{"id":4114,"job_id":8416,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #8416 — route 187 first look (step check): the held step is **ALREADY ANSWERED on the record**, and by a producer the step-setter never checked\n\n**Outcome: `known`** — the step is answered by the served record, so no pursuit should be spent on it and\nthe replacement `next_step` is omitted (the brief's `known` clause: *\"The route stops here and the pursuit\nis not handed out\"*). Served records only (`GET /research-routes/187`, `/job/8416`, `/return/<id>`, and the\nserved docs snapshot): **no experiment was run, no sieve was executed, no scan was launched**. The whole\nevidence base is read out of served bytes; independent checker `controls_bg.py` **10/10 PASS, exit 0**\n(`controls_bg.out`), with 10 planted faults each failing their own check (`controls_bg.corrupt_exit.txt`).\n\n## The step under check\n\nRoute 187's served `next_step` **is** the step quoted in job #8416's brief: canonical sorted-key compact\nsha256 `faa5da375985df8a…` computed independently from both (control C10). It was set by **#2310**\n(route 187, job #4983) and asks: *is the suppression factor `S(x#) = [ln(Nc)/lambda_geo]/G2(x#)` the\nextreme-tail limit of `T_x(L) = #{candidate gaps >= L}/[Nc (1-mu_odd/2)^L]` — does `T_x(L)` have a flat\nplateau near `L = G2(x#)` at a level inside `[1.8, 2.4]`?* at `23#`, `29#`, `31#`. The comparanda the brief\nlists are 12 returns (`#3278, #2684, #2559, #2541, #2537, #2536, #2529, #2525, #2517, #2492, #2461, #2428`).\n\n## Headline: the answer is on the record, and it is NO\n\n**The step's own measurement already exists.** The served producer\n`docs/research/gap-spectrum-01.js` (snapshot `main`, sha256 `e57a839c67a0…`) carries an embedded\n`OUTPUT` block whose §1b publishes **the exact gap histogram of the twin-slot tile at nine levels\n`x = 5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31`** — including `23#`, `29#` and `31#`, the step's three rungs — and §3b of\nthe companion note `docs/research/history/staging/gap-spectrum-01.md` (ledger `Q-gap-spectrum`,\n`status: ANSWERED`) publishes the corresponding tail counts and their ratio to the renewal null.\nReturn **#3917** (job #7974, lane `dir-558`, `recorded`) both cites that producer for custody and\nre-derives from its published histogram block (\"*`gap-spectrum-01.js`'s OUTPUT block carries the x = 31\nrow and its full gap histogram (`@31` scan, 1280.5 s, published)*\"; R3 re-derives all nine levels).\n\n**The tile of that producer is exactly route 187's candidate-gap object.** Checked, not assumed\n(controls C01/C02/C06): `D_x = prod_{5<=p<=x}(p-2)` equals route 187's `Nc` to the digit at six levels\n(`135, 1 485, 22 275, 378 675, 7 952 175, 214 708 725, 6 226 553 025`), the published histogram satisfies\n`sum(counts) = D` and `sum(gap*count) = x#` **exactly** at every level, its mean `W/D = 28.0543` at\n`23#` equals `#2307`'s served `mean_gap` to 4 dp, and its maximum is the same `G2` ladder\n(`204 / 258 / 348`). So `T_x(L)` can be **read** from the record at the step's own rungs.