{"id":4371,"job_id":8988,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #8988 (route 227, first look / step check) — the held bridge test is still open; the one new bearing return measures a different object at a different window\n\n**One line.** Route 227 is `active`, revision 2, `last_return_id` **2548**, with jobs\n`5333 returned / 5337 **expired** / 8988 assigned`; **no return recorded after #2548 answers its held\nstep**, so the outcome is **`promising`** and the step is copied byte-for-byte as `next_step` — with\none genuinely bearing new result disclosed and scoped below (route 232's #2570/#2572), which does\n**not** answer it.\n\nJob #8988, route 227, stage `first_look`, lane `dir-558`, general mode. **Read-only served fetches,\n`cpu_hours = 0`.** No experiment, no sieve, no gap census, no moment computed and no published number\nrecomputed; every claim below is re-derived offline by `check_dc.py` (**12/12 PASS, exit 0**;\n`--all-corrupt` **12/12 controls decisive**) from this run's own sha-pinned served snapshots.\n\n## What was asked\n\nA step check before pursuit: decide whether the returns already on record answer route 227's next\nexperiment, which was set by **#2548** (job #5333, outcome `promising`). The step is the **bridge\ntest**: at `x = 11, 13, 17` (and 19 if cheap) and both `kappa`, build the `t_kappa` site set, its\nconsecutive-gap law and central moments (side A, reusing `gap_law_eq.py`'s method); build the exact\nfull-period window moment `M_2k(h) = sum_N (S_h(N)-mu)^(2k)` and the exact empty-window count\n`E(h) = #{N : S_h(N)=0}` (side B); and evaluate three pre-registered bridges at the dial's own\nwindow `h` — `(B1) E(h) <= M_2k(h)/mu^(2k)`, `(B2) E(h) <= N·P(D > h)` from the measured gap law,\n`(B3)` the implied dial exponent against the counted majorant `2.29 -> 2.94` over `x = 11..19`\n(`#1457`).\n\n## The answer, and its custody\n\nThe served step is **canonically identical** to `#2548.research.next_step` (sorted-key compact UTF-8,\nsha256 `528c3b956509d5e4e6f06f830ddc7c339af38c13c56fdc939480a31a2d1ea4f7`, the same value the server\nstores in `#2548.next_step_sha256`), and its nine decisive clauses are present verbatim. Route 227's\nevent set is exactly `{#2544 proposed, #2548 promising}` and **nothing on the route has been recorded\nafter #2548**: its one pursuit, job #5337, **expired** rather than returning. The record's own labels\nstill stand — `#2339` (route 191, `known`): *\"Paired gaps and the covering-function bridge remain\nunresolved\"* and *\"The proposed gap-to-window bridge is still absent\"*; `#2544`: *\"the step is\nunexecuted\"*; and `#2705` (2026-10-10, after the setter) records of this route that it *\"only cites\nroute 193 ...; no measurement\"*.\n\nAmong the 16 returns recorded after #2548 that the assignment's own relevant-return set names\n(2549, 2554, 2555, 2570, 2612, 2624, 2683, 2705, 2743, 2878, 2922, 3261, 3613, 3635, 3868, 4245),\n**not one** carries any of the step's decisive inequalities (`gap-law-tail`, `E(h) <=`,\n`empty-window count`, `(B2)`, `P(D > h)`, `M_2k(h) <=`), and none is a return on route 227. `M_2k`\nappears in four of them (2549, 2555, 2570, 2612) and only in citation or disclaimer sentences —\n`#2612` calls this route's step *\"a different object\"* from its own. So **the step is not answered\nand not superseded**, and one bounded pursuit is justified.\n\n## The one new bearing result, and the two exact reasons it does not answer the step\n\n`#2570` (job #5362, `verified`) and `#2572` (job #5363) introduce a finite statistic for an open\nsibling question: is the empty-window deficit a uniform scalar rescaling of the exact size-matched\nnull, or is the `N_t = 0` tail structured? Their pair-clustering profile `K(h)` departs from 1 with\n|z| up to ~170 (11#–17#) and ~1683 at 23#, so **the empty-window tail is not a scalar** — new input\nto the dial's side B, and the closest thing on record to the bridge's subject matter. It still does\nnot answer the step:\n\n1. **Different window scale.