{"id":4471,"job_id":9135,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":2,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #9135 — route 311: the first-slot dial, read profile by profile\n\n## 1. Assignment and what was held open\nRoute 311 asks whether the lucky/origin first-slot exponent moves: (A) does the lower-bound shifted-prime\nsieve run at Pascadi's Theorem 5.4 level (up to 5/8 − ε, both signs), giving `F(p#) ≪_ε p^{16/5+ε}`;\n(B) at what rung does BF 1996's convolution remark (θ < 0.3, `[F-G]` Lemma 6) put the exponent 10/3;\n(C) complete the class-uniformity verdict to BF §4. Predecessor: #4438 (transfer + the 0.3/2-7 print),\nwhich carries #4419's q=1 reading. Stop condition in the contract: profile conditions fail at the\nneeded level and `[F-G]` Lemma 6 does not support θ<0.3 ⇒ dial rests at the proven 7/2 with both\nobstructions on the route record.\n\n## 2. What was done\n- Outstanding-work check over all 833 issued attempts: one unresolved, this run's own attempt\n  (job 9135); everything older is `submitted-verified` or `superseded`; 0 live processes.\n  No recovery needed; nothing open besides this return.\n- Setup per protocol §framework: registration 200 on `start?time=1task`, identity/effort from this\n  session's own chat dir, scrubber and submission path exercised by `sah.py complete` (see §6).\n- Fetched arXiv e-print `2505.00653v1` (tar, 47,790 B) and read Theorem 5.4 and its proof of\n  Corollary 1.4 at source; `main.tex` pinned by sha256 `ee37d0d2…db8fe`.\n- Wrote and ran `check_profile_9135.py` (exact rationals, output `check_profile_9135.out`): the\n  profile function, its bands, the fixed-point/uniform-level analysis, the level→θ→exponent transfer\n  table, and an independent small-p sieve check of the transfer.\n\n## 3. Findings\n### (A) The 16/5 floor is not implied — the level is a function of the factorization profile\nTheorem 5.4 gives `D = x^{ϑ0}` with `ϑ0 ≤ ϑ(t1) − ε`, `ϑ(t) = min((1+t)/2,(2−3t)/2)`, where `t1` is the\nexponent of the largest prime factor of `d`; for `r ≥ 3, t1 ≤ 1/4` one may use `ϑ(t1,t2,t3)`. The\nmaximum `5/8` is attained **only at `t1 = 1/4`**. Exact values: `ϑ(1/4)=5/8`, `ϑ(1/5)=ϑ(4/15)=3/5`,\n`ϑ(1/7)=ϑ(2/7)=4/7`, `ϑ(2/5)=2/5`, `ϑ(1/3)=1/2`, `ϑ(1/2)=1/4`, `ϑ(3/5)=1/10`, `ϑ(5/8)=1/16`.\nBecause the profile `t1 = δ` is present in any support that reaches `D = x^δ`, and\n`ϑ(δ) = (2−3δ)/2 < δ` for all `δ > 2/5`, **no single level above 1/2 is certified for the whole\nwell-factorable support**. Hence \"both signs at 5/8 − ε\" cannot be applied as one level, and\n`5/8 ⟹ θ<5/16 ⟹ F ≪ p^{16/5}` is a single-level reading of a profile-wise theorem. Pascadi's own\nproof of Corollary 1.4 confirms the correct use: it \"simply amounts to taking θ = 0 rather than\nθ = 7/32\" in Lichtman's §7 integrals — `ϑ(·)` enters as the level *function* and buys a constant\n(3.20254 vs 3.229), not an exponent. Base levels the preprint states for the weights: `4/7 − ε` for\n`λ̃^−` (BFI Thm 10), `3/5 − ε` for `λ̃^+`.\nOwed, now scoped: the lower-bound (`f(s)`) analog of Lichtman §7 with `ϑ(·)`. Until it is run the\nproven first-slot exponent stays `7/2+ε` (#4438).\n\n### (B) The convolution rung is exactly 10/3 (level 3/5)\n`θ < 0.3 ⟺ δ = 2θ = 3/5` under `s = δ/θ > 2`, so BF's print puts the first slot at `p^{10/3+ε}` — the\nsame rung as Maynard's triply-well-factorable `3/5`, strictly better than `7/2` and strictly worse than\n`16/5`. It comes from the vector sieve's convolution, not from the profile theorem, so (A)'s objection\ndoes not touch it. Caveat: the `[F-G]` text was not read here (no PDF/OCR on this box), so this is the\nface-value reading of the printed θ < 0.3, not a re-derivation of Lemma 6's level.\n\n### (C) Class-uniformity to BF §4\nNot completed: needs the BF 1996 page images/text (numdam scan) and this machine has no PDF text\nextraction or OCR (`pdftotext`, `pdftoppm`, `tesseract`, PIL absent; no `pip`). #4438's structural\nargument (incidental, not structural) stands unchanged and is not re-litigated here.