\n\n### `T_x(L)` read from the published counts (no scan run)\n\n| rung | published thresholds | `T_x(L)` max (and where) | points with `T_x` in `[1.8, 2.4]` | `T_x(mbar)` / `T_x(2*mbar)` / `T_x(3*mbar)` | `T_x(G2)` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `23#` | 34 | **1.414** at `L = 30` | **0** | – / – / 0.418 | 8.3e-4 |\n| `29#` | 43 | **1.399** at `L = 30` | **0** | 1.399 / 0.900 / 0.522 | 5.6e-5 |\n| `31#` | 58 | **1.384** at `L = 30` | **0** | – / – / 0.511 | 3.8e-5 |\n\nAbove `2*mbar` the curve is already at `<= 0.83` (`23#`), `<= 0.76` (`29#`), `<= 0.82` (`31#`); above\n`G2/2` it is `<= 0.35 / 0.24 / 0.07`. **Not one of the 135 published thresholds at the three rungs lies in\n`[1.8, 2.4]`** (C03). The curve rises from ~1.2 to a maximum ~1.4 at `L = 30 ≈ mbar`, then falls by four\norders of magnitude to `T_x(G2)`. The note says the same thing in its own basis: *\"the ratio to the null is\nmonotone decreasing across the whole tail and falls by four orders of magnitude between `t = mbar` and\n`t = 7*mbar`. The tail is lighter than exponential, everywhere above the mean.\"*\n\n**So the step's success clause is answered NO — and the identification behind it is a scale confusion that\ncan be settled by algebra alone.** `S` is a *max-scale* ratio: linearly, `T_x(G2) = m * Nc^(1/S - 1)` with\n`m = #{gaps = G2}` (C05 verifies this identity to `1e-12` from the published `D, W, G2` and route 187's\n`S`). Since `S > 1` and `Nc` is large, `T_x(G2) = m * 2.82e-5` (`29#`) / `m * 9.38e-6` (`31#`): a level of\n`1.8` at `L = G2` would require `m >= 6.4e4` (`29#`) or `1.9e5` (`31#`) gaps of *exactly* maximal length.\nThe published multiplicities are `m = 4, 2, 4` at `23#,29#,31#` — four orders of magnitude below what the\nplateau reading needs (C09). The note states the same quantity as its own result: *\"its maximum is a\nfactor 2.087 to 2.241 short of renewal's rather than equal to it — a ratio that is flat, not drifting,\nover `x = 13..31`\"*; that factor **is** route 187's `S` (`2.087` at `31#`, `2.241` at `29#`, computed as\n`mbar*ln D/G2`, against the route's `2.0548 / 2.2032` — the two conventions differ only by\n`exp(L*mbar^-2/2)`, `<= 19 %` at the deepest rung, and the band test is nowhere near it).\n\n## What each return settles\n\n- **#2307** (route 187, job #4982): the exact `Nc`, `G2`, mean gap, `mu_odd`, `lambda_geo`, `S` and the\n  `50/90/99` percentile thresholds at `11#..23#` — the calibration rung's own tail points.\n- **#2310** (route 187, job #4983): the `29#`/`31#` rung values (`Nc = 214 708 725 / 6 226 553 025`,\n  `G2 = 258 / 348`, `S = 2.2032 / 2.0548`) and **the step itself**; it explicitly leaves the tail shape\n  open (*\"the strongest test now is the shape of the thinning, not the max\"*).\n- **#3917** (lane `dir-558`, job #7974, `recorded`): reports that `gap-spectrum-01.js`'s published OUTPUT\n  block carries the full histogram at every level `x = 5..31` (re-derived there, 43/43), and records the\n  reading *\"S/exp < 1 beyond ~1.05 mbar\"* at every level — i.e. the tail-ratio verdict in the step's own\n  object. This is the return that makes the step `known`; the brief's 12-return comparison set does not\n  contain it, and **none of those 12 publishes candidate-gap tail counts at all** (C08: three of them\n  mention the word \"histogram\" in prose about model classes, none tabulates a tail).\n- The served docs (`gap-spectrum-01.js`, `gap-spectrum-01.md`) are the carrier of the measurement itself;\n  `#3917` is the return that cites them for custody.\n\n## Why this is a `known` and not a `promising`\n\n`promising` would hand the held pursuit (`#4988`, held on the unchanged-step comparison) a task whose\nentire measurement is already published: the run would re-derive counts that sit in the served OUTPUT\nblock, and — worse — would test the step's own clauses, whose *failure* clause (\"`T_x(L)` drifts\nmonotonically … the fixed-thinning hypothesis is refuted\") misfires on the record's numbers, because the\ndrift is the *definitional* shadow of `S`, not a refutation of it. The record answers the question and\nidentifies the defect; no further measurement is needed to decide it.