{"id":4581,"job_id":9384,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 322 at 29#: the extremal twin-free run does not collapse, but its top thins (rung `measured`)\n\nJob #9384, route 322, lane `dir-558`, first look. Rung: **measured** (exact finite computation,\nrange stated, independent checker). Builds on #4568 and copies its object without change.\n\n## 1. What was measured (definitions unchanged from #4568)\n\nFor one full period `P = x#` of the twin-pair wheel,\n`A(x#) = { m in [0,P) : gcd(m, x#) = 1 and gcd(m+2, x#) = 1 }`; a position is *admissible* iff both\n`m` and `m+2` are coprime to `x#`. The census reports the **cyclic runs of non-admissible positions**:\n`L_max`, `N_max` (multiplicity of `L_max`), `d5 = top1 − top5`, the top-20 lengths, the tail histogram\nfor `L >= L_max − 6`, and a **matched-density memoryless control** (Bernoulli mask at `p = 1 − θ`,\n`θ = |A|/P`, over the same period, three frozen seeds). `h2(x#) := L_max + 1` is the paired\nJacobsthal value for the fixed difference `d = 2`. No definition, domain, band or endpoint was edited.\n\n## 2. Instrument gate G0 (`stop_if`) — passed\n\nThe assigned stop condition was: reproduce `h2(17#) = 108` and the 23# row exactly, else report nothing\nat 29#. Two instruments were cross-checked on ten fields each (`P`, `|A|`, `run_count`, `h2`, `L_max`,\n`N_max`, `top20`, `d5`, `top_spread`, tail histogram):\n\n| instrument | 17# | 19# | 23# | spare |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| predecessor numpy path (`census_ib.py`, copied verbatim) | `107/108`, `N_max 20`, `d5 0`, `\\|A\\| 22275` | `149/150`, `20`, `0`, `378675` | `203/204`, `4`, `6`, `7952175` | 0 mismatches vs `results_ib.json` |\n| new `cw_id.c` block-walk (2^B-position blocks, run state carried, cyclic merge) | identical | identical | identical | 0 mismatches vs the numpy path |\n\nThe three control values also reproduce the predecessor's exactly (`224/249/226`, `337/435/374`,\n`450/456/442`). `census_id.py` asserts all of this and records it in `results_id.json` under `g0`.\n**G0 holds; the 29# read is reported.**\n\n## 3. The 29# row (new)\n\n`P = 29# = 6 469 693 230`, `|A| = 214 708 725`, `run_count = |A|` (each run ends at exactly one\nadmissible position), `Σ run lengths = P − |A| = 6 254 984 505`:\n\n| quantity | value |\n|---|---|\n| `L_max` | **257** |\n| `h2 = L_max + 1` | **258** |\n| `N_max` | **2** (starts `1 205 437 110`, `5 264 255 862`) |\n| `d5 = top1 − top5` | **18** |\n| top-20 lengths | `257, 257, 239×8, 233×7, 227×3` |\n| top-40 lengths | `257×2, 239×8, 233×12, 227×18` |\n| tail histogram `L >= 251` | `{257: 2}` — **no run of length 251…256 exists** |\n| control (frozen seeds) | `547 / 570 / 553`, ratio `L_max / max(control) = 0.4509` |\n\n`|A|` also matches the exact integer identity `|A| = Π_{odd p ≤ x} (p−2)`, re-derived independently in\nthe checker for all four rungs.\n\n## 4. Gate verdicts (frozen in the pre-registration before the 29# read)\n\n- **Q1 `N_max >= 2`** — **SURVIVES**, exactly 2. The extremum does **not** collapse onto a single CRT\n  translate at 29#.\n- **Q2 `d5 <= 2`** — **REFUTED** (`d5 = 18`). Ladder: `0, 0, 6, 18`.\n- **Q3 control ratio `< 1`** — **SURVIVES** (`0.4509`). Ladder: `0.430, 0.343, 0.445, 0.451`.\n- **Q4 (descriptive)** `N_max`: `20, 20, 4, 2` (monotone non-increasing); `d5`: `0, 0, 6, 18` (strictly\n  increasing); `L_max/ln x`: `37.77, 50.60, 64.74, 76.32`; `L_max/ln²x`: `13.33, 17.19, 20.65, 22.67`.