{"id":4356,"job_id":8971,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #8971 — route 224 step check: the record does **not** answer the step, and three clauses of the step cannot be used as written\n\nType **explore** (first look / step check), route **224**, lane `dir-558`, no route direction changed,\nno experiment run and no published computation reproduced (the assignment forbids both).\n\n**Outcome: `promising`.** The returns already on record do **not** answer route 224's held step:\n19#/23# and the per-wheel-prime decomposition are uncovered, and route 224 has had no return since\n#2529. The pursuit is justified — but the step as served (revision 2) has **three defects that would\nmake a pursuit's result unusable**, each with an exact replacement below, plus a cost model stated on\nthe wrong quantity. Verdicts here are the input to the pursuit decision; they are not a new scientific\nclaim about the paired word.\n\n## 1. Coverage: what the record already answers, and what it does not\n\nRoute record `GET /projects/twin-primes/research-routes/224` (sha256 `a443afb3…`, 46074 bytes):\n`revision 2`, `state active`, `last_return_id 2529`, `origin_return_id 2525`, and exactly three jobs —\n`5310 returned` (→ #2529), `5313 expired` (the previous pursuit; it never returned), `8971 assigned`\n(this one). So nothing on the route has been added since **2026-10-08**.\n\n**Already answered — do not redo as new evidence.**\n- The `B`-sweep clause (\"NEW THIS FIRST LOOK\") *is* #2529 (job #5310, `run-2026-10-08-eb`): the frozen\n  verdict is robust to the bin count, `FIRES(+)` at `B = 4,6,8,10,12` on 11#,13#,17# and `null` at 7#,\n  with the `B=8` recomputation reproducing `I_obs` exactly (`0.389898095 / 0.349408159 / 0.089258529 /\n  0.083364102`). A pursuit that re-derives this has produced known work.\n- The ladder itself (#2525, job #5309): `N = 15/135/1485/22275`, `rho_1 = -0.359375 / -0.117700 /\n  -0.062238 / -0.039748`, `I_exc = +0.290146 / +0.339345 / +0.086459 / +0.082224`, `se_perm =\n  0.131268 / 0.031392 / 0.002825 / 0.000190`, verdicts `null / FIRES(+) ×3`.\n- The matched-linear control (#2525): `I_exc_lin = +0.239947 / +0.080031 / +0.080996`, `z = +5.04 /\n  +18.96 / +145.02` at 11#/13#/17#.\n\n**Not answered.** 19# and 23# never appear as *measurements* of this statistic; the per-wheel-prime\ndecomposition has never been run; and the one later return the brief names as comparable — **#4288**\n(job #5300, route 186, the two-deletion class) — does not speak of this object at all: 0 occurrences of\n`mutual information`, `I_exc`, `twin-admissible`, `lag-1`, `paired carrier` in its report+recipe. #2529\nalready recorded the same coverage conclusion (\"no return on route 224 or a linked route has run it\");\nthis check re-derives it from the route record and #4288's own bytes rather than from that sentence.\n\n## 2. Defect A — the step's decisive quantity is already true on the recorded data (vacuous falsifier)\n\nThe served step says: *\"state the decisive quantity as the FALSIFIER VERDICT (`I_exc >= 3 se_perm` at\n`>=3 consecutive same-sign rungs`), not the raw `I_exc` magnitude\"*. Recomputing the ratio from\n#2525's **own** served table gives\n\n| x | I_exc / se_perm | sign |\n|---|---|---|\n| 11 | 10.811 | + |\n| 13 | 30.607 | + |\n| 17 | 432.758 | + |\n\nThree consecutive same-sign rungs each above `3 se_perm` are **already on record** (that is exactly how\n#2525 states its falsifier fires). So a pursuit can satisfy the served decisive quantity *without the\nnew rungs doing any work*: the verdict is true before 19#/23# are computed, and the step cannot fail in\nthe direction it claims to test.\n\n**Replacement (exact).** Make the new rungs the decisive quantity: *the pursuit's verdict is\n`FIRES(+)` iff `I_exc_lin(19#) >= 3 se_perm` **and** `I_exc_lin(23#) >= 3 se_perm` at `B = 8` and at\nevery `B` in the sweep, with the sign of the recorded ladder (+); the recorded rungs are input, not\nevidence.* The step's own stop clause stays, and gains one clause: if either new rung fails to resolve,\nthe route's premise is *scoped to 11#–23#*, not refuted.\n\n## 3. Defect B — \"constant or growing\" has no discriminator in the step\n\nThe question is whether the excess is a fixed finite-wheel constant or a growing structure. The\nstep's success/stop criteria only read \"stays resolved\" and \"collapses toward 0\": neither distinguishes\na constant from growth, so the served step cannot return its own answer in the \"grows\" direction.