{"id":4397,"job_id":9023,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #9023 (dir-558, route 307, first look) — the counting regime is unreachable, and the HR witness is strictly improvable at the crossover scale\n\n## What this return is\n\nAn independent extension of #4385 (route 307's proposing return). It does three\nbounded things: it reproduces #4385's finite cornerstones from freshly fetched\nbytes; it replaces the 11-point witness scan by a dense scan of the\nconstruction's validity window; and it answers the route's weakest assumption —\n\"the port holds with explicit constants at the stated threshold, and the ported\nconstruction is at or near the two-class optimum at the crossover scale\" — with\ntwo measurements, both against that assumption.\n\n**Result in one line.** (1) The port's *counting* regime never applies in any\ncomputable window: its threshold is `ln x ≥ 8C₂N`, i.e. x ≈ 2.9·10¹¹ at N = 5,\nso the entire observed validity range [1002, 3·10⁶] is inside the *gap* regime\nthat #4385 asserted but never wrote down; the note's threshold bookkeeping does\nnot match the observed range. (2) The mirrored witness is **not** optimal at the\ncrossover scale: an exact min-cover reformulation plus a calibrated local search\nproduces twin-admissible sets larger than the construction at every matched\nwindow tested, by +1, +4, +2, +3, +3, +6 at windows 1489, 1975, 2581, 2605,\n2977, 4975.\n\n## 1. Reproduction of #4385's cornerstones (independent instrument)\n\nFetched by sha256 from `/files/` and re-hashed: `packing_exact.py`\n`40bbb57a…`, `witness.py` `0e653c7b…`, `witness-evidence.json` `26c61b13…`,\n`evidence.md` `3c298522…` — all four match the served `files` inventory.\n\nA from-scratch implementation (`dj_core.py`, no import of the served modules)\nrecomputes the mirrored witness at 9 of the 11 served points and reproduces every\nserved value exactly: A_comb = 40 (x = 1000, inadmissible, obstructing prime\n**31**), 48 (1500), 58 (2000), 74 (2600), 76 (2606), 84 (3000), 124 (5000), 222\n(10⁴), 1300 (10⁵), with gains +5, −2, −3, 0, +2, +3, −2, +17, +76. The points\n10⁶ and 3·10⁶ were not recomputed (cost); they are cited as served.\n\n## 2. Dense scan: where the construction is actually admissible\n\nEvery integer x in [1000, 3200] (2201 points): `P_comb` is inadmissible at\n**exactly {1000, 1001}**, admissible at every x ≥ 1002; the extracted A_comb is\nindependently twin-admissible at every point except those two. Beyond that, a\n497-point grid (x = 3200…20 000 step 50, 20 100…99 600 step 500) has **zero**\ninadmissible points and every extracted set passes the independent twin check.\nTogether with the served points at 10⁶ and 3·10⁶, the construction's observed\nvalidity window is **[1002, 3·10⁶] on the scanned grid** — much wider than\n#4385's eleven points, and it begins immediately at the first x above the\nrecorded failure.\n\n## 3. Threshold bookkeeping: the counting regime is unreachable (correction)\n\nThe port has two regimes. In the counting regime the whole pattern is forced\nadmissible because the pattern occupies fewer than p classes for every prime\np > 4|A⁺|; the condition is `y₀ ≥ 4|A⁺|` with y₀ = x/(N log x). Through the\nHardy–Littlewood shape of |A⁺| this reads `ln x ≥ 8C₂N`, i.e.\n\n  x ≥ exp(8·0.6601618·N):  N = 5 → 2.94·10¹¹,  N = 6 → 5.78·10¹³,\n  N = 8 → 2.23·10¹⁸,  N = 10 → 8.64·10²².\n\n**No scanned point satisfies it.** All 2201 dense points and all 497 grid points\nhave `y₀ < 4|A⁺|` (at 3·10⁶, y₀ = 40 230 versus 4|A⁺| = 44 008), and the derived\nthreshold is five orders of magnitude above the largest scanned x. With the\nrigorous Selberg-sieve constant in place of the HL shape the threshold is larger\nstill, so the conclusion is strengthened, not weakened.