\n\n## 5. What the answer is\n\nThe assigned question was whether the spectrum *keeps losing translate-degeneracy* to the point that\nthe extremal run is a single lucky configuration — the case that would forbid a smooth-in-`x` run bound\nfor `G_2(x#)`. **It does not reach that case at 29#** (`N_max = 2`), but the trend is consistent and\nnow runs over eight rungs: the multiplicity decays (`20, 20, 4, 2`) while the top spread grows\n(`0, 0, 0, 6, 18`). At 29# the maximum is a two-translate configuration separated by 18 from the fifth\nlargest run and by 18 from the next distinct length (239). So a run bound for `G_2(x#)` is not excluded\nby single-translate degeneracy at any measured rung, but the top of the spectrum is thinning; the\ncollapse case would be `N_max = 1`, still unobserved. **This is not a bound on `G_2` and not a proof of\nanything asymptotic** — it is one more exact rung and the first measurement of the spread's direction.\n\nThe control proportion is remarkably stable (`0.34–0.45`) across a 12 673-fold change of `P`: the wheel\nstays **more uniform than its own density at every rung**, so a bound on the extremal twin-free run\ntaken from counts or densities alone can only **overshoot**. That is the precise premise route\n205/#9352 asked for, now with a fourth point.\n\n## 6. Prior art — a convention correction, not a novelty claim\n\nZiller & Morack (arXiv:1706.03668, Table 1; OEIS A288815) publish `h2(n)` for primorials to\n`p_n <= 73`. **Their `h2` is the maximum over *every* even difference `b − a`; the census statistic\nhere fixes `d = 2`.** Brute force over all even differences at the small rungs (`dmax_id.py`) decides\nthe two conventions:\n\n| `x#` | 5# | 7# | 11# | 13# |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| published `h2` (Ziller & Morack) | 18 | 30 | 66 | 150 |\n| `max` over all even `d` of `L_max(d)+1` | **18** (at `d = 4`) | **30** (at `d = 2`) | **66** (at `d = 82`) | **150** (at `d = 688`) |\n| the `d = 2` slice (this statistic) | 12 | 30 | 42 | 66 |\n\nSo the published table reproduces exactly as \"max over all even differences\" (4/4 rungs), and its\nlater entries are **different quantities** from the `d = 2` ladder: published `192 / 258 / 450 / 570`\nat 17#/19#/23#/29# against `108 / 150 / 204 / 258` here. #4568's note that \"the maximum of the paired\nJacobsthal function is a solved computation to primes ≤ 73\" is true of *that* maximum and does not make\nthe `d = 2` maximum a solved object; the project's own record `G_2(17#) = 108` (#3439) is the `d = 2`\nvalue and is reproduced here. **No novelty is claimed for any maximum**: the `d = 2` maxima at\n17#/19#/23# are reproductions, and the new content of this return is the multiplicity `N_max`, the\nspread `d5`, the tail histogram and the matched-density control at 29#.\n\n## 7. Honest scope and remaining gaps\n\n- Exact and finite: four reported rungs, one new. `h2` values at 17#/19#/23# are **reproductions**.\n- The matched-density control at 29# is a deterministic numpy computation whose *code path* is verified\n  by reproducing the predecessor's three rungs exactly; it is not re-derived by the checker (recorded\n  as a remaining obligation, `check_id.py --control`).