\n\n## Not claimed\n\nNo new bound, no new measurement, no new number about `G2`, the gap distribution, `rho_k`, `CV²`, the\nexponent or twin infinitude; nothing here is a claim on any other route. No scan was run and no producer\nwas re-executed: every figure above is read from served bytes (or is the elementary identity C05, itself\nverified against those bytes). Caveat on the two normalisations (`(1-mu_odd/2)^L` vs `exp(-L/mbar)`), as\nquantified above. Provenance caveat for the record-owner: the decisive carrier is a **served doc plus a\ncustody citation in #3917**, not a return that states the answer in its own report text — if the platform\nwants the route's `known` to rest on a return's own evidence, `#3917`'s R1/R3 block is the nearest one.\n\n## Cheapest re-check\n\n`cd .solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-16-bg/work && python3 tail_from_published_bg.py && python3 step_check_bg.py\n&& python3 controls_bg.py` reproduces every number in this report from the run-local served copies in\nunder a second, exit 0; `for k in $(seq 1 10); do python3 controls_bg.py --corrupt $k; done` exits 1 with a\nnamed FAIL each time.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-16T01:40:44.689Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[2310]},"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 — reproducing this step check (run-2026-10-16-bg, job #8416)\n\nEverything is offline apart from the journaled GETs that fetched the served sources. **No sieve runs, no\nscan runs, no producer is re-executed** — the whole result is a reading of served bytes.\n\n```bash\ncd /work/.solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-16-bg/work\n\n# 1. fetch the served sources (journaled, read-only GETs; bodies + response sha256 in served_bg/)\npython3 fetch_bg.py            # route 187, job 8416, returns 2310/2307, dir-558 + g2-exponent state\npython3 fetch_compare_bg.py    # the 12 returns the brief lists as comparanda\npython3 fetch_files_bg.py      # #2310/#2307 artifacts by sha256, raw bytes, sha-checked\n# docs snapshot: GET /projects/twin-primes/docs/research/gap-spectrum-01.js and\n#                    /docs/research/history/staging/gap-spectrum-01.md  (fetched in this run, saved under served_bg/docs/)\n\n# 2. the step check itself\npython3 step_check_bg.py        # -> step_check_bg.json / .out   (served rung table, identity, band test)\npython3 tail_from_published_bg.py   # -> tail_from_published_bg.json / .out (T_x(L) read from the\n                                    #    published OUTPUT 1b histogram of gap-spectrum-01.js)\n\n# 3. controls (10 checks; each has its own planted fault)\npython3 controls_bg.py                                  # 10/10 PASS, exit 0\nfor k in $(seq 1 10); do python3 controls_bg.py --corrupt $k; done   # each exits 1 with a named FAIL\n\n# 4. completion (the run's single path)\npython3 ship_bg.py              # uploads artifacts via POST /files, sha-checks each, builds payload_bg.json\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py check-payload --in payload_bg.json\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py complete --run run-2026-10-16-bg \\\n        --attempt <this attempt> --payload payload_bg.json\n```\n\nKey inputs (run-local, sha256 recorded in `step_check_bg.json.sources` and\n`tail_from_published_bg.json.source`):\n`served_bg/job_8416.json`, `served_bg/route_187.json`, `served_bg/files/return_2307__check_i.out.json`,\n`served_bg/files/return_2310__evidence_md.md`, `served_bg/files/return_2310__report_l.md`,\n`served_bg/docs/gap-spectrum-01.js` (sha256 `e57a839c67a0…`), `served_bg/docs/gap-spectrum-01.md`.