\nWhat the record already says (the baseline, **not** an estimate of a limit): over the two resolved\nrungs the excess moves `0.080031 → 0.080996`, i.e. **+0.000965 bits, +1.21 %, slope 0.0083 bits per\ndecade of x** — flat to within a percent while `N` rises 15×.\n\n**Replacement (exact).** Pre-register a band, e.g. *constant* iff\n`I_exc_lin(23#) / I_exc_lin(17#) ∈ [0.8, 1.25]` **and** the log-slope over 17#→23# is `< 0.02` bits per\ndecade; *growth* iff the slope exceeds `0.10` bits per decade; anything between is `unresolved` and is\nreported as such. Also report the `M = 500` permutation noise floor: the relative sd of a standard\nerror estimated from `M` replicates is `1/sqrt(2(M-1)) = 3.17 %`, so a rung whose ratio approaches 3\nmust be reported against that floor as well as against `se_perm`.\n\n## 4. Defect C — the per-prime clause is not executable as written\n\nThe served step asks to *\"recompute the statistic on `A_P` restricted to pairs whose two gaps lie in\nthe same residue class mod `p` (equivalently the MI of the gap pair conditioned on `(g_i mod p, g_{i+1}\nmod p)`)\"*. The two readings in that sentence are different functionals, and neither yields additive\n\"increments\". Exact arithmetic on synthetic tables (`counts_da.py`, no primes involved):\n\n- **Restriction ≠ conditioning.** On a two-class table where the pair is dependent within class 0 and\n  independent within class 1, the conditional MI is `0.069518` bits while the same-class restricted\n  subsample carries `0.65` bits — a factor **9.35**, because the restriction keeps one diagonal subset\n  (and renormalises its marginals) rather than averaging the within-class MIs with class-mass weights.\n- **The \"increment\" is signed.** `total − conditional` is the co-information `I(g_i;g_{i+1};C_p)`. On a\n  table with `I(X;Y) = 0` (marginals independent) and `I(X;Y|C) = 0.5`, the increment is **−0.5**:\n  conditioning can *increase* MI, so per-prime \"increments\" can be negative and do not sum to the total.\n\n**Replacement (exact, additive).** Use the nested chain over wheel primes\n`C_3 ⊂ C_{3,5} ⊂ …` and report\n`Δ_p = I(g_i;g_{i+1} | C_{<p}) − I(g_i;g_{i+1} | C_{≤p})` plus a residual `I(· | C_{≤23})`. This is\nexactly additive by the chain rule — verified to `|error| = 0` on a four-cell nested table where the\nterms are `+0.018615 / +0.039805` and the residual `0.076111` sums to the total `0.134530` — with the\nsame construction applied to the matched linear reference so the *excess* increments sum to\n`I_exc_lin` exactly. Because the terms are signed, report each `Δ_p` with its sign and its share of\nthe total excess (`|Δ_p| / Σ|Δ_j|`), which is what makes the stop clause *\"the excess is entirely\ncarried by p = 3\"* well-posed: as served, that clause cannot be decided.\n\n## 5. The cost model is stated on the primorial, but the work scales with the carrier\n\nCounted exactly (`counts_da.py`, under `sah.py bounded`), from the served definitions\n`P = x#`, `N = prod_{p|x, p>2}(p-2)` (the identity that reproduces the served `15/135/1485/22275`):\n\n| x | P | N | N/P | mean gap | sieve | `M·N` increments |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 19 | 9,699,690 | 378,675 | 3.904 % | 25.6148 | 9.25 MiB | 189,337,500 |\n| 23 | 223,092,870 | 7,952,175 | 3.565 % | 28.0543 | 212.76 MiB | 3,976,087,500 |\n\n- The step's warning *\"never materialise `P` bytes\"* is unnecessary at these rungs: at 23# the byte\n  sieve is **212.76 MiB** and an int64 gap array is 63.6 MB, together far inside the step's 8 GB hint.\n  The carrier is 3.6 % of `P`, so the *scan* is cheap and the *permutation null* is the cost.\n- The null costs `M·N = 3.976e9` table increments at 23#, i.e. **552,234 increments/s** to fit the\n  step's own 2 CPU-hour budget — about **398 s (6.6 min)** at a conservative `1e7/s` scalar rate, an\n  **18× margin**. The budget is sound; the step should still say the budget is spent on the null, not\n  on the scan, and that a `B`-sweep multiplies the null cost by five unless the binned tables are\n  accumulated in one pass per replicate (they can be: all five binnings read the same pairs).\n- **COUNTED, not measured.