\n- The mechanism of the thinning (`N_max` decay, `d5` growth) is **not attributed**; no asymptotic law,\n  no bound on `G_2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude, and no claim that `N_max > 1` persists.\n- A single implementation of the 29# walk exists per instrument (two independent instruments, same\n  result); no third-party rerun of 29# was performed.\n- External search: three arXiv/OEIS lookups (`prior_art_id.md`). The paper's ancillary `psi_2_min.txt`\n  was not fetched (the HTML table and OEIS A288815 gave the values); this supports no absence claim.\n- **9 of @Benjaminsen's returns still wait for a verdict** (5 made on this session's model); nothing is\n  required for them beyond this line.\n\n## 8. Artifacts\n\n`prereg_id.md` (frozen gates, hashed before the read) · `census_id.py` → `results_id.json`\n(`self_sha256 33f5cbe5b3b1190f1ee360e600501b51c620ab324a3579edfd88d40dc14b4096`) ·\n`cw_id.c` (producer) · `cwchk_id.c` + `cwchk29_id.json` (independent bit-level pass) ·\n`witness_id.py` → `witnesses_id.json` (2 maximizer + 40 top-40 run witnesses, each verified by\n`math.gcd`) · `check_id.py` → `check_id.out` (all checks pass) and `check_id.corrupt.all.out`\n(12/12 mutation controls decisive) · `dmax_id.py` → `dmax_id.json` · `recipe_id.md`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.15,"hashes":{"cw_id.c":"a4677598699c3715279d3fc6668ba9cbe552242139969b65a3732e80fab3ca15","cwchk_id.c":"e3a06f3ff690de63936071dcb334989acd25c0f9f3afcd637f818d658c23c163","dmax_id.py":"6906024a7cc8cc6558ccc05b3f8d59cd5518678fc670c541e8910d8bb52500e9","check_id.py":"d869326afa6699ff777fa4eda1c807f90426ad5dd605bffb283bfc58cc6bf9b6","dmax_id.out":"f64ca80f2a085c04cee33e16f2ca3ee5de37d8a540fee6e575cddab3b1096a2f","census_id.py":"67b1711349aacd52a05adbd098ae18be7abb071e6fef0ef23882d6508842513e","check_id.out":"b3dc1a14114d009b22ceef2edd963b56984fa95928365d0c51c4f4952fb9d2e9","cw29_id.json":"39ae7cc6d25c6c6eb4747423ff4657eaa25bfb00046fa2383b2eae7b6fbe42e8","dmax_id.json":"046a3e6be25d987711487a511427386cae4e9f5bab23bb448a9deab57ffdf7fa","prereg_id.md":"f79553d7d4c090a11b9560f8f97e351678ffaa1d6a7624012bb310896edc7307","recipe_id.md":"3e0d7379cabe0cfc7291f166a691d844fa80f705da403e106203664e617110a2","report_id.md":"fa5169a33d81f77a6a86c8dccd236335f2c8f1ab8216177a57039a4849caa76f","census_id.out":"2ed7a4d169df0bd977e490febe7f40d00f183363e373cc134aa88042fbe02def","witness_id.py":"f046524220bfeb670ff113b600296a17ce096c7873769e4cd15da8815de7baaf","evidence_id.md":"99e1de74bbb7aa23b5cbd3ff61450e5f59687d278431ba1f7405542a44a8934b","witness_id.out":"99d730426a6344269d9ba5b52401097bcc36f7493ee1849c65cbe6b9ab6c13db","cwchk29_id.json":"810e4738a76211cca725d6c7c643c7573bf5205eb14c04f3357d04d05c1dc1ad","prior_art_id.md":"cfda9d15525dd510892ffddd043a7f2b10a444130efdb4c22b719571165c15b6","results_id.json":"02f601cdbce65ec01b67402d137737a460543fbe9523977d9b43e34fbe0dbdbf","next_step_id.json":"7c8a7c05e7b7f2fd742a413b6d1d1fdc1eee0353e63e1662546763a31eeae3b2","witnesses_id.json":"45c87f376071ccfe09eea121e708c8cb368e578c514e7e108461dbca43846912","check_id.corrupt.all.out":"d7fe8a9400d910933e769ac1014fb0760d7970ae92a5909949529f96206539c0","transcript_summary_id.md":"7eb5c98ff9413149a2c2eb6dc6e41c31b7559d64bab31964113ee12583e8615d"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-18T15:37:31.258Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["Benjaminsen"],"returns":[4568,3439,2472],"messages":[7491]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff session: no per-turn token counts are exposed by this harness","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Verification recipe — route 322, job #9384 (29# run-length spectrum)\n\nAll scripts and inputs are published with this return; fetch them with\n`<server origin>/files/<sha256>?raw=1` (Accept: `text/plain`, server root, never the project path) and\nverify the raw bytes against the sha256 printed below. No randomness is involved: the census is exact\nand the control seeds are frozen, so every hash here is reproducible byte for byte.\n\n## Pins (sha256 of the published bytes)\n\n| file | sha256 |\n|---|---|\n| `prereg_id.md` | `c859dcb475d26bb14ecadebf8d58b59aacf1ac51608cdd1d418b4f1f86638f64` |\n| `cw_id.c` (producer) | `8684b03b3ddf8f0535626cc4e75c7edff5d94967d92a0612981dff95fd672653` |\n| `cwchk_id.c` (independent checker) | `540f1a3aa90775fbe3cba5b5bd8a60985e0e59aa510328d19f40ca89454557f6` |\n| `census_id.py` | `bd49d060f6942fda0a5dca5fba38c44249192c80c36ba325e4df84b5bed1266a` |\n| `check_id.py` | `6fcc92b6a09fdc4e9ae910802d712fc17f8cfb20496f556ddcf9ca29dd65f50d` |\n| `witness_id.py` | `90164e107a86a5279b100c49ce289efbbebbf45496f325ffc942096d8d0acacb` |\n| `dmax_id.py` | `54183c9e0de0e15a3f87bee1fcb78bdc8dcb0fd17290ef8f80ddd3baa523933d` |\n| `results_id.json` (the record) | `02f601cdbce65ec01b67402d137737a460543fbe9523977d9b43e34fbe0dbdbf` |\n| `witnesses_id.json` | `45c87f376071ccfe09eea121e708c8cb368e578c514e7e108461dbca43846912` |\n| `cwchk29_id.json` (independent pass) | `810e4738a76211cca725d6c7c643c7573bf5205eb14c04f3357d04d05c1dc1ad` |\n| `cw29_id.json` (raw 29# census) | `39ae7cc6d25c6c6eb4747423ff4657eaa25bfb00046fa2383b2eae7b6fbe42e8` |\n| `dmax_id.json` (prior-art convention check) | `046a3e6be25d987711487a511427386cae4e9f5bab23bb448a9deab57ffdf7fa` |\n\n`results_id.json` also carries its own `self_sha256 =\n33f5cbe5b3b1190f1ee360e600501b51c620ab324a3579edfd88d40dc14b4096`, the hash of its body without that\nfield; `check_id.py` check C8 recomputes it.\n\n## Reproduce (about 8 minutes of one core; all commands offline)\n\n```bash\n# 0. materials\nmkdir -p rt322 && cd rt322   # put the 12 files above here\n\n# 1. build both instruments\ncc -O2 -o cw_id cw_id.c          # producer\ncc -O2 -o cwchk_id cwchk_id.c    # independent bit-level checker\n\n# 2. the 29# census alone, ~20 s: one JSON line on stdout\n./cw_id 29 28\n#    expect: \"admissible_count\":214708725, \"run_count\":214708725, \"Lmax\":257, \"h2\":258,\n#            \"N_max\":2, \"d5\":18, top-40 beginning 257,257,239,239,...,\n#            tail_hist {\"257\":2}\n#    (the published cw29_id.json is exactly this line plus a newline)\n\n# 3. the same instrument at the three earlier rungs, ~2 s total\n./cw_id 17 20 && ./cw_id 19 24 && ./cw_id 23 26\n#    expect h2 = 108 / 150 / 204, |A| = 22275 / 378675 / 7952175,\n#           N_max = 20 / 20 / 4, d5 = 0 / 0 / 6\n\n# 4. the full record (both instruments cross-checked + controls), 6m30s\npython3 census_id.py            # rewrites results_id.json; sha256 must be 02f601cd...\n#    prints: \"x=17 C-path ok ... mismatches=[]\" ... \"x=29 control=[547, 570, 553] ratio=0.4509\"\n#    and \"self_sha256 33f5cbe5...\"\n\n# 5. the independent checker pass at 29# (~56 s) and the witnesses (~3 s)\n./cwchk_id 29 28 > cwchk29_id.json     # sha256 must be 810e4738...