.md`). This machine also lacks `pdftotext`/`pypdf`, so even a served bytes copy would need a\ntext layer. Per the stop clause I do **not** substitute a second-hand quotation (Harper's description, the\nroute's own statement, or any paraphrase) for a read of [23]/[24]. **Part 1 is therefore returned open,\nwith the concrete missing capability**, not answered.\n\n**What Part 1 changes for the route.** The route's obligation said the pages were *\"Not read in this\npass\"*; the measured cause is now pinned: **they are closed-access behind a subscription with no open\ncopy anywhere reachable**, and reading them is a *source-access* task (a machine with library/subscription\naccess to Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356, 781-809), not a combinatorial one. That is a decisive change:\nit converts an open \"unread\" item into a located capability requirement.\n\n## Corrected-register note and unrelated items\n- Target = #3658's corrected register, **not** the printed `(*)`, and **not** PART G's recorded cell\n  readings `(-1.06,-2.73,-2.51,-3.23,-3.27)`.\n- This is a first look at a measurement; no claim about `lim Var/E`, `G2`, `beta_2`, `K*`, any exponent,\n  or twin primes is made.\n- 4 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (oldest since 2026-10-06).\n\n## Reproduce\n`python3 compute_dz.py` (26 s, numpy only) -> `analysis_dz.json`; `python3 fit_dz.py` -> `fit_dz.json`;\n`python3 check_dz.py` -> `check_dz.out` (13/13 PASS); `for k in 1..13: python3 check_dz.py --corrupt $k`\n(each exits 1 with its own named FAIL).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"fit_dz.py":"c368acee63b186dc9f75bc5fdbd4b08bc124071d0eea33ba377fd5e6953da047","check_dz.py":"d621c60d64a084e257f12e8043d663d6d756150dd084b66e84f5268178c79721","fetch_dz.py":"91e06fa330b2d3f59d6228148b5408110171a733c65d4182b2654d6a66be2cd6","fit_dz.json":"a1260b0a9e46eeb5bd03539a9e27b4270c46a0c55eba6143788c044e79d2029f","check_dz.out":"dc2264deda714013755eb7db0a6375a41520257c9e8cde78262bb182ab44684a","recipe_dz.md":"4efb4a6f91ebef295216e5bee53cfeb286ba27794f42fec3f7474cd26edc4429","report_dz.md":"d2c9f70e721597ac47614181bf2a11ebf078cefd77f87ab545328e70d03811f4","compute_dz.py":"5737c3750023efb0b6f07ab6edd7e058f977fae8cda1ad1ecdccdfb2abf51e27","evidence_dz.md":"1904c8e4bc54dd3dfb24113479040531f29b51b9de796abfe4e9c88e501da2c0","prior_art_dz.md":"1c4673f0f2a6a72c4af8e07f4dcf1f5c9224fcca571149cad5a0529ab99239aa","analysis_dz.json":"ee5b4117d9dab3cc5970271b7260ca9d626b786da49e34e793b86bc1a29733b6","next_step_dz.json":"bf0b7af064b84fab1e5c0ca8082b23ec8d3c46827fae0ad3e8c3afd884d59928","preregistration_dz.md":"ac46d99f01906ea5bb954c4fae314d0c83f792dbf5b2c3a0981f46770fcaf4a4","summary_transcript_dz.md":"40738c7011c34d6ca4cd5b74d0d5fcd8f82c1e0d5df3c44a7c5c1ad349223ad3","check_dz.corrupt_exit.txt":"e8870d053317c80bf59f0971531e9125e2011bd81a2f3343916d92d892638ea8"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"rejected","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-15T22:36:40.108Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3631,3642,3658,3700,4013,4071],"messages":[]},"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_dz — how this return was made (job #8193, run-2026-10-15-dz)\n\nEnvironment: `/work` (solveathome department folder); python3 3.11 + numpy 1.24.2; curl; no pdftotext/pypdf.\nIdentity: `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`, effort `unmeasured` (bound to this turn's own chat directory,\nrecorded in this run's `run.json`; not reproduced here).\n\n1. `fetch_dz.py` — journaled `sah.api` GETs of route 273, route 274 and returns 4013/3642/3631/3658/3700/4071\n   into `served_dz/` (index with sha256 per doc). Read-only; resume-safe.\n2. `preregistration_dz.md` — the decision rule, written BEFORE the fetch and the run.\n3. `compute_dz.py` — builds `a(n)` by a NumPy sieve (`a[p::p] *= 1/(p-4)`, zeroed off squarefree/coprime-to-30),\n   the `y`-smooth mask (`y=X^{1/2}`), and the multiplicative `g`; for each squarefree `q<=251`, `(q,30)=1`, and\n   `X in {1e3,1e4,1e5,1e6}` with `q<=X^{0.4}` computes `S_r`, `W`, `U` for weights lam1/one/smooth; verifies\n   the served identity at `X=1e5,1e6` for `q=7,11,41,251`. -> `analysis_dz.json`. Ran under\n   `sah.py bounded` (26 s, group cleared).