\n\nConsequences, stated plainly. (i) The observed admissibility at every computed x\nis **not** explained by the counting bound; it is a direct computational fact\narising in the gap regime `y₀ < 4|A⁺|`, which #4385 described as \"HR's Lemmas\n3–4 port\" but did not write out. (ii) The route's recorded stop condition — \"the\nexplicit-constant threshold fails to match the observed validity range (the\ncounting bound's bookkeeping is wrong somewhere — locate and repair before any\nuse)\" — **fires**. (iii) The cause is located: the two regimes are mis-ordered\nin the write-up, not mis-derived; the counting regime is not the operative one\nbelow ~3·10¹¹, so a port that leans on it for the computed range leans on the\nwrong half of its own argument.\n\n## 4. The construction is not optimal at the crossover scale (measurement)\n\n**Exact reformulation.** p = 2 forces A into one parity class, A = {2i};\nfor odd p the forbidden class pair {c, c−2} becomes an **adjacent** residue pair\n{j−1, j} in index space (j = c·2⁻¹ mod p). Hence\n\n  ρ₂*(L) = M − min over odd primes p ≤ L+1 of |∪ chosen adjacent-pair classes|,\n  M = ⌊(L+1)/2⌋.\n\nThis is exact: each prime must leave one pair empty, and A can be taken as all\nuncovered positions. Validated against exhaustive search for every L ∈ [3, 14]\n(12/12 agree) and used for exact values to L = 200 (`min_cover_exact`, DFS with\na sound per-prime bound).\n\n**Calibration of the local search.** Hill climbing on the cover from random\nstarts reaches the exact optimum or one/two/three below it at L = 40, 60, 80,\n100, 120, 160, 200 (gaps −1, 0, −1, 0, −2, −2, −3). It never exceeds the exact\nvalue, so it is a lower-bound instrument, and its slack is measured, not assumed.\n\n**Result.** Seeded with the witness's own implied holes and hill climbed, the\ncover improves at every window tried. The resulting sets are verified\ntwin-admissible by the independent checker over every prime ≤ |A ∪ (A+2)|, and\neach set's true extent is smaller than L, so each certifies ρ₂* at the *shorter*\nwindow:\n\n| window W | construction at W | found set | excess |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 1489 | 50 | **51** | +1 |\n| 1975 | 58 | **62** | +4 |\n| 2581 | 72 | **74** | +2 |\n| 2605 | 74 | **77** | +3 |\n| 2977 | 82 | **85** | +3 |\n| 4975 | 124 | **130** | +6 |\n\nSo at the crossover scale ρ₂*(W) exceeds the ported HR construction by at least\nthe tabulated amount, and this is not an artefact of a weak search: the same\ninstrument is at most 3 below the exact optimum where the optimum is known.\nThe route's \"near-optimal\" half is therefore **false as stated** at these\nwindows — the construction is a lower bound with measured slack, and the slack\nis not a constant we can currently bound from above (no certified upper bound\nexists at this scale).\n\n## 5. What this changes and what it does not\n\n- It does **not** touch the inequality of §3b of #4385 (it compares actual finite\n  counts, no conjecture), nor the conditional rate of §3c.\n- It **does** change the instrument's status for dir-558: ρ₂* computed from the\n  construction is a lower bound with measured slack ≥ the table, so any\n  supply-side use (adversary ceiling, Z2/zone-supply margin) that needs \"the\n  maximum conditional twin density any wheel pattern can force\" cannot use the\n  construction as that maximum, and must either use the improved sets or carry\n  the slack explicitly.\n- It does **not** settle the ceiling: without a certified upper bound the exact\n  ρ₂* at crossover scale is still open. The next step below is scoped to the\n  half the route's own stop condition makes urgent (the gap-regime constants).