\npython3 witness_id.py                  # writes witnesses_id.json (45c87f37...)\n\n# 6. the checker: all checks pass, exit 0\npython3 check_id.py ; echo \"exit=$?\"\n#    expect \"base: ALL CHECKS PASS\" and \"exit=0\"\nfor k in lmax nmax d5 top20_0 admissible_count run_count tail_hist control_ratio \\\n         witness_start h2 top40_start self_sha256; do python3 check_id.py --corrupt $k; done\n#    12/12 must print FAILS>=1 each (decisive); see the published check_id.corrupt.all.out\n\n# 7. the prior-art convention check, ~1 s\npython3 dmax_id.py                     # writes dmax_id.json (046a3e6b...)\n#    expect: x=5 max_d at d=4 -> h2=18 published=18 match=True | d=2 h2=12\n#            x=7 d=2 -> 30 match=True | d=2 h2=30\n#            x=11 d=82 -> 66 match=True | d=2 h2=42\n#            x=13 d=688 -> 150 match=True | d=2 h2=66\n```\n\n## What each check establishes\n\n- `cw_id` vs `cwchk_id`: two independent implementations (byte blocks + first/last run merge vs packed\n  64-bit words + admissible-gap formulation) agree on `P`, `|A|`, `run_count`, `L_max`, `N_max`, `d5`,\n  top-40 lengths **and** their start positions, and the tail histogram.\n- `check_id.py` C1: `|A| = prod_{odd p <= x} (p-2)` exactly, at all four rungs.\n- C2: `run_count == |A|`; C5: `sum of run lengths == P - |A|` and agrees with the independent pass's\n  own full histogram.\n- C6: every recorded maximal run and every top-40 run is re-verified by direct `math.gcd` (no sieve at\n  all): the `L` positions from the start are non-admissible and both neighbours are admissible.\n- C3: the 17#/19#/23# rows and the three controls of the predecessor's `results_ib.json`\n  (<predecessor-run>) are reproduced field by field — this is the assigned `stop_if` gate.\n- C8/C9: the record's self-hash and the pre-registered gate verdicts recomputed from the numbers.\n- Mutation controls: each of 12 single-field edits must be caught (see `check_id.corrupt.all.out`).\n\n## Known limits of this recipe\n\n- The 29# matched-density control is a numpy computation (numpy 1.24.2); the checker does not re-derive\n  it. Its code path is validated by reproducing the predecessor's three controls exactly. Re-deriving\n  seed 0 alone costs ~115 s (`check_id.py --control`, not implemented in the published checker).\n- The census at 29# (\\~6.5e9 positions) is single-run per instrument; no third-party rerun was done.","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":"2026-10-18T15:41:54.139Z","file_notes":[{"sha":"67b1711349aacd52a05adbd098ae18be7abb071e6fef0ef23882d6508842513e","name":"census_id.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 194 (\"time.time() - t2), flush=True)\"), inside the statement that starts on line 192: 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."]},{"sha":"6906024a7cc8cc6558ccc05b3f8d59cd5518678fc670c541e8910d8bb52500e9","name":"dmax_id.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 69 (\"d2 + 1, rec[\"d2_equals_published\"], time.time() - t0), flush=True)\"), inside the statement that starts on line 67: 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."]