\n\n## 4. Transfer check (independent of #4438)\nFor `p = 7,11,13,17,19`, sieving `{q+2 : q ≤ z^{1/θ} prime}` by primes `≤ z = p` at θ = 1/4 and 2/7:\nsurvivor counts 112/48, 481/174, 589/262, 553/553, 522/522; in every cell the least survivor equals\n`F(p#)` (11, 11, 17, 29, 29) and is `≤ x`. This reproduces the transfer direction and the `s ≥ 2`\nside condition that gives exponent `2/δ`.\n\n## 5. What it changes on the route\n- The route's \"mechanism floor 16/5\" (recorded in #4438 item 3) is withdrawn as a *proven* floor: the\n  best exponent the cited level supports, read correctly, is a constant-level refinement on the\n  upper-bound side; on the lower-bound side the level is profile-dependent and the exponent needs the\n  §7 analog. The dial's proven position stays at `7/2` (BFI 4/7, #4438), with `10/3` available only at\n  the face value of BF's θ<0.3 print.\n- The `5/8` figure remains meaningful exactly on the band `t1 ≈ 1/4` (`{ϑ≥3/5} = [1/5,4/15]`,\n  `{ϑ≥4/7} = [1/7,2/7]`): that band, not the whole support, is what a future exponent gain must exploit.\n\n## 6. Reproducibility, evidence, submission\n- `work/src/main.tex` sha256 `ee37d0d2…db8fe` (e-print of 2505.00653v1); `work/brief.md` is the served\n  assignment; `check_profile_9135.py` + `.out` regenerate every number above in < 1 s, exact rationals.\n- Payload validated with `sah.py check-payload`, submitted with `sah.py complete` for this run and\n  attempt, receipt saved as `work/complete.out`; then `sah.py outstanding` and `sah.py reconcile`.\n- Newest PROGRESS/HANDOFF entries written after the receipt; no credentials or transcript text in any\n  published file (scrubbed via `sah.py scrub`).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"report_gb.md":"9ba73d456a6c5d39c17b439469fe8e884f3a0f2809f42bbccbceff1b26cf26ae","evidence_gb.md":"ebcde926cb361aa57aac04fd1b07d0f2f3eefdc5818ef4581bda141bfc0bd373","prior_art_gb.md":"04e508e2a847b2ae22d852c516ea61c3133b758ac0cbb35379c51200fee6114b","transcript_gb.md":"a276cdd0036198a9a5ed0b89429ea3a2eed073894d75914118f9928fdcba5287","next_step_gb.json":"2d0f514973beabb6f266af413fd4bcc1337889203c808389a360a0aa8226fee7","check_profile_9135.py":"7f338062bb79a2d1b10cc5d4803361d57261f89343e96f46dbca1eb66f10f985","check_profile_9135.out":"5ed23d73b540e2f3b70a70adcb4c28f4fbc21e240ca821105c4ea6ceed4f4315"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T18:59:52.029Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4438,4419],"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":null,"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":"2026-10-17T19:00:29.857Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":311,"next_step":{"method":"Translate the lower-bound linear sieve into Lichtman's arXiv:2309.08522 ss.7.1-7.2 integral optimization with the sign flipped: replace the upper-bound F(s) by the lower-bound f(s)=2e^gamma log(s-1)/s (s=log D/log z>2), and replace the single level by vartheta(t)=min((1+t)/2,(2-3t)/2) (with the (t1,t2,t3) refinement when r>=3), as Pascadi's Corollary 1.4 proof does with theta=0. Partition the weight support by profile t1 (largest prime factor exponent), truncate lambda^-(d) where vartheta(t1) < log D/log x, and maximise 2/delta over the admissible delta with the s>2 side condition at the dimensions that survive. Deliver the resulting exponent with explicit constant and a table of the profile-wise sifting limits; a finite computation on the preprint's own displays (no new distribution input).","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":4},"failure":"The profile-truncated lower-bound sieve's sifting limit stays <= 4/7 at every admissible band, so no exponent below 7/2 follows; or the profile-wise integrals cannot be closed without a new distribution input for profiles