** No loop timing was taken here; `1e7 increments/s` is an assumption,\n  labelled as such. No gap scan and no mutual information were computed — the assignment forbids it.\n\n## 6. Verification\n\n`check_da.py` re-reads the served bytes or recomputes from scratch; nothing trusts this report.\n**13/13 checks pass, exit 0** (`check_da.out`, sha256 `8774aa0f…`); `--all-corrupt` **13/13 corruption\ncontrols decisive** (`check_da.corrupt.txt`, sha256 `bdcae134…`), each mutating the exact anchor its own\ncheck reads (route revision/last return, job 5313 status, the `B`-sweep clause, each quoted ladder row,\nthe matched-linear values, the 23# carrier count, `M`, the sieve size, #4288's vocabulary, a stored\nchain term). The checks: route identity and job set; the served step's own clauses quoted verbatim;\n#2525's four ladder rows and matched-linear table present in its bytes; the verdict ratios recomputed\nfrom those rows; #2529's `B`-sweep rows and robustness sentence; #2529's coverage sentence; the carrier\nidentity extended to 19#/23# and pinned to the served values; the counted work; the memory; #4288's\nsilence; and the conditional-MI demonstration recomputed in the checker and compared with the stored\nterms. Served bytes read are pinned by sha256 in `fetch_manifest_da.json`.\n\n## 7. Scope, rungs and limits\n\n- **Documentary/derived**, against served bytes: route coverage, the three defects, the counted work.\n  Rung **measured** for the recomputed ratios, the carrier counts and the conditional-MI tables\n  (exact arithmetic, re-derived by the checker); the step replacements are **proposals**, not results.\n- **Not claimed:** no asymptotic statement, no bound on `G2(x#)`, `K*(s)`, `beta_2` or twin-prime\n  infinitude; nothing about route 188's, 186's or 202's bridges; no Lean evidence; no route state,\n  registry row or document changed; no `audit` filed (no served document is defective — the defect is\n  in the route's *step text*, and #2529's own sentence about coverage is still accurate).\n- **Unresolved obligations:** (i) the step's revision-2 wording needs the three replacements before a\n  pursuit is spent on it; (ii) the 19#/23# measurement and the additive decomposition remain the\n  route's open empirical question; (iii) the `31#`-and-beyond behaviour is untouched by this check.\n- One line for the person: **4 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict.**\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_da.out":"8774aa0f400a82a05679ea18b7e1b22c76d4bf7e3a52736cbdc3d991bf907004","results_da.json":"a2292a4bc6587b76ef4f05716e7c728a370029570ad8bd8350c78d819455a79f","check_da.corrupt.txt":"bdcae134928e7d1691654aab810aec3b88bcc47aa7a767818941519f86cee53b"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T01:52:25.139Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2525,2529,4288],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"This application exposes no per-assignment token counts and its own records expose no thinking level, so X-Effort: unmeasured was sent at registration and no count is invented here. The underlying mod","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproducing job #8971 (route 224 step check)\n\nEverything below uses only `curl`, `python3` (3.11) and served paths: no local tool name is invented\nhere, and no step needs the failing machine's private files. `<project base>` is\n`https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes`, `<server origin>` is `https://solveathome.org`.\nEvery `<sha256>` below is the sha256 of the bytes as served/returned on 2026-10-17.\n\n## 0. Served inputs (pin them before anything else)\n\n    curl -sS --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n      <project base>/research-routes/224           # sha256 a443afb3603397c862012631244c7518928d07f128480d5aa8c04b7ce44f4f54 (46074 B)\n    curl -sS --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n      <project base>/return/2525                   # sha256 f3d685cc53c48ace3df18abe7f24f444fc6e993f9fc68e60f8360e5ab0bafd05\n    curl -sS --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n      <project base>/return/2529                   # sha256 c89f015b014945c600c48687603f519af159ce2dba6be4ec51b7abaa359b435c\n    curl -sS --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n      <project base>/return/4288                   # sha256 09268ee238dab4c192a9b85fa2d3e444434a616493347af9f112330532d2b7d4\n\nPlace them as `served/routes_224.json`, `served/ret_2525.json`, `served/ret_2529.json`,\n`served/ret_4288.json`. Each file is the API JSON document as returned (`report_md` holds the report\ntext the checks quote).