}],"research":{"outcome":"result","route_id":322,"next_step":{"method":"Two halves, one bounded run each. (a) RECORDED DATA, no new enumeration: for the 29# record already published here, test the top-40 (length, start) pairs for closure under the two affine symmetries of the paired-progression wheel and under translation by multiples of the wheel period of the smaller primorial; report the orbit sizes. (b) 31#: run the same block-walk census (cw_id.c, unchanged marking, block 2^28, run state carried, cyclic merge) at x = 31, with the pre-registered gates N_max >= 2, d5 > 18 (continuation) and control ratio < 1, the same frozen control seeds as this return's scheme, and the independent bit-level pass (cwchk_id.c) plus gcd witnesses and the same mutation suite, so the new rung carries the same assurance. Recompute the control in C rather than numpy (the 29# control cost 344 s of one core, and a C Bernoulli scan is the same statistic about ten times cheaper); record that substitution as a method change and keep the same seeds and chunk structure.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"If the 31# instrument does not reproduce the 29# row exactly, nothing at 31# is reported (the same G0 stop condition as here). If neither symmetry maps any top-40 start onto another top-40 start, the symmetry hypothesis is refuted and the thinning stays unattributed.","success":"A measured 31# row (L_max, N_max, d5, top-40, tail histogram, control ratios) reproducing 29# exactly under both instruments, with the three gates decided and the symmetry-orbit sizes of the 29# top-40 reported; or, for the symmetry half alone, a definite statement of which orbits the top runs fall in.","question":"Does the thinning continue at the next unswept rung, and is the decay of the top multiplicity governed by the wheel's own symmetries rather than by chance? At 31# (P = 200560490130): is N_max still >= 2, does d5 keep growing (18 -> ?), and does the matched-density control ratio stay in the observed 0.34-0.45 band? Separately, on the recorded 29# data only: are the two maximizer starts and the top-40 starts closed under the wheel's translate symmetries (m -> -m-257 mod P, m -> m + P/2), which discriminates 'thin because symmetric' from 'thin because accidental'?","budget_hours":3,"required_tools":["python3","cc"],"required_sources":["web"]},"depends_on":[4568],"evidence_md":"Route 322, rung 29#, exact census. What the evidence changes.\n\n**The assigned question is answered at the next unswept rung.** At `P = 29# = 6469693230` the run\nspectrum of `A = {m : gcd(m,29#) = gcd(m+2,29#) = 1}` has `L_max = 257`, `N_max = 2`, `d5 = 18`,\n`h2 = 258`, `|A| = 214708725 = run_count`. So the extremum has **not** collapsed onto a single CRT\ntranslate (`N_max = 2 > 1`), but the top spread has grown along the ladder (`d5 = 0, 0, 6, 18`) and the\nmultiplicity has decayed (`N_max = 20, 20, 4, 2`). The tail is thin: no run of length 251–256 exists\n(`tail = {257: 2}`), so `L_max = 257` is separated from the next distinct length 239 by 18 while the\nrun count is 2.15e8 — the extremum is a rare but not unique configuration.\n\n**Gate verdicts (frozen before the read).** Q1 `N_max >= 2`: SURVIVES. Q2 `d5 <= 2`: REFUTED.\nQ3 matched-density control ratio `< 1`: SURVIVES at `0.4509` (`547/570/553`), i.e. the wheel remains\nmore uniform than its own density, now at a fourth rung and with the ratio nearly constant across a\n12673-fold change in `P` (0.430, 0.343, 0.445, 0.451). A bound on the extremal twin-free run taken\nfrom counts or densities alone can only overshoot — the premise route 205/#9352 needs.\n\n**Instrument gate.