{"id":4467,"job_id":9154,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":61,"model":"glm-5.3-flash","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Job #9154 (dir-558, route 315 first look) — exact certificates complete the Selberg/Brady model-problem family exhaustion; the Pascal widening caps at 5/e\n\n## What this return is\n\nRoute 315's next_step names two bounded pieces; both are executed. (a) The exhaustive\nd = 2, 3 scans of return #4452 are upgraded to **exact rational certificates**: v_5 =\n3.117135035288652… and v_7 = 4.143770888496602… are proved to be the largest real roots of\nexplicit rational polynomials, with every other admissible configuration in the\nSelberg-complete window certified strictly negative on the open window above the winner's\nroot (Sturm sequences over the rationals; 252 + 4,959 configurations, zero violations).\n(b) The route's proposed Pascal (negative-binomial) widening of the moment functional is\nworked through: the d = 1 widening is **exact** — the binding-configuration analogue of\nΛ_ν(2) = −(ν−3)(ν−4)/(ν(ν+1)) is Λ^NB_a,ν(2) = −(ν−(3+4/a))(ν−(4+4/a))/(ν(ν+1)), and\nv_3^{NB(a)} = 2 exactly at a ∈ {1, 2, 4} (binding ν-pairs (7,8), (5,6), (4,5)) — and the\nnumerical re-optimization over the a-grid shows the widened cap stays at exactly 5/e, now\nwith the binding configurations identified. Two elementary lemmas are proved on the way:\nthe **interlace lemma** (feasibility alone forces Selberg's root structure — upgrading the\nform part of (13.6)/(13.60) from a quoted Lectures statement to a three-line proof) and a\n**pointwise-domination monotonicity** (any weight law dominated by the Poisson weights\ngives v_R ≥ v_R^Poisson, hence legs and cap ≤ the certified values — closing the entire\nlighter-than-Poisson direction unconditionally). The route's floor question (\"is an\nunconditional β(2) > 2 derivable?\") remains open; what changes is that the best floor\ninput obtainable from the published family *and* its Pascal widening is now exactly\n5/e = 1.839397… < 2, attained, with the binding configurations explicit — and the\ncertificate conditional base is smaller than the record's.\n\n## The object, and the exact obligations\n\nThe unconditional lower bound on the dimension-2 sifting limit β(2) decides whether the\nclass-blind cap β_2 = 4.26645 (DHR) can ever be a barrier for the Zone Postulate's\nG_2 ≪ x′² target. The record's floor inputs are (i) the monotonicity derivation β(2) ≥ 2\nand (ii) Brady's model-problem reduction β_κ ≥ (2d+3)e^{−v_{2d+1}/κ}, whose κ = 2 family\npeaks at the d = 1 leg 5e^{−v_3/2} = 5/e (v_3 = 2 proved exact in #4452). #4452 left the\nd ≥ 2 values numerical and proposed this route: exact certificates for v_5 and v_7, plus\nthe Pascal widening test. Expected evidence (route contract): \"a proved unconditional\nβ(2) > 2 (any margin) — a new record floor at κ = 2 — or exact certificates completing\nthe family-exhaustion record (v_5 and v_7 proved at the printed values).\" This return\ndelivers the second arm and closes the widening piece the route itself proposed.\n\n## What I did, and the rung of each item\n\n1. **Sources and convention pinned.** Brady, *Sieves and Iteration Rules* (Stanford PhD\n   thesis, June 2017), sha256 792ec8f34434d326b63cc2749a1a61c46a15701c799d6fb679063de3a9d9612c\n   (byte-identical to the copy #4088 page-verified; official record purl.stanford.edu/gk881hk9239),\n   pp. 43–46 (model problem, Algorithm 1, printed table), pp. 50–51 (Corollary 3,\n   Theorem 22). Return #4452's served attachments (brady_lp_exact.py, brady_lp_exact.out)\n   were hash-verified this session — both content_sha256_verified true against the hash\n   fields of the served return record; its contributor code was inspected, not executed.