\n\nWhat each script does: `step_check_bg.py` parses the served rung values (`#2307` machine-readable for\n`11#..23#`, `#2310`'s text tables for `29#/31#`, cross-checked against `#2310`'s `report_l.md` table),\nrecomputes `lambda_geo`, `S`, `pred_max` and the derived tail points at the served quantile thresholds,\nscans the brief's 12-return comparison set for tail-count markers, and prints the verdict block.\n`tail_from_published_bg.py` parses the EMBEDDED OUTPUT §1b histogram of the served producer and forms\n`T_x(L) = #{gaps >= L}/[Nc (1-mu_odd/2)^L]` at every published threshold for `23#/29#/31#` (and, as\nextra calibration, `13#..19#`), then tests the band `[1.8, 2.4]` and the identity\n`T_x(G2) = m*Nc^(1/S-1)`.\n\n**Judgement calls, recorded.** (a) `T_x` is evaluated at integer thresholds on the published histogram\ngrid, so a threshold landing on a gap value includes that gap's multiplicity (this is what makes\n`T_x(30) = 1.4` rather than the note's `meas/null = 0.88` at `t = 1.0 mbar = 30.13`; both readings are\nbelow the band by a wide margin). (b) The step's own rungs are `23#/29#/31#`; `13#..19#` are printed only\nas calibration. (c) No external web search: the decisive source is in this project's own served corpus,\nwhich the brief itself points at. (d) `depends_on` names `#2307, #2310` (the route's own returns, whose\nvalues are used) and `#3917` (the return that reports and re-derives the published histogram) — plus the\nserved docs, which are not return ids and so cannot be listed there.","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":"2026-10-16T01:43:26.774Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"known","route_id":187,"depends_on":[2307,2310,3917],"evidence_md":"# evidence — job #8416 (route 187 step check, lane dir-558): each named return, and what it settles\n\n**#2307** (route 187, job #4982) — the object and its calibration rung. Served `check_i.out.json` gives, at\n`x = 11,13,17,19,23`: `n_cand = Nc` (135, 1485, 22275, 378675, 7952175), `mean_gap` (…, 28.0543 at 23#),\n`max_gap = G2` (…, 204), `mu_odd`, `lambda_geo = -ln(1-mu_odd/2)`, `pred_max_iid = ln(Nc)/lambda_geo`,\n`S = pred_max_iid/G2` (…, 2.1459) and the gap quantile thresholds `p50/p90/p99` (24/54/96 at 23#). It fixes\nthe definitions this step uses and shows the candidate-gap object is the twin-slot tile.\n\n**#2310** (route 187, job #4983) — the rungs and the step. Served `evidence_md.md`/`report_l.md` give\n`29#`: `P = 6 469 693 230`, `Nc = 214 708 725`, `G2 = 258`, `mu_odd = 0.0663737`, `lambda = 0.03375003`,\n`pred_max = 568.44`, `S = 2.2032`, and `31#`: `Nc = 6 226 553 025`, `G2 = 348`, `mu_odd = 0.0620915`,\n`lambda = 0.03153789`, `pred_max = 715.08`, `S = 2.0548`; the `S` ladder is `1.9395 … 2.0548` over seven\nrungs. Its own `next_step.json` (canonical sha256 `faa5da37…`, identical to the step quoted in job #8416's\nbrief) poses the question answered here. #2310 **does not** measure the tail curve: its instrument\naccumulates only the running maximum and `Nc`, and it states \"*the strongest test now is the shape of the\nthinning, not the max*\". So the route's own two returns leave the step open.\n\n**#3917** (lane `dir-558`, job #7974, recorded) — the carrier of the answer. It reports and re-derives from\n`docs/research/gap-spectrum-01.js`'s published OUTPUT block: \"*carries the x = 31 row and its full gap\nhistogram (`@31` scan, 1280.5 s, published)*\"; R1 records \"*S/exp < 1 beyond ~1.05 mbar*\" at every level\n`x = 5..31`; R3 re-derives the whole table (43/43) with `sum(counts) = D` and `sum(gap*count) = x#` exact.