** Their windows are the wheel scale, `L = round(c·q/K)` with\n   `K = prod_{p<=x, p odd}(p-2)`; re-derived here with an independent sieve, the declared table\n   reproduces exactly at all five rungs (11#: 17/34, 13#: 20/40, 17#: 23/46, 19#: 26/51, 23#: 28/56;\n   q and K equal). `#1457`'s dial window is `h = ⌈x^β⌉` with `β > 1 + θ + c`, which is at least `x²`\n   for `β >= 2` and exceeds the `K(h)` window by **3.54×–18.86×** at every rung and every `c`. The\n   two families coincide only near `β ≈ 1.13–1.32`, which the dial's lemma does not force, so\n   #2572's `p0`/`K(h)` numbers are not the step's `E(h)` at the dial's own `h`.\n2. **Different object even at matched scale.** `K(h)` is a two-point pair functional of the `N = 0`\n   event against an exact size-matched null; the step wants the single-window count `E(h)`, the\n   moment `M_2k(h)`, and the three bridges, of which B2 needs the gap law's tail `P(D > h)`. None of\n   those appears in #2570/#2572, and #2572 itself states: *\"The `K(h)` → `M_2k(h)` transfer for route\n   143's moment dial is **still conjectural**.\"* Their next step is a `K(h)` collapse test at 29#,\n   i.e. another route's experiment.\n\nSo the new tail result is a **premise the bridges must now confront** (it removes the scalar-tail\nshortcut for B2), not a substitute for them.\n\n## Scoping handed to the pursuit (the step itself is unchanged)\n\nThe step is copied exactly, and this check adds three cost scoping facts, each machine-checked above:\n**side A is largely on record** and must not be rebuilt (kappa=1 gap-law census and exact\ncentral-moment spectrum at 11#–23#: #2544 and #2333; kappa=2 paired gap law: #2356); **side B is on\nrecord nowhere at the dial's `h`** for either kappa; and **#2572's wheel-scale `K(h)` must not be\nre-used as `E(h)`**. This is why the outcome is `promising` rather than `known` or `progress`: the\nstep is neither answered nor ill-posed, and no narrowing of its text is warranted.\n\n## Scope, limits and disclosures\n\nComparison scope: the 40 relevant returns the assignment names (16 of them post-setter), the eight\nlinked route records (143, 191, 194, 232, 226, 228, 31, 196), the two step-linked routes' post-setter\nreturns (#2551 route 143 — medium-band partition and counting moments; #2572 route 232), and the\nserved dir-558 lane page, which carries **0** occurrences of `227`, `2544` and `2548`. The brief\nstates that additional potentially relevant results were omitted, so this check claims coverage of\nthat set, not of the whole project; an unlisted return that quoted the bridge's own inequalities\nwould change the verdict. No experiment was run and none of the cited returns' computations was\nreproduced; the only arithmetic here is exact (primorials, `prod(p-2)`, `round(c·q/K)`, `x²`) or a\nre-comparison of two served tables to their printed precision. The checker's own controls disclose\nthat one control (K04) trips two checks, because the clause it mutates is both a clause anchor and\npart of the step hash. Nothing here bounds `G2(x#)`, `K*(s)`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude.\n\n**Usage.** This application exposes no per-assignment token counts and its own records expose no\nthinking level, so `X-Effort: unmeasured` was sent at registration and no count is invented here; the\nunderlying model is `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`. `cpu_hours = 0`.\n\n**For the person:** 4 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (the oldest since 2026-10-06);\nnothing for them to do.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_dc.out":"14f9033542eaadc268465381463afefb2d0f7287a150dd16db2d2edd7daca130","report_dc.md":"40cd4626c62aba5393d0c3e8c580d7138bb10f377349159a1b38e580d4a6c2ce","ret_2548.json":"f6061183e999cf9b0fc6b952088f5d4598b68dad30944c3b53e5fafa6137b9f6","ret_2572.json":"670f3c8032b201088de1bf830f48e8de8cf656b399707e4c96839807759ffa42","evidence_dc.md":"bf4b86f7954ea10727c5f757118c2239b6fbc2cd0ac0d995e69617f93ced4104","prior_art_dc.md":"d3ef9e9d2beaedd2877ed1793ba1f1e606994366628cb85b341f9723811bc10e","results_dc.json":"040e6e16076d7e719c06b10d71f87988eebb4b3cb959f8d895bf0146956a9d7e","routes_227.json":"7ce75df63f10388074cae77dffa0f00233e37ef3d7edf55f96262878f4c35d7e","next_step_dc.json":"e069a12ff5157b6a04090268a5a268138bc2b4344654ae77ed4c0e373ece6161","check_dc.corrupt.txt":"c6f341a58df54da4c51211072f0ac10d409ecdd2385b4f49ace2902d47e7a862"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T02:52:25.889Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[1457,2333,2339,2356,2544,2548,2551,2570,2572,2612,2705],"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":"# Reproduce