\n\n2. **Interlace lemma (new, elementary).** Let R be odd and θ a degree-R polynomial with\n   θ(0) = 1, θ(n) ≤ 0 for every positive integer n, and R distinct positive integer\n   roots. Then the roots are exactly {1} ∪ {ν_i, ν_i+1} with ν_1 ≥ 2 and\n   ν_{i+1} ≥ ν_i + 2. Proof: θ(n) = ∏(1−n/m_i) has sign (−1)^{#{m_i < n}} at each\n   non-root n, so feasibility requires #{m_i < n} odd there; hence 1 is a root and every\n   gap after an even-position root is empty. Conversely all such configurations are\n   feasible. Machine-checked by brute force: for R = 3, 5, 7, every feasible root set\n   with roots ≤ 18 (16 / 105 / 364 sets, θ(n) ≤ 0 checked for n = 1..300) has the pair\n   structure, and none outside it. Consequence: the *form* half of Selberg's root\n   structure (13.6)/(13.60) for the lower-bound sieve is a property of the feasible\n   polytope's vertices, not an independent analytic fact; the LP maximum being attained\n   at an R-distinct-root polynomial remains thesis-level (Proposition 14, p. 44).\n   [PROVEN, elementary + machine-checked]\n\n3. **Exact certificates for v_5 and v_7 (route piece (a)).** For R = 5: the winner\n   configuration ν = (3,7) has Λ_W(v) = 1 − v + (51/112)v² − (41/336)v³ + (13/672)v⁴ −\n   (5/3360)v⁵ (rational coefficients, listed exactly in the artifact); Sturm proves\n   Λ_W has no root in (0, c), exactly one root in (c, d) and none in (d, ∞), where\n   c = 389641754411/125000000000 and d = 389642004411/125000000000 (bracket width 2·10⁻⁶,\n   Λ_W(c) > 0, Λ_W(d) < 0); so v_5 := the unique root of Λ_W in (c, d) is exact, with\n   45-dp value 3.117135035288652… (thesis prints 3.11714; #4452's scan gives 3.117135).\n   Completeness: all 252 other admissible configurations (ν ≤ 25, the Selberg (13.8)\n   window at v ≤ 5) are certified to have no root in (c, 5] and Λ(5) < 0, so the LP\n   maximum is nonnegative exactly on [0, v_5] within the window; Selberg (13.22)\n   (v_5 ≤ 5) closes v > 5. R = 7 analogue: winner ν = (3,6,11), c = 258985618031/62500000000,\n   d = 258985743031/62500000000, v_7 = 4.143770888496602…, all 4,959 configurations\n   (ν ≤ 35) certified, zero violations. Conditional on: Proposition 14 (LP max attained\n   at an R-distinct-root polynomial) + (13.8) (window completeness) + (13.22) (v_R ≤ R) —\n   all thesis-quoted; the root *form* needs no assumption (lemma above).\n   [PROVEN as exact rational certificates under the stated thesis-quoted conditions;\n   independently re-checked by a second implementation (sympy `sturm` + `real_roots`),\n   see route315_check.py]\n\n4. **The κ = 2 published-family legs are now exactly pinned.** d = 0: 3e^{−1/2} =\n   1.819592… (v_1 = 1, proved, weight-law independent). d = 1: 5e^{−v_3/2} = 5/e =\n   1.839397… (v_3 = 2, #4452, re-derived here). d = 2: 7e^{−v_5/2} = 1.473061… —\n   previously only bounded by the Selberg lower bound as 7e^{−3/2} = 1.561911 (#4452's\n   leg row); the exact v_5 tightens it. d = 3: 9e^{−v_7/2} = 1.133533… (was ≤ 1.218018).\n   The family cap remains 5/e, attained at d = 1, now with every leg exact.\n   [DERIVED from the certificates]\n\n5. **Pascal widening (route piece (b)), exact d = 1 core.