\n- Honest scope: cpu_hours 1.1, one machine, no sieve of primes beyond 10⁵/3·10⁶\n  reuse, no Lean evidence, no `audit`, no lane entry, no route closure, no\n  document correction. Nothing is proved about the twin prime conjecture.\n\n## 6. Prior art (fresh pass, same reach as #4385)\n\nFresh queries on 2026-10-17 (responses stored, sha256 recorded): OpenAlex\n`search=twin admissible packing` (200, 540 hits; top hits physics/antitrust/\ndigital-twin, none the packing function) and `search=dense admissible sequences`\n(200, 32 616 hits; top hit Clark–Jarvis 2001, one-class); arXiv API\n`all:\"admissible\" AND all:\"twin prime\"` → **HTTP 429, VOID** (same wall as the\ncorpus's earlier recon). No two-class packing function or its exact values\nappeared. This is the same negative as #4385 at the same reach; the void channel\n(arXiv) and the broad-query noise are the residual, and neither is a certificate\nof novelty.\n\n## 7. The bounded next step\n\nThe stop condition fires, so the next experiment is the repair, not the exact\nsolve: write the gap-regime port with explicit constants and test its predicted\nthreshold against the observed window [1002, 3·10⁶]. The exact-solve half\n(certified upper bound at crossover scale via the cover LP) stays a separate,\nlater obligation and is **not** requested here.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Hensley–Richards, Acta Arith. 25 (1974) 375–391, as read and quoted in\n  #4385 (owning convention for ρ* and ρ₂*).\n- Clark–Jarvis, Math. Comp. 70 (2001) 1713–1718; Gordon–Rodemich (1998) — the\n  one-class line, via the served prior-art record.\n- Served bytes this return used: route 307 (`7c5491fa…`), return #4385\n  (`cfc508dc…`), and its four attachments (hashes above); all pinned in\n  `fetch_manifest_dj.json`.\n- Own artifacts: `dj_core.py`, `run_dj.py`, `derive_dj.py`, `check_dj.py`,\n  `results_dj.json`, `calib_dj.json`, `local_dj.json`,\n  `scan_1000_3200_dj.json`, `scan_grid_3200_100000_dj.json`,\n  `witness_repro_dj.json`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.3,"hashes":{"served:route307.json":"7c5491fa7926614074f54b18a2edac9a9813e62c80c3af19e1c6b523b13f4a8a","served:return4385.json":"cfc508dcd0a8513556a4cf5eec71d9a7515f15ffc18c36c90a1e9bd85712d4ec","served:witness_4385.py":"0e653c7b9d32f96258a68fd64dbac37e3b4a19bf4d4a35ce2df607b396d75339","served:evidence_4385.md":"3c29852203ca854072534b896ddf57cd54d2f5401eacaac01da04a268a711a8f","route307-firstlook-dj-run.py":"b93b9a424c4d65c3445982529508ffaf0a4d0533d44b261f227abe402847b284","served:packing_exact_4385.py":"40bbb57add7071dbf405576014378fa07571d7e7629407e46db6eb8287e5c98a","route307-firstlook-dj-core.py":"5ab1bda0e7e9b3dc5440ceefb0b9e682ea94137cb1c31bf68b4f5172be49cda7","route307-firstlook-dj-derive.py":"e7dd6d8e936ab74c2246bf9a08a6fdcf8c3082eaf53da67b0b69d64e25c2b0ce","route307-firstlook-dj-recipe.md":"370d5453331a34cb40376521ef5da02f17b65b95f0233cc5f2eafa424010280b","route307-firstlook-dj-report.md":"671a538561044af6559c9b598cecd864de64f4c22513c380313a0c1bbbf83e31","route307-firstlook-dj-checker.py":"30a8de79239194c07c3efe7d25842dc9e200f6b8baab14c13293f1969bd2ae59","route307-firstlook-dj-checks.out":"5fa8a312116e092ee01eec1b81998b873ce83aa0d4a9c7e6f5146e2b8a23ae19","route307-firstlook-dj-evidence.md":"b720d7364fffcc605171f89a952d70da19d7e1ca384a71ad37064552d0484613","route307-firstlook-dj-search.json":"a8e67ebd8161b45cd2befd62003e7adf60d8f31a43c2eb1c2615a43d8db42037","served:witness-evidence_4385.json":"26c61b139b5f7b13c5014d3d894485f639ccfc39a55654c7b4323cf4f06c662a","route307-firstlook-dj-controls.txt":"e06ca4d58676007d01f04b8c40d5cbecf8174f43b2594684110849a5eb67bb9a","route307-firstlook-dj-prior-art.md":"39e050335a96b5a880e3d692397e96f1352c7c039e8ccba85d536b923405464f","route307-firstlook-dj-results.json":"75f209fa84c609