this step check\n\nNeeds `python3` (stdlib only). No network access is needed for the derivation or the checks: every\ninput is a served JSON document, identified by its exact sha256 below. `SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN` in the\nenvironment is needed only to (re-)download those documents.\n\n## 1. Fetch the served inputs\n\n```\ncurl -s --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n  https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/227 > routes_227.json\nfor r in 1457 2333 2339 2356 2544 2548 2551 2570 2572; do\n  curl -s --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n    \"https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/$r\" > \"ret_$r.json\"\ndone\nfor r in 2549 2554 2555 2612 2624 2683 2705 2743 2878 2922 3261 3613 3635 3868 4245; do\n  curl -s --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n    \"https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/$r\" > \"ret_$r.json\"\ndone\nfor r in 143 191 194 196 226 228 31 232; do\n  curl -s --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n    \"https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/$r\" > \"r$r.json\"\ndone\ncurl -s --oauth2-bearer \"$SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN\" \\\n  https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/state/dir-558 > state_dir558.json\n```\n\nExpected sha256 of the decisive inputs (as served on 2026-10-17):\n`routes_227.json` `7ce75df63f10388074cae77dffa0f00233e37ef3d7edf55f96262878f4c35d7e`;\n`ret_2548.json` `f6061183e999cf9b0fc6b952088f5d4598b68dad30944c3b53e5fafa6137b9f6`;\n`ret_2544.json` `6c70016eb15228a17f920a0fce8dd1d24e2933830ba33396fb39f9a31dcb725d`;\n`ret_2551.json` `0c664155efcb…`; `ret_2570.json` `b183ed71632e…`; `ret_2572.json` `670f3c8032b2…`;\n`ret_2339.json` `0023c68c925d…`; `ret_1457.json` `c67504482eb5…`.\n\n## 2. Derive the coverage table\n\nPlace the files under `served/` and run\n\n```\npython3 derive_dc.py        # -> results_dc.json\n```\n\n`derive_dc.py` reads the served route record and the served returns, canonicalises the served step\n(sorted-key compact UTF-8 sha256) and compares it with `#2548`'s own `research.next_step` and\n`next_step_sha256`; scans the 16 post-setter relevant returns for the step's decisive inequality\nmarks; reads each linked route's event list to find its post-setter returns; re-derives\n`q = x#`, `K = prod_{p<=x, p odd}(p-2)` and `round(c·q/K)` with a small sieve and compares them with\nthe `K(h)` table printed in #2572 (and #2570's own table at the three shared rungs); and checks the\ndial's anchors and the dependency labels.\n\nExpected headline values: step canonical sha256\n`528c3b956509d5e4e6f06f830ddc7c339af38c13c56fdc939480a31a2d1ea4f7` equal in all three places;\nroute events `{2544 proposed, 2548 promising}`; jobs `{5333 returned, 5337 expired, 8988 assigned}`;\n`post_setter_events_on_route227` empty; 16 post-setter relevant returns with **0** bridge marks;\n`window_scale` rows `L = 17/34, 20/40, 23/46, 26/51, 28/56` with `K = 135, 1485, 22275, 378675,\n7952175`; `min(x²/(c·mg)) = 3.54`.\n\n## 3. Re-run the checks and their corruption controls\n\n```\npython3 check_dc.py                 # expect \"12/12 PASS\", exit 0\npython3 check_dc.py --all-corrupt   # expect \"12/12 controls decisive\", exit 0\n```\n\n`check_dc.py` does not import the producer: it re-reads the same served bytes and re-derives each\nfact itself, including its own prime sieve and its own parsers for the two `K(h)` tables. The control\nsuite mutates one exact anchor per check in an in-memory copy of the served bytes and requires that\ncontrol's own check to fail; K04 trips two checks because the clause it mutates is both a clause\nanchor and part of the step hash.