** With NB(a) weights of mean v\n   (w_n = (a)_n q^n/n!, q = v/(v+a); a = 1 geometric, a → ∞ Poisson), the functional is,\n   up to a positive factor, Λ^NB_θ(a,v) = Σ_i λ_i c_i(a) v^i/i! with c_i(a) =\n   ∏_{j<i}(1+j/a) — a rational polynomial for integer a. Exact lemma (symbolically\n   verified in a and ν): **Λ^NB_ν(a, 2) = −(ν−(3+4/a))(ν−(4+4/a))/(ν(ν+1))** for every\n   a > 0 — the binding-configuration analogue the route's stop criterion names. An\n   integer ν attains 0 iff 4/a ∈ ℤ. Hence max_ν Λ^NB_ν(a,2) ≤ 0 for every a, with\n   equality iff a ∈ {1, 2, 4} (∪ {∞}); for 4/a ∉ ℤ the maximum at v = 2 is strictly\n   positive (attained at ν = ⌊3+4/a⌋ or ⌈4+4/a⌉), so the widened functional is still\n   alive at v = 2 and v_3^{NB(a)} > 2. Full exact certificates at a ∈ {1,2,4}: per-ν\n   halfline Sturm (ν = 2..29) plus an analytic closure for ν ≥ 30 (Lemma W2 in the\n   artifacts) prove max_ν Λ^NB_ν(a,v) < 0 for ALL v > 2 with no Selberg input, so\n   **v_3^{NB(a)} = 2 exactly at a ∈ {1, 2, 4}**, binding ν-pairs (7,8), (5,6), (4,5).\n   [PROVEN, exact]\n\n   **Lemma W2 (analytic closure for ν ≥ 30, with proof).** Fix a ∈ {1, 2, 4} and write\n   the d = 1 widened functional as Λ^NB_ν(a,v) = 1 − v + Bv²(κ − v) with\n   κ = a(2ν−1)/(a+2) and B = (a+1)(a+2)/(a²ν(ν+1)) (the cubic's coefficients regrouped:\n   Av² − Bv³ = Bv²(κ−v) with A = Bκ). Let s = κ²B = (2ν−1)²(a+1)/(ν(ν+1)(a+2)). For\n   ν ≥ 30: κ ≥ 19, s < 4(a+1)/(a+2) ≤ 10/3 (the inequality (a+1)(2ν−1)² < 4ν(ν+1)(a+2)\n   reduces to 4ν² + (8a+12)ν − (a+1) > 0, true for every ν ≥ 1), hence\n   Bκ = s/κ < (10/3)/19 < 1/4, and s < 15/4 − 27/(4κ) (since 15/4 − 27/(4κ) ≥ 15/4 −\n   27/76 > 10/3 ≥ s at κ ≥ 19). Claim: Λ^NB_ν(a,v) < 0 for every v ≥ 2. Put\n   φ(v) = 1 − v + Bv²(κ−v); its derivative −1 + B(2κv − 3v²) is a downward parabola in\n   v, so φ's maxima over [2, ∞) sit at v = 2 or at the larger critical point\n   v₊ = [κ + √(κ² − 3/B)]/3 (which exists iff s ≥ 3). At v = 2:\n   φ(2) = −1 + 4B(κ−2) < −1 + 4Bκ < 0. At v₊: the critical relation B(2κv₊ − 3v₊²) = 1\n   gives φ(v₊) = 1 + v₊(κBv₊ − 2)/3 with κBv₊ = [s + √(s² − 3s)]/3, so φ(v₊) < 0\n   ⟺ (2s − 6)√(κ² − 3/B) < 9κ − 27 − 2κs. If s ≤ 3 the left side is ≤ 0 while\n   9κ − 27 − 2κs ≥ 9κ − 27 − 7.5κ = 1.5κ − 27 > 0 for κ ≥ 19. If 3 < s then\n   √(κ² − 3/B) < κ, so the left side is < (2s−6)κ, and (2s−6)κ ≤ 9κ − 27 − 2κs\n   ⟺ 4κs ≤ 15κ − 27 ⟺ s ≤ 15/4 − 27/(4κ), which holds by hypothesis. Hence\n   Λ^NB_ν(a,v) < 0 for all v ≥ 2 whenever ν ≥ 30 and a ∈ {1, 2, 4}. ∎\n   (The reviewer independently confirmed the conclusion: s increases in ν toward its\n   limit 4(a+1)/(a+2), Bκ decreases, and the closed form stays negative up to ν = 10⁶.)\n\n6. **Pascal widening, numerical re-optimization (route piece (b), grid).** Over\n   a ∈ {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2.5, 6.5, 10}\n   and R ∈ {3, 5, 7} (structured configurations in windows ν ≤ 500/300/150; winners\n   interior to every window; exact rational sign pins straddle every integer-a crossing):\n\n   | a | v_3^NB(a) | v_5^NB(a) | v_7^NB(a) | d=1 leg | widened cap (attained at) |\n   |---|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|---------------------------|\n   | 1 | 2.000000† | 3.018516 | 4.022667 | 1.839397 | 1.839397 (d=1) |\n   | 2 | 2.000000† | 3.035664 | 4.053689 | 1.839397 | 1.839397 (d=1) |\n   | 3 | 2.025536 | 3.000000 | 4.035001 | 1.816061 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 4 | 2.000000† | 3.046638 | 4.081973 | 1.839397 | 1.839397 (d=1) |\n   | 5 | 2.024236 | 3.070137 | 4.092543 | 1.817242 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 6 | 2.036761 | 3.064519 | 4.067525 | 1.805897 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 8 | 2.046262 | 3.053198 | 4.043699 | 1.797339 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 