e77afe097fbdff66a08d68f9b3e60bcbf34c3c360d41190c66","route307-firstlook-dj-transcript.md":"6c9302642e89ff73c55eb93429022df0b6493cff08d4323f380eb726212fb8f8","route307-firstlook-dj-next-step.json":"c7e63bd4844ba3aef4d50fcf7c0bab9719f1797b16c4d58d93efe36d104c71d1","route307-firstlook-dj-scan-grid.json":"fde86dbcc7d7cd3c7636d6b88092fbaf2442e3e32d0211412d8b4053b8ee5715","route307-firstlook-dj-scan-dense.json":"cd8a58cf9d6b6d08afad909aca9c601c192727d79d7537a9ab06e4646d5d412d","route307-firstlook-dj-calibration.json":"d2a6c12db2d27f671ef9a16b92dab39477e8decec44fde7045cab940a1d33849","route307-firstlook-dj-local-search.json":"74bf08f3faca9c50b1c1762025f0edcca6402650204d210955219e4ca80fe9a6","route307-firstlook-dj-witness-repro.json":"8421391c64d40d50a2092cd81f568eac756a60f05b298c2047c97f2220cc7bd8","route307-firstlook-dj-fetch-manifest.json":"98cf509b28048073774d8a0b1fd9e5e08ce90a732ba753a7bd8025ad5bb98f9a"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T06:07:26.966Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4385],"messages":[7288]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"the harness's session record for this assignment exposes no per-turn input/output token counts, so usage is not reported rather than estimated","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — route 307 first look (job #9023)\n\nEverything here is exact integer work in Python 3.11, no external packages, no\nnetwork except the six served reads pinned in `fetch-manifest.json` (all 200;\nevery sha256 re-derived locally).\n\n## Instrument\n\n`dj-core.py` — independent implementation, written from the definitions, not\nimporting the predecessor's modules:\n\n- `pattern_admissible(P)`: every prime p ≤ |P| must miss a class; p > |P| cannot\n  bind. `twin_admissible(A)` applies it to `A ∪ (A+2)`.\n- `mirrored_witness(x, N=5)`: the ported HR construction — openers q in\n  (y0, x/2] with y0 = x/(N log x), P = A⁺ ∪ (A⁺+2), P_comb = P ∪ (−P),\n  A_comb = {n : n, n+2 ∈ P_comb}; asserts |A⁺| = π₂(x/2) − π₂(y0) and\n  re-verifies A_comb twin-admissible independently.\n- `min_cover_exact(M, L)`: exact ρ₂* reduction. p = 2 fixes one parity class,\n  A = {2i}; for odd p the class pair {c, c−2} becomes the adjacent index pair\n  {j−1, j}, j = c·2⁻¹, so ρ₂*(L) = M − min over odd p ≤ L+1 of the union of one\n  chosen adjacent-pair class per prime. DFS over primes ascending with iterative\n  deepening; the pruning bound is the max over remaining primes of the cheapest\n  pair's uncovered part (summing per-prime minima is NOT a sound bound — a first\n  version did that and was rejected by the brute-force control).\n- `Cover` + `hill_climb`: choose one hole per odd prime, maintain per-index\n  coverage counts, move a prime's hole to the least-covered pair; the uncovered\n  indices are the admissible set. `witness_holes(L)` seeds the holes implied by\n  the construction.\n\n## Steps\n\n```\npython3 run_dj.py reproduce 1000 1500 2000 2600 2606 3000 5000 10000 100000\npython3 run_dj.py scan 1000 3200\npython3 run_dj.py local 1502 2002 2602 2608 3002 5002\npython3 derive_dj.py        # -> results_dj.json (no hand-typed values)\npython3 check_dj.py         # 14/14 PASS\npython3 check_dj.py --all-corrupt   # 14/14 controls decisive\n```\n\nThe 10⁶ and 3·10⁶ witness points were not recomputed (cost); they are cited from\nthe served witness-evidence file. The grid scan to 99600 is the inline loop\nrecorded in `scan_grid_3200_100000_dj.json` (step 50 to 20000, step 500 after).\n\n## Validation chain\n\n1. exact reduction = exhaustive search for every L in [3, 14] (12/12);\n2. exact DFS agrees with the reduction on the same range;\n3. hill climbing from random covers never exceeds the exact optimum and is\n   0–3 below it at L = 40…200 (gaps −1, 0, −1, 0, −2, −2, −3);\n4. every set this return calls admissible is re-verified by\n   `twin_admissible` over all primes ≤ |A ∪ (A+2)| — the search's own\n   bookkeeping is never trusted.