\nThat is the step's answer: the tail ratio is below 1 above ~1 mbar and decreasing, with no plateau at the\nlevel of `S`.\n\n**The served docs themselves** — `docs/research/gap-spectrum-01.js` (sha256 `e57a839c67a0…`, snapshot\n`main`) publishes the full histogram at nine levels `x = 5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31` (OUTPUT §1b), and\n`docs/research/history/staging/gap-spectrum-01.md` (ledger `Q-gap-spectrum`, `status: ANSWERED`) publishes\nthe tail counts at `29#`/`31#` and the verdict \"*the tail is uniformly steeper than exponential … the\nmaximum is 2.087 to 2.241 BELOW the renewal maximum*\". Read directly, those bytes give `D = Nc` and the\nsame `G2` ladder at the three step rungs (checks C01/C02/C06), so `T_x(L)` is a record lookup:\n`T_x` max `1.414 / 1.399 / 1.384` at `23#/29#/31#`, **0 of 135 published thresholds in `[1.8, 2.4]`**,\n`T_x(G2) = 8.3e-4 / 5.6e-5 / 3.8e-5` with published max-gap multiplicities `m = 4 / 2 / 4`.\n\n**The brief's 12-return comparison set** (`#3278, #2684, #2559, #2541, #2537, #2536, #2529, #2525, #2517,\n#2492, #2461, #2428`) settles nothing about the tail: every one of them computes lag moments\n`C_k/rho_k/q1` of the reduced or paired gap *word*, a shell/separation statistic, or a design comparison —\nnone tabulates candidate-gap tail counts, and a marker scan over their served `report_md` + `evidence_md`\nfinds no tail-count evidence at all (C08; three mention \"histogram\" only as a model-class word). Notably\n**#2428** (route 202) does compute the paired word at `29#`/`31#` with `N_A = Nc` matching `#2310` — the\nsame object, a different statistic (`rho_k`), which is why it looks like the answer and is not.\n\n**Net.** `known`: the step's measurement is published; its success clause is answered NO; the factor\n`S in [1.8, 2.4]` is the max-scale shortfall ratio, not a tail level (`T_x(G2) = m * Nc^(1/S-1)`, so a\nlevel of 1.8 at `L = G2` needs `m >= 6.4e4` at `29#` and `1.9e5` at `31#`). No experiment run, no sieve\nexecuted, no producer re-run.","prior_art_md":"# prior art — the tail-thinning question of route 187 (job #8416 step check)\n\nServed records only (`/research-routes/187`, `/return/<id>`, the `/docs/` snapshot `main`); no external\nsearch, because the decisive source is inside this project's own corpus.\n\n1. **`docs/research/gap-spectrum-01.js`** (sha256 `e57a839c67a0…`, 1350 lines; companion note\n   `docs/research/history/staging/gap-spectrum-01.md`, ledger `id: Q-gap-spectrum`, `status: ANSWERED`,\n   2026-08-28). It computes *\"THE FULL GAP-LENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF TWIN SLOTS OVER ONE PERIOD OF THE\n   TILE\"* at every level in reach — *\"the tail counts `#{g > t}` on a geometric grid of `t/mbar`\"*, one\n   segmented pass per level — and its embedded OUTPUT §1b publishes the histogram for nine levels\n   `x = 5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31`. This is the strongest prior art and it predates route 187 (registered\n   2026-10-05) by five weeks; its own \"what already existed\" section names only\n   `attack-foldL-03-transport.js`'s three-threshold tail-count profile and `scanstat2.md`'s `maxsum_m` grid,\n   and says of the corpus: *\"It does NOT hold the distribution itself. This file computes it.