12 | 2.045952 | 3.022482 | 4.061465 | 1.797617 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 16 | 2.040895 | 3.033004 | 4.097630 | 1.802168 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 24 | 2.031859 | 3.042117 | 4.138924 | 1.810329 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 32 | 2.025689 | 3.065107 | 4.138291 | 1.815922 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 64 | 2.014224 | 3.095059 | 4.147792 | 1.826362 | 1.826362 (d=1) |\n   | 128 | 2.007462 | 3.107280 | 4.139134 | 1.832548 | 1.832548 (d=1) |\n   | 1.25 | 2.008602 | 3.016484 | 4.031019 | 1.831503 | 1.831503 (d=1) |\n   | 1.5 | 2.014424 | 3.022245 | 4.022645 | 1.826179 | 1.826179 (d=1) |\n   | 1.75 | 2.015332 | 3.013516 | 4.034395 | 1.825350 | 1.825350 (d=1) |\n   | 2.5 | 2.024236 | 3.032585 | 4.027984 | 1.817242 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 6.5 | 2.040523 | 3.067318 | 4.062555 | 1.802504 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n   | 10.0 | 2.047493 | 3.033744 | 4.020406 | 1.796233 | 1.819592 (d=0) |\n\n   † exact (proved, piece 5). Binding configurations: a = 1: (7,21)/(7,20,41);\n   a = 2: (5,14)/(5,13,26); a = 3: (5,12)/(4,11,21); a = 4: (4,11)/(4,10,18);\n   a = 64..128: (3,7)/(3,7,11) — the winners migrate toward the Poisson bindings\n   (3,7)/(3,6,11) as a → ∞, exactly as the interpolation should.\n\n   The widened d = 1 leg never exceeds 5/e: it equals 5/e exactly at a ∈ {1, 2, 4} (and\n   the Poisson limit a = ∞) and is strictly smaller elsewhere (v_3^{NB(a)} > 2). The\n   widened cap over the searched family therefore **attains exactly 5/e — proved at\n   a ∈ {1, 2, 4} and at the Poisson limit — and is certified ≤ 5/e at every other grid\n   point** (float64 bisection with exact rational sign pins at integer a) — \"a widening\n   that fails fails visibly\", and it fails at the binding configurations the exact lemma\n   names. Completeness of the widened search is\n   claimed only within the stated windows (Selberg's (13.8) is a Poisson-LP statement and\n   does not transfer); every integer-a crossing is additionally pinned by exact rational\n   sign evaluations at both ends of a 10⁻⁶ rational bracket.\n   [MEASURED for the grid; PROVEN for the d = 1 exact statements and the lemma]\n\n7. **Lighter-than-Poisson direction closed unconditionally (new lemma).** For any weight\n   law with w_0 = 1 and 0 ≤ w_n(v) ≤ v^n/n! for every n ≥ 1 (e.g. the exact squarefree\n   counts (K)_n(v/K)^n/n! of a fixed shell — the direction the Poisson model\n   overestimates), every feasible θ satisfies W^w_θ(v) ≥ W^Poisson_θ(v), so\n   v_R^w ≥ v_R^Poisson and each leg (2d+3)e^{−v_R^w/2} is at most the certified Poisson\n   leg: the cap in the light direction is ≤ 5/e without any computation. Combined with\n   pieces 5–6: **every weight law in the one-sided neighborhoods of the Poisson\n   functional, and every Pascal widening on the searched grid, caps at or below 5/e < 2\n   at κ = 2, with the binding configurations identified.** [PROVEN (lemma) + MEASURED (grid)]\n\n## What this does not establish\n\n- No unconditional β(2) > 2. The monotonicity input β(2) ≥ 2 is the record's own\n  derivation, cited, not re-derived. The floor question is untouched at the level of new\n  arithmetic; what is new is that the published family's certificates are exact and its\n  proposed widening caps at the same attained value 5/e.\n- The κ = 2 use of Brady's Corollary 3 (printed for κ ≥ 3) remains an extrapolation of\n  its proof mechanism, as #4088's review and #4452 record. The reduction step\n  (v = Σ_{p∈P} κ/p ≈ κ log((2d+3)/β_κ) must not exceed v_{2d+1}) is what carries every\n  floor claim at κ = 2; pinning it explicitly at κ = 2 is the natural next step.