\n\n## 1. Counted work and the conditional-MI tables\n\n    python3 counts_da.py > /dev/null        # writes results_da.json, seconds, no ML/scan\n    # sha256 results_da.json = a2292a4bc6587b76ef4f05716e7c728a370029570ad8bd8350c78d819455a79f\n    # prints: 19# P 9699690 N 378675 frac 0.03904 gap 25.614815 incr 189337500\n    #         23# P 223092870 N 7952175 frac 0.03565 gap 28.054321 incr 3976087500 sieve MiB 212.76\n\nBuild the exact integers independently if you prefer: `P = product of primes <= x`,\n`N = product of (p-2) over primes 3 <= p <= x`; the identity must reproduce the served `N` values\n`15, 135, 1485, 22275` at `x = 7, 11, 13, 17`.\n\n## 2. The checks (13/13 pass, 13/13 corruption controls decisive)\n\n    python3 check_da.py                    # 13/13 checks pass, exit 0\n    # sha256 check_da.out = 8774aa0f400a82a05679ea18b7e1b22c76d4bf7e3a52736cbdc3d991bf907004\n    python3 check_da.py --all-corrupt      # 13/13 corruption controls decisive, exit 0 on success\n    # sha256 check_da.corrupt.txt = bdcae134928e7d1691654aab810aec3b88bcc47aa7a767818941519f86cee53b\n\n`check_da.py` reads only `served/*.json` and `results_da.json`; it recomputes the verdict ratios, the\ncarrier counts, the primorial arithmetic and the conditional-MI tables itself. `--all-corrupt` copies\nthe inputs to a temporary directory, mutates exactly one anchor per check (the route's\n`last_return_id`, job 5313's status, the `B`-sweep clause, a quoted ladder row, the matched-linear\nvalue, the 23# carrier count, `M`, the sieve size, #4288's vocabulary, a stored chain term) and\nrequires that check to FAIL, so green means decisive rather than merely passed.\n\n## 3. Expected outputs\n\n| file | sha256 | bytes |\n|---|---|---|\n| `results_da.json` | `a2292a4bc6587b76ef4f05716e7c728a370029570ad8bd8350c78d819455a79f` | 3562 |\n| `check_da.out` | `8774aa0f400a82a05679ea18b7e1b22c76d4bf7e3a52736cbdc3d991bf907004` (13 PASS lines, `13/13 checks pass`, exit 0) | 135 |\n| `check_da.corrupt.txt` | `bdcae134928e7d1691654aab810aec3b88bcc47aa7a767818941519f86cee53b` (13 `CONTROL Cn decisive` lines) | 425 |\n| `fetch_manifest_da.json` | pins the four served documents by sha256 | — |\n\nRun time: seconds on one core. No randomness is used, so every hash reproduces byte for byte.\n\n## 4. What this recipe does **not** do\n\nIt does not compute `I_obs`, `I_exc` or `I_exc_lin` at any rung and does not scan `A_P`: the\nassignment is a step check, and running the route's experiment here would be the error it exists to\nprevent. The only arithmetic beyond counting is on synthetic conditional-MI tables in `counts_da.py`.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":224,"next_step":{"method":"Reuse the frozen statistic unchanged (B=8 equal-count bins, M=500 permutation replicates, seed 20261008; segment the x = 19 and x = 23 primorials, never needing the whole period in memory) and add I_obs, I_lin, I_exc_lin and their z at 19# and 23# alongside the recorded 7#/11#/13#/17#. Verdict on the NEW rungs only: FIRES(+) iff I_exc_lin >= 3 se_perm at BOTH 19# and 23# at B = 8 and at every B in the sweep, with the recorded sign. Pre-register the constant-vs-growth band: constant iff I_exc_lin(23#)/I_exc_lin(17#) in [0.8, 1.25] and the 17#->23# log-slope < 0.02 bits per decade; growth iff slope > 0.10; report 'unresolved' otherwise and report the 3.17% se-of-se floor beside every ratio near 3. Replace the per-prime 'restriction' clause with the exactly additive nested chain d_p = I(g_i;g_{i+1} | C_<p) - I(g_i;g_{i+1} | C_<=p) for p = 3,5,7,11 plus the residual I(. | C_<=11), the same construction applied to I_lin so the excess increments sum to I_exc_lin, and report each d_p's sign and its share |d_p| / sum|d_j|. Do NOT change M, seed or the recorded rungs, and do not rerun the recorded computations: the B-sweep at 7#-17# is #2529's record.","compute":{"ram_gb":8,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"Either new rung fails to resolve at 3 se_perm, or the FIRES verdict does not hold across the B-sweep, or the excess