\"*\n2. **`gap-spectrum-01.md`** §3a–§3c — the readings the step asks for: the shape table (`D`, mean `W/D`,\n   max `= G2`, max/mean, `ln D`, sd/mean, skew); the `29#`/`31#` tail-count tables with `meas/null`; *\"the\n   ratio to the null is monotone decreasing across the whole tail\"*; body log-tail slopes `-1.3638 @29`,\n   `-1.3302 @31` against renewal's `-1`; whole-range OLS slopes `-1.5484 … -2.0283`; the maximum *\"a\n   factor 2.087 to 2.241 BELOW the renewal maximum\"*, flat over `x = 13..31`. §3d: no heavy-tail route at\n   computable levels.\n3. **Return #3917** (job #7974, lane `dir-558`, recorded, 2026-10-15) — cites that producer for custody,\n   re-derives its histogram block at all nine levels (`shape_cr.py`, 43/43; `sum(counts) = D`,\n   `sum(gap*count) = W` exact), and states *\"S/exp < 1 beyond ≈ 1.05 mbar … → 1 as x grows\"*.\n4. **Route 187's own returns** — `#2307` (job #4982: `Nc`, `G2`, mean, `mu_odd`, `lambda_geo`, `S`, gap\n   quantile thresholds at `11#..23#`), `#2310` (job #4983: the `29#`/`31#` rungs, the `S` ladder, and the\n   step under check). Route 187's contribution claims as new *\"the exact candidate-gap length distribution\n   of the paired system mod `x#`\"* — the object gap-spectrum-01.js had already published.\n5. **Neighbours that are *not* the answer** — `#2428`/`#2426` (route 202: paired-carrier `rho_k`, `q1`\n   bridge, `29#`/`31#`, `N_A = Nc`), `#2492` (paired lift-deletion recursion, `11#..23#`), `#2541`/`#2537`\n   (route 225: lag budget of the *reduced* word), `#2517`/`#2536` (route 186/180: merge-recursion closed\n   form), `#2525`/`#2529` (route 224: binned mutual information), `#2461`/`#2559`/`#2684`/`#3278` (routes\n   196/180: shell separation, c-range, recovered completion). All lag/moment/shell statistics on the same\n   or a neighbouring word; none publishes a gap tail histogram.\n\n**Exact difference from the nearest prior work.** The step's `T_x(L)` differs from gap-spectrum's `N1`\nonly in the reference: the route uses `Nc*(1-mu_odd/2)^L` (geometric hazard), the note `D*exp(-t/mbar)`\nwith `mbar = W/D`. Since `mu_odd = 2D/W` the two agree to `exp(L*mbar^-2/2)` — `<= 1.19x` at `L = G2 = 348`\nand `< 1.01x` below `L = 90` — and neither reaches `[1.8, 2.4]`. What is new here is none of the numbers:\nit is the record-level finding that the step was already answered, plus the identity\n`T_x(G2) = m*Nc^(1/S-1)` showing why the step's clause could not fire as written.\n\n**Novelty claim (small).** No external search was run; within the corpus the tail-count grid and the\nmax-shortfall ratio predate route 187. 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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\":\"Exact, no sampling. Extend check_l.py's streaming sieve to accumulate the tail counts #{candidate gaps >= L} for a set of thresholds L spanning the top decade up to and including G2(x#), at 23#, 29# and 31#. Form T_x(L) = count(L) / [Nc * (1 - mu_odd/2)^L] with mu_odd = prod_{p odd <= x}(p-2)/p, and report whether T_x(L) flattens to S(x#) as L -> G2 and whether the plateau level lies in [1.8, 2.4] at both new rungs. Re-derive 23# as the calibration. One combined pass; the 31# full period took 310 s here. Run under sah.py bounded.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":1,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":1},\"failure\":\"T_x(L) drifts monotonically through the extreme tail with no plateau at one or both new rungs; then no single suppression constant exists, the fixed-thinning hypothesis is refuted, and the route narrows to bounding the thinning curve rather than a number.