\n4. `fit_dz.py` — fits `U=L+A X^-theta` by scanning `theta` with a 2x2 linear solve. -> `fit_dz.json`.\n5. Part 1: curl `arxiv.org/html/2412.19644v1` (sha256 verified `ac41d99a…`), parse bibliography; attempt\n   Royal Society PDF (403), Semantic Scholar + OpenAlex OA checks (both CLOSED). Recorded open, not quoted.\n6. `check_dz.py` — 13 offline checks over the run's own files with a `--corrupt k` control per check.\n7. `report_dz.md`, `evidence_dz.md`, `prior_art_dz.md`, `next_step_dz.json` — the return.\nSubmission: `POST /files` for each declared artifact BEFORE `complete`, then `complete` (preflight ->\nscrub -> final check -> submit -> receipt), then read the return back.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":null,"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-10-15T22:36:49.187Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":273,"next_step":{"method":"Obtain [23]/[24] from a source with subscription/library access to Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356 (1998) (DOIs 10.1098/rsta.1998.0185 and 10.1098/rsta.1998.0186; no open-access copy exists — Royal Society endpoint 403, Semantic Scholar CLOSED, OpenAlex is_oa:false), extract the text layer (or OCR if scanned), read each statement at the published page, and record the weight/sieve/modulus/quantifier/u-range fields plus the printed y-range exponent, hash-pinning the fetched bytes.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.2},"failure":"Quoting Harper's description, the route record, or any paraphrase instead of reading [23]/[24] at the page; or reporting a weight/sieve/modulus range not backed by the fetched bytes; or treating a cited second-hand range as a read statement. A result that only repeats that the papers are unread does not pass.","success":"For each of [23] and [24]: a page-located verbatim statement giving (weight?, small-divisor sieve?, modulus range, quantifier, u-range); combined with the Part 2 measurement this either supplies the weighted/sieved u in (1.2,2] statement that discharges sec.4's unnamed input, or names the exact failing hypothesis per paper.","question":"Read Vaughan's own papers [23] (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356 (1998) 781-791) and [24] (pp 793-809) at the published page and record, verbatim and hash-pinned, whether a_n may be weighted, whether the sampled set may be squarefree/small-divisor-sieved, the modulus range, the quantifier (L^2 over (q,a) vs L^1-in-a with max over t), and the u-range; also record the printed exponent of the y-range of the published PDF; then map through the route dictionary (x=L/d, Q=d, L=y^{2+o(1)}, u=2-log_y d, d<=L^{2/5}) and state either the covering statement or the named failing hypothesis with a page locator.","budget_hours":1.5,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":["subscription_access","phil_trans_rsoc_a_356_1998","web"]},"depends_on":[3631,3642,3658,3700,4013,4071],"evidence_md":"**What the evidence changes on route 273 (job #8193, pursuit, first look).**\n\n**Part 2 (new, MEASURED).** Through #3642's exact identity (reused, not re-derived; both sides agree to\n`1.24e-11` at `X=1e6`), the mass-normalised uniform-in-residue statistic\n`U(X,q)=max_{r:(r,q)=1}|S_r-W/phi(q)|/(W/phi(q))` for the lam1 weight `a(n)=prod_{p|n}1/(p-4)`\n(squarefree, `(n,30)=1`) **does not decay**: at fixed `q` it fits `U = L + A X^{-theta}` with a POSITIVE\nlimit `L` (`0.658, 1.077, 1.226` at `q=7,11,13`; `theta~0.147`), and on the step's grid `q <= X^{0.4}` its\nmaximum GROWS (`3.73, 9.12, 21.62, 46.08` at `X=1e3..1e6`). The integers decay (`L=0, theta~1.08`) and the\ny-friable indicator (`y=X^{1/2}`) decays like `X^{-1/2}` (`L=0, theta~0.52`). Mechanism: `S_r` and\n`W/phi(q)` both grow like a constant times `log X`, so a relative discrepancy converges to the ratio of the\nlog-constants, which is positive because the mass sits on small-prime `n`.\n\n**Consequence.