outside [1/7,2/7], which is then recorded as the obstruction (dial rests at the proven 7/2).","success":"A proven F(p#) <<_eps p^(e+eps) with e < 7/2 (e.g. 10/3 or 16/5 with the correct profile restriction and constant), or a proof that every band-restricted lower-bound weight set has level <= 4/7, which settles the dial at 7/2 definitively.","question":"With Theorem 5.4's level as the profile function vartheta(t1)=min((1+t1)/2,(2-3t1)/2) (and vartheta(t1,t2,t3) for r>=3, t1<=1/4), does the lower-bound (f(s)-side) linear sieve on {q+2 : q<=x prime} beat BFI's level 4/7, i.e. give F(p#) <<_eps p^(e+eps) for some e < 7/2; and what is the best exponent the band {t1 : vartheta(t1) > 4/7} = [1/7,2/7] supports for the lower-bound weights?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["python3","scipy"],"required_sources":["web"]},"depends_on":[4438,4419],"evidence_md":"Route 311, job #9135, outcome **progress**. The obligation has two halves; (A) is answered\nnegatively as stated, (B) is settled arithmetically.\n\n**(A) The 5/8 level is profile-conditional, so `F(p#) ≪ p^{16/5+ε}` does not follow.**\nRead at source (arXiv e-print `2505.00653v1`, `main.tex` sha256 `ee37d0d2…db8fe`), Theorem 5.4\n(`thm:primes-ls-weights`) gives, for weights of **either sign**,\n`∑_{b=p1…pr} ∑_{d=bc≤D, c|P(p_r)} λ̃^±(d)(π(x;d,a) − π(x)/φ(d)) ≪ x/log^A x` with `D = x^{ϑ0}`,\nprovided `ϑ0 ≤ ϑ(t1) − ε`, where `t_i = log P_i/log x` are the exponents of the prime factors of `d`\nand `ϑ(t) = min((1+t)/2, (2−3t)/2) ∈ [1/2, 5/8]` (eq. 5.1); if `r ≥ 3, t1 ≤ 1/4` one may instead use\n`ϑ(t1,t2,t3)` (eq. 5.2) and reach `5/8`. The level is therefore a **function of the factorization\nprofile of `d`**, not a uniform `5/8`: `ϑ(t) = 5/8` only at `t = 1/4` (the preprint says \"achieves its\nmaximum (only) at t = 1/4\"), and the level lives on a band `{t : ϑ(t) ≥ L} = [max(0,2L−1), (2−2L)/3]`.\n\nExact values (work/check_profile_9135.out §1–2): `ϑ(1/4)=5/8`; `ϑ(1/5)=ϑ(4/15)=3/5`;\n`ϑ(1/7)=ϑ(2/7)=4/7`; `ϑ(2/5)=2/5`; `ϑ(1/3)=1/2`; `ϑ(1/2)=1/4`; `ϑ(3/5)=1/10`; `ϑ(5/8)=1/16`.\nBands: `{ϑ≥3/5}=[1/5,4/15]` (width 0.067), `{ϑ≥4/7}=[1/7,2/7]`, `{ϑ≥5/8}={1/4}`.\n\nConsequence: a single level `D = x^δ` for the whole well-factorable support is certified only if\n`δ ≤ ϑ(t1)` for every profile present, and the profile `t1 = δ` (a prime factor of size `x^δ`) is\npresent, with `ϑ(δ) = (2−3δ)/2 < δ` for every `δ > 2/5`. So **no level above 1/2 is profile-uniform**;\nin particular \"5/8 − ε for both signs\" does not license one level, and the chain\n`5/8 ⟹ θ<5/16 ⟹ F(p#) ≪ p^{16/5}` is a single-level reading of a profile-wise theorem — not proved.\nThis matches how Pascadi himself uses the result: the proof of Corollary 1.4 says it \"simply amounts to\ntaking θ = 0 rather than θ = 7/32\" in Lichtman's §7 integrals, i.e. `ϑ(·)` is fed in as the level\n*function* and buys a constant (3.20254 vs 3.229, 0.8%), not an exponent. The base levels the preprint\nstates for the sieve weights themselves are `4/7−ε` for `λ̃^−` (BFI Thm 10) and `3/5−ε` for `λ̃^+`.\n\nOwed and now precisely scoped: the **lower-bound (`f(s)`) analog of Lichtman §7** with `ϑ(·)` as the\nlevel function. Until it is run, the best proven first-slot exponent on this route stays BFI's\n`7/2+ε` (#4438), not `16/5`.\n\n**(B) The convolution rung is exactly 10/3, i.e. level 3/5.** `θ<0.3 ⟺ δ = 2θ = 3/5` under the\ntransfer's `s = δ/θ > 2`, so the printed remark puts the first slot at `F(p#) ≪_ε p^{10/3+ε}` — the\nsame rung as Maynard's triply-well-factorable `3/5`, better than `7/2` and worse than `16/5`. It comes\nfrom the vector sieve's convolution, not from the profile theorem, so the objection above does not\ntouch it.\n\n**Machine check** (independent of #4438, `check_profile_9135.py` §6): p = 7,11,13,17,19 at θ = 1/4 and\n2/7, sieve on `{q+2 : q≤z^{1/θ} prime}` by primes ≤ z: survivor counts 112/48, 481/174, 589/262,\n553/553, 522/522, and in every case the least survivor equals `F(p#)` (11, 11, 17, 29, 29) and is\n`≤ x = z^{1/θ}`: the transfer direction and the `s ≥ 2` constraint reproduce.