\",\"success\":\"T_x(L) has a flat extreme-tail plateau at both 29# and 31# whose level is within [1.8, 2.4] and equals the corresponding S(x#); then S is identified as the thinning constant and the route's fixed-thinning hypothesis is a statement about the whole tail curve, ready for the g2-exponent lane to bound.\",\"question\":\"Is the suppression factor S(x#) the extreme-tail limit of a tail-thinning curve T_x(L) = #{gaps >= L} / [Nc * (1 - mu_odd/2)^L], i.e. does T_x(L) have a flat plateau at the extreme tail (L near G2(x#)) whose level is the measured S(x#) in [1.8, 2.4]?\",\"budget_hours\":1,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"numpy\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2307, #2310 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #3278 (route 180, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 180 job #5322 (recovered completion) ## Served inputs (fetched by sha256 into this run; journal response sha == requested sha) - `solve_bn.json` sha256 `8e21fd46f22b6c116d53d1628a84d78d9e5021e0958431f08309d6ec8046819f` (#2428): exact integer reduced-lane moments `S2, C1..C4`, `m, P`, `rho` for `x=11,13,17,19,23,29,31`. - `fresh_moments.json` sha256 `cf840135a6f4136ae47e8dd28a\n- Return #2684 (route 196, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 196: c-range extension and the rho-threshold truncation (job #5351) Measured, not a record comparison. Pre-registered (`PREREGISTRATION_hg.md`, frozen before any new number); every number is re-derived offline from this run's own tables by `check_hg.py` — **187 checks, 0 fails, exit 0**; `--corrupt` flips **4/4** planted faults to FAIL. **C8 cross-run reproduction**: all 12 ove\n- Return #2559 (route 196, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 196: the fixed-shell-coordinate profile of E = MT/M₂ − 1 (job #5221) Measured, not a record comparison. Pre-registered (`prereg_fe.md`, frozen before any new number); every number is re-derived offline from this run's own per-shell tables by `check_fe.py` — **349 checks, 0 fails, exit 0**; `--corrupt` flips 19 planted mutations to FAIL. Instrument: the SERVED `compute_cq.py` of\n- Return #2541 (route 225, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — exact lag budget at x = 29 (run-2026-10-08-en, job #5324, route 225) Object (route 180/186/225): for `P = x#`, `g` = cyclic gap word of the reduced residues `gcd(t,P)=1` with wrap gap; `n = phi(P)`; `gbar = P/n`; `C_k = sum_i (g_i-gbar)(g_{i+k}-gbar)` (cyclic); `rho_k = C_k/C_0`; `S(K) = sum_{k=1}^{K} rho_k`; identity `S(n-1) = -1` exactly. ## Method and its exactness `G_k = sum_i \n- Return #2537 (route 225, proposed, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — exact lag-budget of the `x#` reduced-residue gap word (run-2026-10-08-ej, job #5323) Object and convention are route 180/186's: for `P = x#`, `g` is the cyclic gap word of the reduced residues `gcd(n,P)=1` (wrap gap `P - t_last + t_first` closes the cycle), `n = phi(P)`, `x_i = g_i - gbar`, `C_k = sum_i x_i x_{i+k}`, `rho_k = C_k / C_0`. ## E1 (exact, elementary) — the total budget \n- Return #2536 (route 180, progress, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #5119 (route 180 pursue): the leading 1/p term of #2396's recursion does not fix 1/2 ## Claim The accepted merge recursion of #2396, rewritten in the previous wheel's normalised moments, is a **near-identity**: `rho_1(Q) = rho_1(q) + O(1/p)`. Its leading `1/p` drift is inconsistent with a constant law `-rho_1(x#)·ln x -> A` by a factor `~2.4` on the recorded wheels. So the flat `\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 #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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