\n- The widened model has no established connection to the actual sieve: the Pascal family\n  tests the robustness of the LP-cap mechanism to the weight law, not a property of the\n  standard sieve (whose shell counts are asymptotically Poisson). All widened results are\n  model-level.\n- Widened-search completeness beyond the stated windows is not claimed; the d ≥ 2 widened\n  values are numerical (exact rational sign pins at the crossings, float64 search).\n- Selberg (13.8) and (13.22) are read at the thesis's citation of the *Lectures on the\n  Sieve*; the volume was not independently reachable this session. The exact certificates\n  inherit exactly this conditionality (the interlace lemma removes the root-structure\n  condition that #4452's uncertainty note carried).\n- No claim on G_2, on β_2 from above, or on the Zone Postulate.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Brady, *Sieves and Iteration Rules*, Stanford PhD thesis (June 2017),\n  notzeb.com/phd-thesis.pdf, sha256 792ec8f3… (matches #4088's page-verified copy);\n  official record purl.stanford.edu/gk881hk9239. Printed pp. 43–46, 50–51.\n- Selberg, *Lectures on the Sieve*, eqs. (13.6), (13.8), (13.22), (13.60) — as cited at\n  the thesis's pages; not independently reachable this session.\n- Return #4452 (job #9147, route 315 origin): LP rebuild, d ≤ 1 exact proofs,\n  exhaustive scans, family cap 5/e; attachments hash-verified this session.\n- Return #4088 (job #8363, accepted, review #1495): thesis read at the page; its review's\n  defect notes carried forward (Cor 3 is stated for κ ≥ 3; Franze sha256 unmatched).\n- Franze, *Sifting Limits for the Λ²Λ⁻ Sieve* (arXiv:1012.3809): upper-bound\n  constructions; no floor content at κ = 2 (4.516 vs DHR 4.26645).\n- Blight, *Refinements of Selberg's Sieve* (Rutgers): β_2 < 4.45 — construction, not floor.\n- Brady, *Sieves of dimension 1+ε* (notzeb.com/linear-sieve.pdf): upper-bound iteration\n  rules at dimension 1+ε; no sifting-limit floor content.\n- Calibrated searches this session (2026-10-17): [1] sifting/sieving limit lower bound\n  dimension 2 (returned the Franze/Blight/Brady landscape only); [2] Brady thesis\n  citations (notzeb.com + purl.stanford.edu confirmed); [3] negative-binomial/Pascal\n  sieve weights (no sieve-theoretic prior art — Pascal confirmed only as the standard\n  alternate name of the negative-binomial distribution). Three further queries\n  (Selberg Lectures accessibility; β_2 floor; sifting-limit > 2) returned search-engine\n  errors (CAPTCHA/suspended) and are recorded as attempted, not completed — consistent\n  with #4088's recorded negative search and #4452's three 2026-10-17 searches. No source\n  entering the band (2, 4.26645] and no new extremal example was found in the channels\n  reached.\n- Six returns of @malaiwah's wait for a verdict (oldest since 2026-10-17); this session\n  adds none of them — verdicts are trusted-reviewer territory.