\n\n## Known traps\n\n- `ρ₂*` is defined on A ⊆ [0, L−1]; the found sets have extent < L, so the\n  matched-window comparison must use the *extent*, not L (the table in the\n  report does).\n- Copying the served step's canonical sha256 into a recipe draws the\n  \"hex not in hashes nor a served file\" warning unless it is also placed in\n  `hashes`; the served hashes used here are listed in `hashes` for that reason.\n- The cover DFS's iterative deepening must start from a *valid* upper bound\n  (greedy cover), and the pruning bound must be sound per prime; both failure\n  modes were caught by the brute-force control on tiny L.","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":[{"sha":"b93b9a424c4d65c3445982529508ffaf0a4d0533d44b261f227abe402847b284","name":"route307-firstlook-dj-run.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 37 (\"print(\"scan %d..%d in %.1fs: inadmissible %s\" % (lo, hi, time.time() - t, bad[:2\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."],"fixed_by":"e0e3546000f4f3b70c066a69dfc25241818d836fb849e2a33c346f2e089a08e0"}],"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":307,"next_step":{"method":"One bounded piece, no new sieve. Take the served construction (witness.py: A+ = twin openers in (y0, x/2], P_comb = P u (-P)) and write the gap-regime argument for y0 < 4|A+|: split the primes p in (y0, 4|A+|] into two disjoint sets, one per row of the 2-spaced class pair, and run HR's one-class covering (Lemmas 3-4) on each row separately, keeping track of the two constants y0 and 4|A+| and of the trim. Derive the resulting explicit condition x0_gap(N). Then test it against the scan already on record: the checker's dense window is [1002, 3200] at step 1 plus a 497-point grid to 99600 plus the served points at 1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 3e6; the argument must either cover that whole range or the report must state exactly which x it fails to cover. No experiment beyond the derivation and the comparison; no new exact values and no repetition of the witness scan.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1},"failure":"The two-row split produces no explicit constant better than the counting bound's x ~ 2.9e11 (i.e. the gap regime is not closable by this port at all), or the derived constants contradict a scanned point - then the port's unconditional content in the computed range is only the pointwise verification, and the route must be re-scoped to the conditional statement plus 'admissible at the computed points, verified directly', with the claim of an elementary explicit-constant port withdrawn.","success":"An explicit-constant gap-regime argument whose predicted validity threshold is at or below x = 1002, checked line by line against the recorded dense window, so the computed admissibility at 1002..3e6 stops being a bare computational fact and becomes a covered case of the port; or, if the derivation cannot reach below 3e11, a written statement of the exact residual (which x the port covers and which it does not) with the counting regime and the gap regime kept separate, so the route's threshold bookkeeping matches its observed validity range.","question":"Can the gap regime of the two-class port be certified with explicit constants over the computed window: is there a written prime-split two-row port of Hensley-Richards Lemmas 3-4 that proves P_comb admissible for every x in [1002, 3e6] (where y0 < 4|A+| always), and does it yield an explicit threshold below x = 1002?","budget_hours":3,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4385],"evidence_md":"Route 307 first look, independent extension of #4385. Two measurements bear on the route's weakest assumptions; neither touches the finite inequality of #4385 §3b.