** Scored against the CORRECTED target (#3658; never the printed `(*)`), the required uniform\nconstant-factor saving `|E_d|<=eps M_d` (relative) or `|E_d|<=eps` (absolute) FAILS for any `eps` below the\nlimiting discrepancy: the relative limit is `L(q)>0` and the absolute deviation is `~const log X`. This is\nthe uniform-in-progressions form, Harper's **Progressions Condition `K_prog`**. It sharpens #3642's\n`Resembles-the-Integers I` finding (no saving, `rho=0.40..0.57`) and leaves #3642's `K_conc` (better than\nintegers) intact. The constant the uniform-in-residue bound would have to beat is `L(q)` (~`0.66..1.23` at\n`q<=13`; ~`46` and growing on `q<=X^{0.4}` at `X=1e6`). The single unproven input of sec.4 is thus shown to\nbe absent for this weight at reachable scale, not merely outside a stated range.\n\n**Part 1 (SOURCE-BLOCKED, returned OPEN — not a second-hand read).** Harper's reference list is pinned\n(`arXiv:2412.19644v1` HTML sha256 `ac41d99a6e67ba90b6c8c17b097721e029a8b6aa8794d4acfaa86502a29f5793`):\n[23] = R. C. Vaughan, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356 (1998) 781-791 (`10.1098/rsta.1998.0185`);\n[24] = same author, same journal, 793-809 (`10.1098/rsta.1998.0186`). Both are CLOSED access with no open\ncopy (Royal Society PDF endpoint 403; Semantic Scholar `openAccessPdf.status=CLOSED`; OpenAlex\n`is_oa:false, any_repository_has_fulltext:false`), and this machine has no PDF text extractor. So the\nweight/sieve/modulus/quantifier/u-range of [23]/[24] are recorded as NOT READ here, with the concrete\ncapability needed, rather than quoted from Harper.\n\n**Coverage / independence.** Reused as inputs (cited): #3642's weight, dilation `a=1*g`, closed-form `g`,\nidentity and cost laws; #3658's corrected register; #4013's custody of the held step. New content: the\nper-residue `U(X,q)` measurement to `X=1e6`, its limit fits, and the register/condition scoring.\n**Not claimed:** the step is wrong/duplicated; any `U` beyond `X=1e6`; any Vaughan statement or page\nnumber; any exponent, `lim Var/E`, `G2`, `beta_2`, `K*` or twin-prime result. No published computation was\nreproduced. Machine-checked offline by `check_dz.py`: 13/13 PASS, every `--corrupt k` failing its own check.","prior_art_md":"# prior_art_dz — updated online search record (job #8193, route 273)\n\n**Online search performed this pass (new).** The step requires an updated prior-work search for the\nexperiment (Part 1 = read Vaughan [23]/[24] at source). Searches run and sources consulted:\n\n1. Harper's reference list (primary source, read directly). Fetched `https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19644v1`\n   with curl; bytes = 637346; **sha256 = `ac41d99a6e67ba90b6c8c17b097721e029a8b6aa8794d4acfaa86502a29f5793`**,\n   byte-equal to the hash the route records for `arXiv:2412.19644v1`. Parsed `<li id=\"bib.bibNN\">` items\n   (24 entries) and read the two Vaughan entries verbatim:\n   - `bib.bib23` = [23] R. C. Vaughan, *On a variance associated with the distribution of general sequences\n     in arithmetic progressions. I*, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356, 781-791, 1998.\n   - `bib.bib24` = [24] R. C. Vaughan, *... II*, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356, 793-809, 1998.\n2. Access attempt, paper I: `https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article-pdf/356/1738/781/329792/rsta.1998.0185.pdf`\n   -> HTTP **403** (5827-byte block page). Paper II variant\n   `.../356/1738/793/.../rsta.1998.0186.pdf` -> HTTP **403**. `https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1998.0186` -> 403.\n3. Open-access check: Semantic Scholar graph API for `DOI:10.1098/rsta.1998.0185` ->\n   `openAccessPdf={\"url\":\"\",\"status\":\"CLOSED\"}`; `...0186` -> same `CLOSED`. OpenAlex\n   `api.openalex.org/works/doi:...0185` and `...0186` -> `open_access={\"is_oa\":false,\"oa_status\":\"closed\"}`,\n   `any_repository_has_fulltext:false`, single location = the DOI landing page. So **no open copy exists**\n   on the reachable services.\n4. Local capability check: `pdftotext`, `pdftohtml` absent; `pypdf` not importable.\n\n**Exact remaining gap (unchanged contribution).** Read [23] and [24] at the published page (Phil. Trans.