\n\n**Limitation (named, not hidden):** the `[F-G] Lemma 6` text itself was not read here — the numdam\nscan needs PDF text/OCR and this box has no `pdftotext`/`pdftoppm`/`tesseract`/PIL and no `pip`. So\nthe 10/3 rung is the face-value reading of BF's printed `θ<0.3`, and the display-by-display check of\nBF §4 for the general class `gcd(a(a−2),q)=1` (route question 3) is likewise not completed.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — route 311, job #9135 (2026-10-17, updated search)\n\n## Sources reached this session\n- **Pascadi, arXiv:2505.00653v1** — fetched as e-print source (`/e-print/2505.00653v1`,\n  47,790 B tar; `main.tex` 2,623 lines, sha256 `ee37d0d2c5f026ddccd2f890f01d24d910fcf961588b0393215b3a7aa63db8fe`).\n  Read at source: Theorem 5.4 (`thm:primes-ls-weights`, l.1825–1841), eqs. (5.1)–(5.2)\n  (l.1810–1822), §\"linear sieve weights with special factors\" opening (base levels `4/7−ε`,\n  `3/5−ε` for `λ̃^−`, `λ̃^+`), Prop. `fact-well-fact`, and the proof of Corollary 1.4\n  (l.2023–2045: \"taking θ = 0 rather than θ = 7/32\", table of `G_n`, `3.20254 Π_2(x)`).\n- **BF 1996 (Brüdern–Fouvry, *Le crible à vecteurs*, Compositio Math. 102 (1996) 337–355)**: not\n  re-read. The hash-matched reading of pp. 339–340 (numdam PDF sha256 `74b80510…f305993`) and the\n  `q=1` print (θ<1/4, θ<2/7, θ<0.3 via `[F-G]` Lemma 6) remain as recorded in #4438 and are cited,\n  not re-derived. `[F-G]` = Fouvry–Grupp, *On the switching principle in sieve theory*, J. reine\n  angew. Math. 370 (1986); **its Lemma 6 was not read here** (scan, no OCR on this box).\n- **Lichtman arXiv:2309.08522 §6–7** and **ANT 19:1 (2025) §5**: cited through Pascadi's own\n  comparison (\"our Thm 5.4 corresponds to Lichtman Prop. 6.6\"; Cor. 1.4 = Lichtman §7.1–7.2 with\n  θ=0). Not re-fetched.\n- **Maynard arXiv:2006.07088**; **BFI Acta Math. 156 (1986) 203–251 Thm 10**: cited as in #4438.\n\n## What is new relative to the record (novelty of this return)\nNo channel reached this session records the **profile caveat**: that Thm 5.4's `5/8` is attained only\nat `t1 = 1/4` and that no single level above `1/2` is certified uniformly over the well-factorable\nsupport (arithmetic from the theorem's own displays, `check_profile_9135.py`). The route record\n(#4438 item 3) states the inference \"5/8 for both signs ⟹ θ<5/16 ⟹ p^{16/5}\" without it; the\npreprint's own Cor. 1.4 proof shows the result is consumed as a level *function* in an integral\noptimization. Channels: arXiv e-print/API, numdam abstract, ADS/msp abstracts, OpenAlex (as recorded\nin #4438 — not re-run here).\n\n## Exact remaining gap\n1. Lower-bound side: run Lichtman's §7 optimization with the lower-bound sieve function `f(s)`\n   (`s = log D/log z`, `f(s)=2e^γ log(s−1)/s`, `s>2`) and `ϑ(·)` as the level function; decide whether\n   any band-restricted lower-bound weight set exceeds BFI's `4/7`, and with what constant. This is a\n   finite integral/LP computation on the preprint's own displays, no new distribution input needed.\n2. Source side: read `[F-G]` Lemma 6 (level for the localized `{p1p2+2}`, `p1≈x^{2/5}`, `p2≈x^{3/5}`)\n   and BF §4 display-by-display for the general class `a`, `gcd(a(a−2),q)=1`. Needs OCR/PDF text of\n   1986/1996 scans — unavailable on this machine.\n3. Nothing here is MathSciNet-backed; the absence claims stay bounded."},"research_route_id":311,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_4737e0e1398a2befd0e049f5","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":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/311 and return #4438. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 311, 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>]}. 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