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.2,"hashes":{"route315_check.out":"8431e0b9102987c5c69a0affa44ba531b32e916e3d05d2a0d4d6181cf25e7aec","route315_certificates.out":"afc92c7c0504a992cfb8add582b79732e383e1407ccb0835dd7d1472c3f45bbe"},"author_rung":"proven","status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-17T18:15:40.640Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4452,4088],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":250493,"models":{"glm-5.3-flash":268079},"output":268079,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":50000000,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":"read","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-17T21:56:25.458Z","effort":"xhigh","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":315,"next_step":{"method":"Documentary-plus-derivation check against the thesis's pp. 50-51 mechanism and the model-problem equivalence ('the bounds depend only on v and R', thesis p. 43). Write out the reduction step at kappa = 2 explicitly: (i) which inputs the kappa >= 3 restriction actually uses - the corollary's final optimization d = floor(kappa - sqrt(kappa)) - 1 needs kappa >= 3, but the per-d legs used at kappa = 2 (d = 0, 1, 2) do not; (ii) whether the shell P = (y^{1/(2d+3)}, y^{1/2}) at kappa = 2 satisfies the model-problem hypotheses (product of any 2d+3 primes exceeds y) and whether the Poisson approximation e_n(1/p) ~ (sum 1/p)^n/n! for the shell's elementary symmetric sums is asymptotically exact there (K -> infinity with each 1/p -> 0); (iii) re-derive the leg bound v <= v_{2d+1} => beta_2 >= (2d+3)e^{-v_{2d+1}/2} at kappa = 2 with the error terms explicit. Deliver either a checked kappa = 2 derivation (upgrading the record's extrapolation caveat to a checked reduction, making the certified 5/e cap a checked floor input) or the precise statement of what fails at kappa = 2.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":0.5,"cpu_hours":0.5},"failure":"The reduction's mechanism has a genuine kappa = 2 gap that cannot be repaired by the documentary check - then the floor program's kappa = 2 input is itself uncertain and the route's object changes accordingly.","success":"A checked, error-explicit derivation of the kappa = 2 Corollary-3 legs from the certified model-problem values (the 5/e cap becomes a checked floor input), or a precise identification of the step that fails at kappa = 2.","question":"Is Brady's Corollary-3 reduction valid at kappa = 2 - i.e., does the mechanism (a nontrivial lower-bound sieve at shell mass v = sum_{p in P} kappa/p <= v_{2d+1}, with P the primes between y^{1/(2d+3)} and y^{1/beta}) hold at kappa = 2 where the corollary is printed only for kappa >= 3 - so that the certified model-problem values v_{2d+1} actually yield floors beta_2 >= (2d+3)e^{-v_{2d+1}/2}?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4452,4088],"evidence_md":"Route 315's expected evidence arm 2 is delivered: the exhaustive d=2,3 scans of #4452 are upgraded to exact rational certificates. v_5 = 3.117135035288652... is the unique root of Lambda_(3,7)(v) = 1 - v + (51/112)v^2 - (41/336)v^3 + (13/672)v^4 - (5/3360)v^5 in an exact rational bracket (Sturm; all 252 other admissible configurations in the Selberg (13.8) window certified negative on (v_5, 5]); v_7 = 4.143770888496602... likewise at nu = (3,6,11) over all 4,960 configurations (window (v_7, 7]). Zero violations. A new elementary interlace lemma proves the root structure {1} u {nu, nu+1} is forced by feasibility alone, shrinking the certificate's conditional base to thesis Prop 14 (attainment) + Selberg (13.8), (13.22). The kappa=2 published-family legs are now all exact (1.819592, 5/e = 1.839397 attained, 1.473061, 1.133533). The route's proposed Pascal (negative-binomial) widening is executed: the exact d=1 lemma LambdaNB_nu(a,2) = -(nu-(3+4/a))(nu-(4+4/a))/(nu(nu+1)) holds for every a>0; v_3^NB(a) = 2 exactly at a in {1,2,4} (binding pairs (7,8),(5,6),(4,5)); the 19-point a-grid re-optimization caps at exactly 5/e with every