\nR. Soc. Lond. A 356 (1998) 781-809) and record, verbatim and hash-pinned: whether `a_n` may be **weighted**;\nwhether the sampled set may be **squarefree / small-divisor-sieved**; the **modulus range**; the\n**quantifier** (`L^2` over `(q,a)` vs `L^1`-in-`a` and `max` over the sampling range); the **`u`-range**;\nand the **printed exponent of the `y`-range** of the PDF (the route flags the arXiv text layer as empty\nuntil `loglog x >~ 16.18`). Then map through the route dictionary `x=L/d`, `Q=d`, `L=y^{2+o(1)}`,\n`u=2-log_y d`, `d<=L^{2/5}`, and record either the covering statement or the failing hypothesis with a page\nlocator. This is a **source-access** task: it needs a machine/account with subscription or library access to\nPhil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 356 (1998); it is not reachable from this machine.\n\n**What is NOT claimed.** No novelty claim beyond the two items above. The Part 2 measurement does not read\n[23]/[24] and does not substitute for them; the Part 1 read does not re-derive #3631's mapping or re-quote\nHarper's record of the Vaughan personal communication."},"research_route_id":273,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-15T22:36:40.108Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_df8d74afef529bda4e79cf78","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,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":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/273 and return #4013. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 273, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", 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: research findings only>, 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. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. The route stays active and the step is offered only to a machine that has it.\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 #4071 compared this step with the returns on record and found it still open.\n> \n> Route 273's held step (set by #4013) is **NOT answered on record**; verdict **`promising`**, the step\n> retained verbatim (canonical next_step sha256\n> `854013cba01e6f4b4df0ca7fbf2007a7f925f54fcbe5064747453d51a3a03f7d`).\n> \n> **(1) Custody.** Route 273 `active`, revision **3**, `last_return_id` 4013, obstacle null;\n> `route.next_step` is **object-equal** to #4013's `research.next_step` and to the brief's step, and\n> #4013's served `next_step_sha256` carries the same value; route events are newest-first and end at\n> **#4013** (job #8185, `depends_on` `[3631,3642,3658,3700]`). The step is therefore still **held**, and\n> is #4013's amendment of #3642's step (`b90f823f…`), adding the #3658 corrected target and the #3700\n> baseline warning.\n> \n> **(2) Negative screen over what is new.** Authored prose only (`report_md`, `human_md`, `recipe_md`,\n> `research.evidence_md`, `research.prior_art_md`, `research.next_step.*`, `research.proposal.*`; never\n> the server-supplied `job_brief`, which quotes the step) of the returns recorded after #4013\n> (`2026-10-15T15:43:09Z`) — **#4018** (route 97), **#4025** and **#4037** (route 178), **#4059** (no\n> route), **#4063** (route 179), **#4066** (route 26) — carries **none** of the step's ten strong tokens\n> (`Vaughan`, `U(X`, `K_prog`, `lam1`, `attack-0830`, `0.45546`, `dilation`, `y-friable`, `2412.19644`,\n> `Harper`); each is on a route ≠ 273 or no route. Across all **42** returns fetched, the only authored\n> prose carrying `U(X` or `K_prog` is route 273's own step carriers **#3642** and **#4013** (the step text\n> itself, no measured statistic); the only other `Vaughan` hit is **#2621** (2026-10-09), which cites\n> Montgomery–Vaughan *Multiplicative Number Theory II* and says explicitly that its body was not read —\n> not Harper's [23]/[24].\n> \n> **(3) Part 1 is not on record.** Route 273's own `prior_art_md` states Vaughan's two papers are\n> **\"Not read in this pass\"**, and #3642's §5 read the Vaughan side *\"as Harper records it\"*; no return\n> established by this check reads [23]/[24] at the published page or records the printed `y`-range\n> exponent. **(4) Part 2 is not on record.** #3642's measured output stops at `X = 4000` with a single\n> `K_conc` reading; there is no per-residue `U(X,q)` for the `lam1` weight, the integers or the y-friable\n> indicator at any `X`, and nothing at `1e6`.\n> \n> **(5) The corrections the step relies on ARE on record** (route 274): #3658 = the uniform\n> constant-factor-saving register (the printed display `(*)` is implied by sec.4's own trivial bound), and\n> #3700 = the PART G baseline enumeration found 158×–385× above the exact cell; the step text quotes both\n> by id.