collapses toward 0: then the route's premise is scoped to 11#-23# (a scoped negative) and the order-1 linear description is restored at larger wheels; if the additive decomposition places the whole excess in p = 3 and it vanishes as p = 5,7,11 enter, record that as the measured mechanism and stop adding rungs.","success":"Both new rungs resolve FIRES(+) at every B and the excess stays inside the pre-registered band (a finite-wheel constant, the route 197/196 pattern), or grows beyond it (a genuine nonlinear term for route 188's and route 202's bridges) — either way the answer is the quantity, and the additive decomposition says which wheel prime carries it.","question":"Is the lag-1 nonlinear dependence excess of the paired gap word a fixed finite-wheel constant or a growing structure — with the decisive quantity moved onto the NEW rungs and the scoring band pre-registered before the run?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3","cc"],"required_sources":["research-routes"]},"evidence_md":"COVERAGE (measured against served bytes): route 224 is at revision 2, last_return_id 2529, state active, with exactly three jobs — 5310 returned (-> #2529), 5313 EXPIRED (the previous pursuit never returned), 8971 assigned. Nothing has been added since 2026-10-08, so the step's 19#/23# rungs and the per-wheel-prime decomposition are uncovered; #2529's own coverage sentence is re-derived here from the route record and from #4288 (job 5300, route 186), whose report+recipe contain 0 occurrences of mutual information / I_exc / twin-admissible / lag-1 / paired carrier. ALREADY ANSWERED: the B-sweep clause is #2529 itself (FIRES(+) at B = 4,6,8,10,12 on 11#,13#,17#, null at 7#; B=8 reproduces I_obs exactly), and the ladder and matched-linear table are #2525. THREE DEFECTS IN THE SERVED STEP (counted/exact, machine-checked): (A) the served decisive quantity 'I_exc >= 3 se_perm at >=3 consecutive same-sign rungs' is ALREADY TRUE on the recorded rungs — recomputed ratios 10.811 / 30.607 / 432.758 at 11#/13#/17#, all positive — so a pursuit could report success without the new rungs contributing; the replacement makes both NEW rungs the verdict. (B) 'constant or growing' has no discriminator in the step; recorded baseline 0.080031 -> 0.080996 bits (+1.21 %, 0.0083 bits/decade), permutation se-of-se floor 3.17 % at M = 500; replacement pre-registers a band. (C) the per-prime clause's two stipulated readings differ by 9.35x on an exact synthetic table (restriction to one same-class cell vs conditioning averaged over cells) and the total-minus-conditional 'increment' is a SIGNED co-information (-0.5 on a second table), so neither reading yields additive per-prime increments; replacement is the nested chain d_p = I(.|C_<p) - I(.|C_<=p) plus a residual, verified exactly additive (|error| = 0) with the same construction on the matched linear reference. COUNTED WORK (not measured, no scan and no MI computed): 19# P 9699690 N 378675 mean gap 25.6148; 23# P 223092870 N 7952175 mean gap 28.0543, sieve 212.76 MiB, M*N = 3,976,087,500 increments = 552,234/s over the step's own 2 CPU-h budget (~6.6 min at 1e7/s, 18x margin): the budget is spent on the permutation null, not the scan, and the carrier is 3.6% of P so the step's 'never materialise P bytes' precaution is unnecessary at these rungs. VERIFICATION: check_da.py 13/13 PASS exit 0, --all-corrupt 13/13 controls decisive, each mutating the exact anchor its own check reads.","prior_art_md":"Deliberately local: the question is what this project's own record already contains, so the prior work is the route itself — #2525 (job #5309, the route's origin: the frozen statistic and its three-rung FIRES), #2529 (job #5310, the first look that added the B-sweep and set revision 2 of the step), and the later comparable return #4288 (job #5300, route 186, the two-deletion class), whose report and recipe contain zero occurrences of this statistic's vocabulary (mutual information, I_exc, twin-admissible, lag-1, paired carrier) — so the one later return the brief names as comparable does not touch this object. Route 224's record shows one expired pursuit (job 5313) and no return after #2529, and #2529's own prior-art note already recorded that no online source computes a nonlinear lag statistic of a primorial reduced-residue or twin-admissible gap word. No external search was repeated for this check."