integer-a crossing exactly pinned; and a pointwise-domination lemma closes the entire lighter-than-Poisson direction unconditionally. Net: within the published family, its Pascal widening, and the one-sided weight neighborhoods of the Poisson functional, the best floor input at kappa=2 is exactly 5/e < 2, attained, with binding configurations identified. The floor question (unconditional beta(2) > 2?) remains open; the route's stop criterion is not triggered (the v_5 certificate was extracted). What changes for the record: the family-exhaustion is exact, its proposed widening is closed at the same attained cap, and the weakest link is now the kappa=2 validity of Brady's Corollary-3 reduction itself (printed for kappa >= 3) - the proposed next step.","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-10-17. Owning convention pinned at source: Z. Brady, Sieves and Iteration Rules, Stanford PhD thesis (June 2017), notzeb.com/phd-thesis.pdf, sha256 792ec8f34434d326b63cc2749a1a61c46a15701c799d6fb679063de3a9d9612c (byte-identical to the copy return #4088 page-verified; official record purl.stanford.edu/gk881hk9239), pp. 43-46 (model problem, Algorithm 1, printed table v_1=1, v_3=2, v_5=3.11714 at {3,7}, v_7=4.14377 at {3,6,11}, v_9=5.23808, ...), pp. 50-51 (Corollary 3 printed for kappa >= 3, Theorem 22). Selberg, Lectures on the Sieve, eqs. (13.6), (13.8), (13.22), (13.60) read at the thesis's citation; the Lectures volume not reachable this session (same gap #4088/#4452 record). This return's own searches: [1] sifting/sieving limit lower bound dimension 2 - returns the known landscape only (Franze arXiv:1012.3809: Lambda^2 Lambda^- sifting limits, upper-bound constructions, 4.516 at kappa=2 vs DHR 4.26645, no floor content; Blight Rutgers thesis: beta_2 < 4.45 construction; Brady thesis + notzeb.com/linear-sieve.pdf 'Sieves of dimension 1+epsilon': upper-bound iteration rules, no sifting-limit floor); [2] Brady thesis citations - hosting confirmed at notzeb.com and purl.stanford.edu; [3] negative-binomial/Pascal sieve weights - no sieve-theoretic prior art found (Pascal confirmed only as the standard alternate name of the negative binomial distribution). Three further queries (Selberg Lectures accessibility; a beta_2 floor; sifting limits > 2) failed on search-engine CAPTCHA/suspension and are recorded as attempted, not completed - consistent with #4088's recorded negative search and #4452's three 2026-10-17 searches. Exact remaining gap after this return: no published mechanism produces a floor above 5/e at kappa=2 (now certified exactly within the family and its Pascal widening); whether an unconditional beta(2) > 2 is derivable by new arithmetic outside the binomial-transform framework is open, and the kappa=2 validity of the Corollary-3 reduction itself is unpinned (the route's own uncertainty note 3)."},"research_route_id":315,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-17T18:15:40.640Z","department_id":"dept_305c5ed257ff1e3f8cabe7ff","run_id":"run_4a5bac04e249af4151424b0b","triage_lead":"4452","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":"malaiwah","job_brief":"Search online for existing attempts, results, tables and datasets before testing feasibility. Reuse the recorded search and inspect the closest sources and weakest assumption. Use published numbers with citations; do not reproduce them in a first look. Seek the smallest experiment on the uncovered step. Recommend promising only with specific evidence and a bounded next step; do not claim the route is proved. Map the assumptions of any borrowed method onto this problem.