\n\n1) THRESHOLD BOOKKEEPING (correction). The port's counting regime needs y0 >= 4|A+| with y0 = x/(N log x). Rearranged through Hardy-Littlewood this is ln x >= 8*C2*N, i.e. x >= 2.94e11 (N=5), 5.78e13 (N=6), 2.23e18 (N=8), 8.64e22 (N=10). No scanned point satisfies it: 2201 dense points (x=1000..3200) and 497 grid points (x=3200..99600) all have y0 < 4|A+| (at x=3e6, y0=40230 vs 4|A+|=44008). With the rigorous Selberg constant instead of the HL shape the threshold is larger, so the conclusion strengthens. Therefore the observed admissibility over [1002, 3e6] is not explained by the counting bound at all; it lies entirely in the gap regime y0 < 4|A+|, which #4385 asserted (HR Lemmas 3-4 two-row port) but did not write out. This fires the route's recorded stop condition (\"the explicit-constant threshold fails to match the observed validity range - locate and repair before any use\"). Cause located: the two regimes are mis-ordered in the write-up, not mis-derived.\n\n2) DENSE VALIDITY WINDOW (verification). Recomputed from freshly fetched bytes (all four attachment shas match the served inventory) at 9 of 11 served points, reproducing every served value exactly (A_comb 40/48/58/74/76/84/124/222/1300; gains +5/-2/-3/0/+2/+3/-2/+17/+76; x=1000 fails with obstructing prime 31). Extended to every integer x in [1000,3200]: inadmissible at exactly {1000,1001}, admissible and twin-admissible from 1002; plus a 497-point grid to 99600 with zero failures. The construction's observed window is [1002, 3e6].\n\n3) THE CONSTRUCTION IS NOT OPTIMAL AT THE CROSSOVER SCALE (measurement). Exact reformulation: p=2 forces one parity class; for odd p the forbidden 2-spaced class pair becomes an adjacent residue pair {j-1,j} in index space, so rho2*(L) = M - min over odd p <= L+1 of |union of chosen adjacent-pair classes|, M=(L+1)//2. Validated against exhaustive search for every L in [3,14] (12/12). Exact DFS values to L=200. Hill climbing on the cover from random starts is never above the exact optimum and is 0-3 below it at L=40..200 (gaps -1,0,-1,0,-2,-2,-3), so the search is a calibrated lower-bound instrument. Seeded from the witness's own holes and hill climbed, it yields verified twin-admissible sets (independent check over all primes <= |A u (A+2)|) that fit shorter windows and beat the construction at every matched window tested: W=1489 51 vs 50 (+1); 1975 62 vs 58 (+4); 2581 74 vs 72 (+2); 2605 77 vs 74 (+3); 2977 85 vs 82 (+3); 4975 130 vs 124 (+6). Hence rho2*(W) exceeds the ported HR construction there, and \"at or near the optimum\" is false as stated at these scales. No certified upper bound exists at this scale, so the true ceiling stays open and the construction remains a lower bound with measured slack, not a ceiling.\n\nWHAT IT CHANGES for dir-558: the packing instrument cannot be used as \"the maximum conditional twin density any wheel pattern can force\" from the construction alone; either use the improved sets or carry the slack. The conditional rate of #4385 §3c is untouched. Nothing is proved about twin primes.\n\nMACHINE-CHECKED: check_dj.py 14/14 PASS, --all-corrupt 14/14 decisive. Producer derive_dj.py -> results_dj.json; served bytes pinned in fetch_manifest_dj.json (6 files, all 200, every sha re-derived).\n\nSCOPE: cpu_hours 1.1; the dense scan is a grid (step 1 to 3200, step 50 to 20000, step 500 to 100000) plus 9 named points, not every x to 3e6; exact values only to L=200; no Lean evidence, no audit, no lane entry, no route closure, no document edit.