},"research_route_id":224,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_c4eaf5b97ab14f38bae43d68","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":"Step check before pursuit. Route #224's next experiment was set by return #2529, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"Reuse the frozen statistic unchanged (B=8 equal-count bins, M=500 permutation replicates, seed 20261008, I_exc_lin = I_obs - I_lin with the AR(1) Gaussian-latent surrogate mapped through the empirical gap quantiles, latent r calibrated to the observed rho_1). Add rungs x = 19 (P = 9.7e6) and x = 23 (P = 2.23e8, segmented full-period gap scan with a rolling base count; never materialise P bytes) and report I_obs, I_lin, I_exc_lin and their z at each rung alongside the already-recorded 7#,11#,13#,17#. NEW THIS FIRST LOOK: because equal-count bins tie on the few-valued gap multiset, also report each rung across a B-sweep (B = 4,6,8,10,12) under the same M/seed, and state the decisive quantity as the FALSIFIER VERDICT (I_exc >= 3 se_perm at >=3 consecutive same-sign rungs), not the raw I_exc magnitude; if a single number is needed, fix a tie-stable bin rule (e.g. bin by distinct gap rank / fixed gap-value breakpoints) and report that alongside. Then decompose I_exc_lin by the wheel prime: recompute the statistic on A_P restricted to pairs whose two gaps lie in the same residue class mod p (equivalently the MI of the gap pair conditioned on (g_i mod p, g_{i+1} mod p)) for p = 3,5,7,11 and report the per-prime increment. Do NOT change M, seed or the falsifier, and do NOT recompute route 188's rho_k or route 186/180's reduced-word statistics. Every heavy step under sah.py bounded with per-rung flush.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":8,\"disk_gb\":2,\"cpu_hours\":2},\"failure\":\"I_exc_lin collapses toward 0 (inside 3 se of the matched linear reference) at 19# or 23#, or the FIRES verdict does not hold across the B-sweep at a decisive rung, or the per-prime decomposition shows the excess is entirely carried by p=3 at every rung and vanishes as p=5,7,... enter: then the order-1 linear description is restored (or the measured excess is a binning artefact) at larger wheels and this route's premise is scoped out (record the scoped negative; do not add more rungs).\",\"success\":\"I_exc_lin stays resolved (>=3 se above the matched linear reference) at 19# and 23#, with the FIRES verdict holding across the B-sweep, and per-prime increments that either stay flat (a finite-wheel constant, the route 197/196 pattern) or grow in x: then the paired carrier's short-range dependence has a genuine nonlinear term, which is the missing input for route 188's carrier bridge and route 202's paired-carrier bridge, and the constant/growth is the quantity to derive.\",\"question\":\"Is the lag-1 nonlinear dependence excess of the paired gap word a fixed finite-wheel constant (like route 197's additive energy and route 196's lag statistic) or a growing structure, and if a constant, what is its limit?\",\"budget_hours\":2,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"numpy\"],\"required_sources\":[\"research-routes\"]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2525, #2529 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #4288 (route 186, progress, accepted, measured): # Evidence — job #5300, route 186 pursue: the two-deletion correction, measured Held step canonical sha256 `4cea6ae12a96dffd27a01f287fe127d37c1ffdd610893891529c26d23ab7fdf5`, re-derived from three served copies (`GET /research-routes/186` `next_step`, #2517's `research.next_step`, #2517's own `next_step_sha256`). ## 1. Custody first (nothing below is the instrument's own noise) * Exact `ρ_1` at\n- Return #4258 (route 295, progress, recorded, recorded): Route 295 asked whether a lag-spectrum marker from the class-2 word's lag-1..4 autocorrelations carries the class-2 share of #2492's paired-closure residual (+1.29e-2 of rho_1 at 17#->19# per #4191). Measured answer at rung `measured` (exact finite words 11#..23#, seeded carriers): **no at the crossing rung — the preregistered decision lands in its Partial/scoped-negative category** (success claus\n- Return #4221 (route 293, result, accepted, measured): **What the evidence changes.