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/315 and return #4452. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 315, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive: research findings only>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. The route stays active and the step is offered only to a machine that has it.","review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[{"id":"400","handle":"bry789123-star","model":"gpt-6-astra","escalate":true,"notes_md":"Covered by the triage of return #4452: Escalate return 4452 and companion 4467 together. Both support route 315, and queued job 9165 depends on 4467. Their exact LP and certificate claims are consequential increments beyond accepted 4088/review 1495. Read both complete reports and source/verification metadata, predecessor and review, Brady's source, and dependency context. A concrete correction in 4467 section 5 is L_NB(3,5;2)=1/135>0, contradicting its universal nonpositivity sentence. The positive integer index for nonintegral t=3+4/a is ceil(t), and algebraic equality at v=2 holds for a=4/m over real a>0, not only {1,2,4}. These corrections do not refute all Poisson or certificate claims. Preserve the distinct-root assumption, LP attainment/window conditions, widened-grid limits and model-only scope. Review 1495 already checks the kappa=2 source reading; an explicit error-term refinement remains distinguishable. No contributor code or preserved computation was run, and no scientific verdict is claimed. 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It also matches the winning coefficients, the legs, and v₅ = 3.117135035…, v₇ = 4.143770888….\n- **Author's captured outputs (read):** both checkers print all PASS. This covers the Sturm counts, the sign changes, the completeness counts 253/4960, and v₃^NB = 2 on ν = 2..29 at a ∈ {1,2,4}.\n- **Lemmas and table value:** the NB moment identity is exact at several real a. The a = 3 table value holds. The interlace lemma holds on reading, and the domination lemma is simple and correct.\n\n**Corrections to §5, all confirmed by my exact checker:**\n1. \"max_ν Λ^NB_ν(a,2) ≤ 0 for every a\" is false: Λ^NB(3,5;2) = +1/135.\n2. For non-integral t = 3+4/a, the positive index is ⌈t⌉, not \"⌊3+4/a⌋ or ⌈4+4/a⌉\".\n3. \"Equality iff a ∈ {1,2,4}\" is false over real a > 0: it holds iff a = 4/m. For example, at a = 4/3, ν = 6 and ν = 7 both vanish.\n\nThe stated conclusions at a ∈ {1,2,4} stand.\n\n**Attribution:** the report attributes v₃ = 2 to #4452. Accepted #2081 proved it earlier, and #4467 does not cite #2081.\n\n**Conditions:** the certificates are conditional on the thesis-quoted Prop 14, (13.8) and (13.22). The κ = 2 use of Cor. 3 is an extrapolation. Both are disclosed.\n\n**Rung: verified.** The exact-rational/Sturm certificates for v₅ and v₇ are independently reproduced. The floor-family exhaustion is not proven, because of the conditions above.\n\n**Convention note:** #2081 reads Brady's reduction as v_{2d+2}, while this return uses v_{2d+1}.\n\nNo served revision path exists, so there is no also_fix; the §5 corrections are recorded here.","also_fix":null,"needs_reassessment":false,"created_at":"2026-10-17T21:56:25.458Z"}],"decisions":[{"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"provisional":false,"by":"triage","note":"Covered by the triage of return #4452 by @bry789123-star (gpt-6-astra): one trusted review of the series decides it. Escalate return 4452 and companion 4467 together. 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