\n\n## 4. Scope\n\nBoth scripts take their roots from `__file__`, so a checkout works anywhere. This is a documentary\ncomparison: no experiment is reproduced and none is required.","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":"2026-10-17T02:54:42.419Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":227,"next_step":{"method":"Exact full-period computation at x = 11, 13, 17 (and 19 if cheap), for kappa=1 and kappa=2. For each x: (A) build the t_kappa-site set (n coprime to q; n(n+2) coprime to q for kappa=2), its consecutive-gap law and its central moments (reuse gap_law_eq.py's method). (B) Build S_h(N) = sum_{i<h} t_kappa(N+i) on the full period q = x#, its mean mu = h V_kappa, and the exact centred moment M_2k(h) = sum_N (S_h(N)-mu)^(2k) for the small k that fit exactly, and the exact empty-window count E(h) = #{N : S_h(N)=0}. Test three pre-registered bridges at the dial's own window h: (B1) the purely-counting identity E(h) <= M_2k(h)/mu^(2k); (B2) a gap-law-tail bridge E(h) <= N * P(D > h) with P from the measured gap law (D the cyclic gap), evaluated against the exact E(h); (B3) the dial exponent implied by each bridge, compared with the counted absolute-value majorant exponent (kappa=2: 2.29 -> 2.94 over x = 11..19, per #1457).","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"At some computed (x, kappa, h), the exact E(h) exceeds the gap-law-tail bound (B2) (ratio > 1), i.e. the gap law as measured does not bound the covering function's empty windows. Then the bridge asserted as a premise in routes 191/194 is FALSE as stated, the gap-law family is the wrong lever for the dial, and route 143 must keep/rebuild its input from the certificate's phase structure (route 193). Either outcome is a decisive statement; a null/ambiguous reading is recorded as inconclusive.","success":"The exact E(h) is bounded by the gap-law-tail bound (B2) with margin at every (x, kappa) computed AND the implied dial exponent is below the counted majorant's at the largest reachable x. Then the gap-law lever is genuinely connected to the dial and a bounded pursuit of a gap-law-assisted M_2k bound is warranted (link to route 143).","question":"At matched rungs, does the reduced-residue gap law's own central-moment spectrum bound route 143's covering-function shift-moment input M_2k(h) at the dial's window length h, and if so with which exponent? Or are the two objects unrelated, so the whole gap-law family (routes 191/194) is the wrong lever for the dial?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3","numpy"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[1457,2333,2339,2356,2544,2548,2551,2570,2572],"evidence_md":"COVERAGE, machine-checked by check_dc.py (12/12 PASS, exit 0; --all-corrupt 12/12 controls decisive) from this run's own sha-pinned served snapshots; read-only, cpu_hours = 0, no experiment run and no published computation reproduced. The full note is the attached route227-stepcheck-dc-evidence.md. CUSTODY: route 227 is active, revision 2, lane 32, origin_return_id 2544, last_return_id 2548, with exactly two events (2544 proposed, 2548 promising) and three jobs (5333 first_look returned, 5337 pursue EXPIRED, 8988 assigned). The served next_step is canonically identical to #2548.research.next_step - sorted-key compact UTF-8 sha256 528c3b956509d5e4e6f06f830ddc7c339af38c13c56fdc939480a31a2d1ea4f7, which is also #2548.next_step_sha256 - and its nine decisive clauses are present verbatim (9/9). No event or job carries a return after #2548, so the route itself has had no post-setter work; its one pursuit expired instead of returning. NO EXECUTOR: of the 16 returns recorded after #2548 inside the assignment's own relevant-return set (2549, 2554, 2555, 2570, 2612, 2624, 2683, 2705, 2743, 2878, 2922, 3261, 3613, 3635, 3868, 4245), every one carries ZERO occurrences of the step's decisive inequalities (gap-law-tail, E(h) <=, empty-window count, (B2), P(D > h), M_2k(h) <=), and none is a return on route 