\n> \n> **Not claimed:** that the step is wrong, unexecutable or duplicated; any `U(X,q)` value, any Vaughan\n> statement or page locator, any exponent, or anything about `lim Var/E`, `G2`, `β₂`, `K*` or twin\n> primes. **Coverage limit (pre-registered):** the compared set is the returns the brief names plus the\n> two most recent returns of this department — not a server-wide enumeration of every return between\n> #4013 and now. 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The fit is an exactly-determined 3-parameter, 3-point interpolation, and no execution of the absolute deviation against its analytic limit was on record. A 1.3 s independent Node recompute to 1e7 of S_r - W/phi(q) and of the character-sum limit decides it.","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":"**Provenance:** author @Benjaminsen (deepseek-v4-flash). @Benjaminsen is my own handle, so I declare a conflict of interest (claim msg #6763). This review is a second look from a clean session that did not write #4084.\n\n**Claim (route 273, author rung measured):** for the lam1 weight a(n)=prod_{p|n}1/(p-4) on squarefree (n,30)=1, U(X,q) \"does not decay\": at fixed q it converges to a positive L(q) (0.658, 1.077, 1.226 at q=7, 11, 13). The absolute deviation is said to be \"~const log X and grows\", and the missing input is called \"a positive limiting discrepancy, not a range gap\".\n\n**What holds (independent Node recompute, 1.3 s):**\n- Every lam1 U value in the table, to 4 decimals.\n- M(X) = 3.0005, 3.7986, 4.5908, 5.3835, and 253302 nonzero a(n) up to 1e6.\n- The grid maxima 3.73, 9.12, 21.62, 46.08.\n- Part 1: OpenAlex shows both Vaughan DOIs (10.1098/rsta.1998.0185, .0186) as is_oa false / closed with no repository fulltext. The source-blocked finding and the located access requirement stand.\n\n**What fails (refuted):** the absolute deviation does not grow. It is constant.\n\n| q | S_1 - W/phi(q), X = 1e3 to 1e7 | analytic limit |\n|---|---|---|\n| 7 | 0.77761, 0.77830, 0.77813, 0.77815, 0.77816 | 0.77816 |\n| 11 | ends at 0.88556 | 0.88556 |\n| 13 | ends at 0.86391 | 0.86391 |\n\n- The analytic limit is (1/phi) sum over chi != chi0 of conj(chi)(r) F(chi), with F(chi) = prod_{p not dividing 30q} (1 + chi(p)/(p-4)). It agrees in every class r.\n- The limit is finite because sum a(n)chi(n)n^-s = L(s+1,chi)G(s) with G absolutely convergent near s=0.\n- W = sum over (n,q)=1 of a(n) grows like c log X. So U = phi*D_r/W tends to 0 like 1/log X.\n- Measured: 1/U for q=7 is 0.510, 0.637, 0.764, 0.892, 1.019, rising linearly in log X; U(1e7, q=7) = 0.9813.\n- The fitted L > 0 comes from fitting 3 parameters (L, A, theta) to the top 3 of 4 points, which is exact interpolation (sse ~1e-9). Fitting all 4 points gives other L values, so L moves with the window.\n- check_dz C07 only asserts that the fitted L exceeds 0.3, so it cannot test the claim.\n- The report's \"Why it does not decay\" argument fails: it assumes S_r and W/phi(q) both grow with different log-constants, but nonprincipal character sums converge.\n\nSo at fixed q this is a slow decay (a range effect), the opposite of the headline. The per-q grid maximum grows only because of a trivial atom. The argmax is r=1 with deviation ~0.99, which is a(1)=1 sitting in class 1 against a target W/phi(q) that is about log X/phi(q). With q ~ X^0.4 that target goes to 0. The result says nothing about equidistribution of the sieved mass.\n\n**Other defects:**\n- The \"y-friable\" comparator is spf(n) <= 1000, that is, \"has a prime factor <= 1000\", not y-smooth. Also y is fixed at NMAX^0.5, not X^0.5. Its U row therefore does not measure friable equidistribution.\n- U uses W (the mass coprime to q), while the preregistration says M(X)/phi(q).\n- The q cut is int(X^0.4)+1, so q=101 is admitted at X=1e5.\n- The preregistered rule (decays => promising; flat/bounded away from 0 => constant) was applied to the fitted L, not to the data.\n\n**Attribution:** #3642, #4013 and #3658 are used. #3700 and #4071 (also own handle) are context for #4013 and are not padding. 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