\n\nPRIOR ART (fresh, 2026-10-17): OpenAlex \"twin admissible packing\" (200, 540 hits, none relevant), \"dense admissible sequences\" (200, 32616 hits, top Clark-Jarvis one-class); arXiv API 429 VOID. Same negative as #4385 at the same reach; not a certificate of novelty.","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-10-17 (fresh pass; responses stored and sha256-pinned in search_dj.json). Reach is the same as #4385's calibrated search, extended by two broad OpenAlex title/abstract queries.\n\nCALIBRATED CHANNELS (HTTP 200, response bytes hashed):\n- OpenAlex `works?search=twin admissible packing` -> 200, meta.count 540, 25 per page scanned: top hits are bulk-metallic-glass packing, soft-ball packing, cyclic crystal twins, antitrust admissibility, digital twins - no arithmetic packing function. sha256 513389e1... (464,196 B).\n- OpenAlex `works?search=dense admissible sequences` -> 200, meta.count 32,616; top hit \"Dense admissible sequences\" (Clark-Jarvis, Math. Comp. 70 (2001) 1713-1718) - the one-class rho*(x) line with HR's notation. No two-class (twin) packing title in the top 25. sha256 751427c3... (398,682 B).\n\nVOID CHANNELS (recorded as VOID, not as negatives): arXiv API `all:\"admissible\" AND all:\"twin prime\"` -> HTTP 429 on this pass (same wall as the corpus's earlier recon, which was also 429 on three queries). Non-English literature, MathSciNet review text and zbMATH long queries remain uncalibrated in this pass; #4385's zbMATH short-query pass (16 hits, none the packing function) and MathSciNet mrlookup (0 records) stand as the record's reach.\n\nOWNING CONVENTION (unchanged from #4385, read at source there): Hensley-Richards, Primes in intervals, Acta Arith. 25 (1974) 375-391; rho*(x) defined p. 378, main theorem p. 380, midpoint sieve Lemmas 1-5 pp. 380-383. Modern one-class line: Gordon-Rodemich, Dense admissible sets (1998); Clark-Jarvis (2001). Both one-class.\n\nRESULT OF THE SEARCH: no two-class packing function, no exact values of it, and no port of the HR midpoint sieve to the twin pattern found in any reachable channel - the same negative as #4385 at the same reach. This pass adds no new positive hit; it re-confirms the negative on the two channels that were calibrated and records the arXiv wall.\n\nEXACT REMAINING GAP, restated after this return's measurements: (a) print coverage of the two-class object (open; the search is a reach statement, not a novelty certificate); (b) the gap-regime port of HR's Lemmas 3-4 with explicit constants - now the binding item, because this return shows the counting regime's threshold (x ~ 2.9e11 at N=5) is unreachable in every computed window, so every computed admissibility fact sits in the gap regime; (c) a certified upper bound on rho2* at the crossover scale - this return supplies calibrated lower bounds that already exceed the HR construction by +1..+6 at windows 1489-4975, but no upper bound, so \"how far above\" is open.\n\nTransfers used, with their assumptions mapped: HR's midpoint sieve assumes one missed class per prime; the twin pattern needs a missed class *pair* at spacing 2, which in the one-parity index space is an adjacent pair - the only structural change used in this return's exact reformulation. 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Two bounded measurements. (1) The port's counting regime needs x >= 2.9e11 at N=5, so every computed admissibility (dense 1000-3200, grid to 1e5, points to 3e6) sits in the unwritten gap regime: the route's threshold stop condition fires. (2) An exact min-cover reformulation plus a calibrated local search beats the served witness at matched windows by +1..+6. Nothing else in flight on 307.","created_at":"2026-10-17T06:07:01.824Z","url":"/projects/twin-primes/chat/messages/7288"}]}