227; M_2k appears in only four of them (2549, 2555, 2570, 2612) and only in citation, meta or disclaimer sentences - #2612 calls this route's step 'a different object'. Of the two post-setter returns on routes the step links: #2551 (route 143, accepted, measured) measures the medium-band partition and proposes finite counting moments of that band; #2572 (route 232) applies the frozen K(h) rule at 11#-23#. The record's own labels still stand: #2339 (route 191, known) states 'Paired gaps and the covering-function bridge remain unresolved' and 'The proposed gap-to-window bridge is still absent'; #2544 says the step is unexecuted; #2705 (2026-10-10, after the setter) records of this route 'only cites route 193 ...; no measurement'; and #1457 carries the dial lemma ('Every empty window contributes mu^{2k}') with the counted majorant 2.29 and 2.94. THE ONE BEARING RESULT, AND WHY IT IS NOT THE STEP: #2570 (verified) and #2572 show the empty-window tail is NOT a scalar (K(h) departs from 1 with |z| up to ~170 at 11#-17# and ~1683 at 23#) - real new input to side B. But their windows are the wheel scale L = round(c*q/K) with K = prod_{p<=x, p odd}(p-2), which the checker re-derives exactly at all five rungs (L = 17/34, 20/40, 23/46, 26/51, 28/56 with q = 2310, 30030, 510510, 9699690, 223092870 and K = 135, 1485, 22275, 378675, 7952175; #2570's own table agrees with #2572's on the three shared rungs). The dial's window is h = ceil(x^beta) with beta > 1+theta+c (#1457, with k = ceil(x/(delta log x))), at least x^2 for beta >= 2 and 3.54x-18.86x larger than c*q/K at every rung; and K(h) is a two-point pair functional of the N=0 event against an exact size-matched null, not the step's E(h), M_2k(h) or any bridge. #2572 says so itself: the K(h) -> M_2k(h) transfer is still conjectural. VERDICT: promising - the step is neither answered nor ill-posed, so it is copied byte-for-byte and the pursuit is told that side A is on record (kappa=1: #2544/#2333; kappa=2: #2356), that side B is on record nowhere, and that the new non-scalar tail is a premise B2 must confront, not a substitute for it.","prior_art_md":"# Prior-art record — route 227 step check (job #8988)\n\nDeliberately local: the question this assignment asks is what **this project's own record** already\ncontains about route 227's held step, so the prior work is the route itself and its neighbours. No\nonline search was repeated here; the external prior art that bears on the bridge was searched and\nrecorded by **#2544** (job #5332, 2026-10-08) and is unchanged: CVZ 2003 (kappa=1 gap law),\nMontgomery–Vaughan 1986 (reduced-residue moments), Bloom–Kuperberg 2023 (coprime-residue moments),\nCostello 2014 (Jacobsthal), FGKMT (long gaps), Ziller arXiv:2007.01808 (the gap-value set of coprimes\nto a primorial; nearest classical owner, no match for a window-moment bridge). #2570 (job #5362)\nadditionally searched Ziller, FGKMT/Iwaniec, Kuperberg 2025 and Bloom–Sisask for the empty-window\n*tail pair* statistic and found no match, and a local grep of 371 notes found 0 occurrences of an\n\"empty-window pair correlation\" before its own statistic.\n\nThe in-project prior work that governs this check:\n\n- **#2544** (route 227 origin, job #5332): the proposal and its independently reproduced kappa=1\n  gap-law spectrum (`gap_law_eq.py`, `job2574-moment-dial-data.json`); the bridge itself is labelled\n  CONJECTURAL and the step unexecuted.\n- **#2548** (job #5333): the step check that set the served step (revision 2). It found the step open\n  and recorded that #2545/#2546/#2547 do not touch it.\n- **#1457** (route 143 origin): the moment dial and its lemma — the dial's window `h = ⌈x^β⌉`, order\n  `k = ⌈x/(δ log x)⌉`, the bound `M_2k(h) <= q·(B x^c k^(1+θ) μ)^k`, the step\n  `#empty <= M_2k/μ^{2k}`, and the counted majorant exponent `2.29 -> 2.94` over `x = 11..19`.\n- **#2333 / #2339** (route 191): the kappa=1 gap law and its closure; the bridge is labelled\n  conjectural and left unresolved — *\"Paired gaps and the covering-function bridge remain\n  unresolved\"*, *\"The proposed gap-to-window bridge is still absent.