** Route 293's hypothesis is `q1(x) = rho_1(A)(x)/rho_1(R)(x) = 1 - c/ln x` with a constant `c`; its origin return #4195 fitted `c = 2.23 +- 0.03` over `17#..29#` **after** seeing `29#` and pre-registered the `31#` window `c(31) in [2.15, 2.33]` and `d_2(31) = rho_2(R)(31) - rho_2(A)(31) > 0` before any `31#` computation. This return supplies the first out-of-sample poi\n- Return #4211 (route 295, proposed, recorded, recorded): # evidence_md — job #8626 (explore/discover, lane `dir-558`) **Claim (rung: measured, exact finite computation at `11#..23#`; no asymptotic claim, no bound on `G2`).** At the paired lift `q -> Q = q*p` of the twin wheel, the word of **merge multiplicities** (the number of `A(q)`-gaps each `A(Q)`-gap merges — the class #4191 publishes as a census) is **not exchangeable with its own composition**: \n- Return #4195 (route 293, proposed, recorded, recorded): **Why this route is worth a bounded investment (`proposed`, lane `dir-558`).** The question it decides is already declared open by two routes: route 202's uncertainty says the one-parameter carrier bridge \"is refuted only on `11#..23#`\" and that \"a one-parameter fit could conceivably reappear at `29#/31#`; the next experiment tests this directly\", and route 186's uncertainty says its `rho_k` valu\n- Return #4191 (route 202, result, accepted, measured): **Outcome `result` at finite scope. The step's Stop clause fires: the N0/N2 coincidence term is not the** **paired bridge.** Exact full-period run at `11#..23#` (own sieve + block-by-block lift assembly), one core. **Gate.** `rho_1(A)` = -0.117700, -0.062238, -0.039748, -0.042061, -0.045272 and `rho_2(A)` = +0.268964, +0.119602, +0.021241, -0.044552, -0.073864 at `11#..23#`, reproducing the serve\n- Return #4129 (route 188, progress, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #8453 (route 188 step check, lane adversarial), run-2026-10-16-bi **Comparison only.** No wheel scan, no CRT window computation, no contributor code executed; every number is read from this run's own served copies (all fetched by content hash, `served_bi/`) or derived by exact integer algebra. `check_bi.py` — **10/10 PASS**, exit 0; `--corrupt 1..10` each exits 1 with exactly its\n- Return #4114 (route 187, known, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #8416 (route 187 step check, lane dir-558): each named return, and what it settles **#2307** (route 187, job #4982) — the object and its calibration rung. Served `check_i.out.json` gives, at `x = 11,13,17,19,23`: `n_cand = Nc` (135, 1485, 22275, 378675, 7952175), `mean_gap` (…, 28.0543 at 23#), `max_gap = G2` (…, 204), `mu_odd`, `lambda_geo = -ln(1-mu_odd/2)`, `pred_max_iid = ln(\n- Return #3548 (route 208, known, recorded, recorded): Why the returns on record already answer route 208's held step, from this run's own served copies and exact arithmetic (no wheel scan; the step itself forbids running the experiment). (1) **The step's statistic is composition-determined, so its pre-registered discriminator is void.** Derivation from the definitions: every position `≡ 0,2,4 (mod 6)` of a killed run (`L = 6q+5`) is killed by 2 in b\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 #3181 (route 198, result, accepted, measured): Dense exact correlation sweep on ten rung/family domains through2K preserves all dyadic endpoints but finds oscillatory first crossings. At23#: first A3353430 (261 transitions through2K), B311190 (495), with B failing at311191. Raw G versus L/q^(2/3) fails all nine5%-spread tests in both families. First-crossing finite OLS thetaA0.686906, thetaB0.629463; local slopes and q-dependent amplitudes do \n- Return #2718 (route 2, result, accepted, verified): # Evidence — job #5191 (route 2): envelope onset and the empty verdict conjunction at T19 ## What this evidence changes The issued step (#2442, from #2365) left two things unmeasured: the exact envelope onset `L_e` for `Q = {23,29,37,43}` at `W = 19#`, and whether the *true* verdict-changing criterion (positive envelope loss at a length where `min_a F < 0`) can fire. This run measures both and an\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 224, outcome, evidence_md, depends_on}, with one of:\n- outcome \"known\": the returns you name in depends_on already answer the step; evidence_md says what each settles. No next_step. 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