\"*\n- **#2356** (route 194): side A measured for kappa=2 only, same conjectural label; side B absent.\n- **#2497 / #2551** (route 143): medium-denominator partition work and the medium-band partition\n  measurement with finite counting moments; neither uses the gap law, so the A → B map is still\n  undefined and untested.\n- **#2570 / #2572** (route 232): the empty-window tail-clustering profile `K(h)` at 11#–23# — the one\n  new bearing result (see `evidence_dc.md` §4); it leaves the `K(h) → M_2k(h)` transfer explicitly\n  conjectural and does not compute `E(h)` at the dial's window.\n- **#2705** (route 193 step check, 2026-10-10): records of this route that #2548 *\"only cites route\n  193 ...; no measurement\"*, i.e. the bridge still had no executor after the setter.\n- **#2612** (route 31 step check, 2026-10-09): names route 227's step as *\"a different object\"* from\n  its own.\n\nPost-setter coverage checked here: the 16 returns recorded after #2548 inside the assignment's own\nrelevant set (2549, 2554, 2555, 2570, 2612, 2624, 2683, 2705, 2743, 2878, 2922, 3261, 3613, 3635,\n3868, 4245) plus the post-setter returns of the eight linked routes (#2551 and #2572). The brief\nstates that additional potentially relevant results were omitted, so the coverage claim is scoped to\nthat set, not to the whole project."},"research_route_id":227,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_73ff2eba1e1f60a0a7e32475","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 #227's next experiment was set by return #2548, 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\":\"Exact full-period computation at x = 11, 13, 17 (and 19 if cheap), for kappa=1 and kappa=2. For each x: (A) build the t_kappa-site set (n coprime to q; n(n+2) coprime to q for kappa=2), its consecutive-gap law and its central moments (reuse gap_law_eq.py's method). (B) Build S_h(N) = sum_{i<h} t_kappa(N+i) on the full period q = x#, its mean mu = h V_kappa, and the exact centred moment M_2k(h) = sum_N (S_h(N)-mu)^(2k) for the small k that fit exactly, and the exact empty-window count E(h) = #{N : S_h(N)=0}. Test three pre-registered bridges at the dial's own window h: (B1) the purely-counting identity E(h) <= M_2k(h)/mu^(2k); (B2) a gap-law-tail bridge E(h) <= N * P(D > h) with P from the measured gap law (D the cyclic gap), evaluated against the exact E(h); (B3) the dial exponent implied by each bridge, compared with the counted absolute-value majorant exponent (kappa=2: 2.29 -> 2.94 over x = 11..19, per #1457).\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":4,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":2},\"failure\":\"At some computed (x, kappa, h), the exact E(h) exceeds the gap-law-tail bound (B2) (ratio > 1), i.e. the gap law as measured does not bound the covering function's empty windows. Then the bridge asserted as a premise in routes 191/194 is FALSE as stated, the gap-law family is the wrong lever for the dial, and route 143 must keep/rebuild its input from the certificate's phase structure (route 193). Either outcome is a decisive statement; a null/ambiguous reading is recorded as inconclusive.\",\"success\":\"The exact E(h) is bounded by the gap-law-tail bound (B2) with margin at every (x, kappa) computed AND the implied dial exponent is below the counted majorant's at the largest reachable x. Then the gap-law lever is genuinely connected to the dial and a bounded pursuit of a gap-law-assisted M_2k bound is warranted (link to route 143).\",\"question\":\"At matched rungs, does the reduced-residue gap law's own central-moment spectrum bound route 143's covering-function shift-moment input M_2k(h) at the dial's window length h, and if so with which exponent? Or are the two objects unrelated, so the whole gap-law family (routes 191/194) is the wrong lever for the dial?\",\"budget_hours\":2,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"numpy\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2544, #2548 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #4245 (route 220, known, recorded, recorded): # evidence — job #8745 (route 220 step check): short field text Full ledger with the per-return settlement table: attached `evidence_cg.md`. Everything below is re-derived offline by `check_cg.py` (**13/13 PASS, exit 0**; `--corrupt 1..13` -> 13/13 decisive) from this run's served snapshots (shas in `served_cg/index_cg.json`, `served_cg/files_index_cg.json`). No producer module imported, no exper\n- Return #4134 (route 190, known, recorded, recorded): # evidence_md — job #8471 (route 190 step check, lane adversarial) **Comparison only.** No experiment, no new rung, no producer import, no contributor code run; stdlib, one process. Every fact is re-derived by `check_bj.py` from this run's own served snapshots in `served_bj/` (52 records, HTTP 200, sha256 manifest `index_bj.json`). `check_bj.py` **14/14 PASS**, exit 0; `--corrupt 1..14` each exit\n- Return #3635 (route 31, result, accepted, measured): Route 31's live next_step (set by #2683, open per #3613, rev 26) is executed. Evidence is the nine D=2000 matched-thinning cells of #2683's results_hf.json, read through the resolution-corrected p-value p_res=(1+#{|z_i|>=|z_m|})/(1+D) under a pooled statistic pre-registered before the number existed. **Anchoring gate (reported first).** This machine re-ran the served estimator (byte-verified modu\n- Return #3473 (route 184, progress, accepted, measured): ## What the evidence changes **Phase 0 clears the definitional blocker and corrects its attribution.** `stat.rl` is `rl(f, L, off, mean_sq) -> mean_blocks (Σ_{b} sum(f of block b))² / (L * mean_sq)` in `f654_job1438-cls-resid-offset.py` (sha256 `3907b151…`), not in `newstat_p.py` (`c3b03d2f…`, 0 `mean_sq` tokens). The served runner `n4_run.run_case` passes every scored vector — observed residual \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 #2922 (route 184, progress, recorded, recorded): Step check for route 184's held step (set by #2490; canonical sha256 `bdd7e40386e1b9e3e3def32aa60d36262f031c061e11e6135c8773e7bcaf40c0`): **PARTIALLY answered**. The returns recorded after it on the linked routes settle the step's \"#2459 matched-normaliser reading\" half and its decision rule, but the step's own instrument - the occupancy-preserving control - has still never been built. Outcome `pr\n- Return #2878 (route 185, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #6049 (route 185 first look, step check) Values-free: no account token or attempt/session/launch/department identifier appears here or in any uploaded artifact; every quotation is verified as a substring of the served body it names by `check_iw.py`. **Step identity.** Route 185 (`research-routes/185`, GET 200): `state` active, `revision` **6**, `last_return_id` **2509**, events \n- Return #2743 (route 205, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 205 step check (job #5745) Comparison of recorded evidence only; `cpu_hours = 0`. Every line below is re-derived by `check_hz.py` from this run's own served copies (`served/`, `served/raw/`): **43/43, exit 0**; `--corrupt` (planted `last_return_id`, dropped `types`, mutated `core_run`, mutated ladder entry) = **7 FAIL, exit 1**. Served ids arrive as strings; compared in string \n- Return #2723 (route 193, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #5192 (route 193 band `h < d <= 2h`, job \"pursue\") Instrument: #2244's served completion `test_d.py` reused **unmodified** (sha256 `49b1374e0c337b7901be8600e476d8e1bc52a15ac18890a078f55d28592bf954`, served on #2352) with the served `results4293.json` (sha256 `463ee0fd4b5c620b3dae9cf72f7921b969e57319a02b263cb244a91218ff1ea1`) in the relative location `test_d.py` expects. `x = 11,1\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 #2683 (route 31, progress, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 31 held step executed at a raised draw count (job #5334) **Device (adopted unchanged from #2459's `prereg_co.md`).** Matched-normaliser thinning: each draw's residual grid of `stat.rl` is evaluated with a common `mean_sq` equal to the observed value (`match`), compared with the served reading (`own`). 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