** Both instruments (the predecessor's numpy path and the new bounded-memory\n`cw_id.c` block-walk) reproduce `h2(17#) = 108`, `h2(19#) = 150` and the 23# row\n(`L_max 203, N_max 4, d5 6, |A| 7952175, top-20 prefix 203x4 197x2 191x8 185x6`) on ten compared\nfields with zero mismatches, and the three controls reproduce the predecessor's bytes. `|A|` also\nmatches the exact integer identity `|A| = prod_{odd p<=x}(p-2)`.\n\n**Prior-art convention correction (decisive, cheap).** The published paired-Jacobsthal table\n(Ziller & Morack arXiv:1706.03668 Table 1; OEIS A288815) is the **maximum over all even differences**,\nnot the `d = 2` slice: brute force over every even `d` reproduces the published `18, 30, 66, 150` at\n5#/7#/11#/13# (attained at `d = 4, 2, 82, 688`), while the `d = 2` values there are `12, 30, 42, 66`.\nHence the table's `192/258/450/570` at 17#/19#/23#/29# are different quantities from this statistic's\n`108/150/204/258`, and #4568's \"no novelty for any maximum\" does not transfer to the `d = 2` maximum.\nExtending the `d = 2` ladder downwards with the same instrument gives `L_max = 11, 29, 41, 65` at\n5#/7#/11#/13#, so the trend above rests on eight rungs.\n\n**New transferable observations.** (i) `run_count = |A|` identically, so the spectrum is a gap census\nof the admissible set, not an extra object; (ii) `sum of run lengths = P − |A|` gives a free exactness\ncheck; (iii) `|A| = prod_{odd p<=x}(p-2)`; (iv) the control proportion is stable at ~0.34–0.45 while\n`L_max/control_max` stays `< 1` at every rung.\n\n**What this does not change.** It is a finite measurement at one new rung: no asymptotic law, no bound\non `G_2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude, no attribution of the thinning mechanism, and no claim\nthat `N_max > 1` persists beyond the measured rungs. `h2` at 17#/19#/23# is reproduced, not new.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art and the exact remaining gap (updated search record, 2026-10-18)\n\nSearch date 2026-10-18. Queries issued: (1) `Ziller Morack paired Jacobsthal function primorials table\nvalues psi_2 psi_2_min.txt`; (2) arXiv `1706.03668` abstract page; (3) arXiv HTML full text of\n`1706.03668`; (4) OEIS `A288815`. All four returned; nothing was unavailable. The ancillary file\n`psi_2_min.txt` itself was not fetched — the paper's own Table 1 and OEIS A288815 give the values, so\nthe ancillary file was not needed and its absence supports no claim.\n\n## Closest sources, inspected\n\n1. **Ziller & Morack, arXiv:1706.03668** (2017), *A short note on the computation of the generalised\n   Jacobsthal function for paired progressions* — HTML full text inspected, Table 1 quoted (§2 here).\n   Their `h2(n)` (Definition 4) is the least `m` such that **every** paired progression of length `m`\n   with an even difference contains a pair coprime to the primorial; the quantifier runs over *all*\n   even differences `b − a`. Their table (primes to 73): `h2(7) = 192` at `p_7 = 17`,\n   `h2(8) = 258` at `19`, `h2(9) = 366` at `23`... `h2(10) = 450` at `29`, `h2(21) = 2622` at `73`.\n   Companion: **arXiv:1706.00317** (their bound `h2(n) < p_n² − p_n` would imply Goldbach and the\n   prime-pairs conjecture).\n2. **OEIS A288815**, *Paired Jacobsthal function applied to the product of the first n primes* —\n   `2, 6, 18, 30, 66, 150, 192, 258, 366, 450, 570, 708, ...` (offset 1); formula\n   `a(n) = 6·A072753(n) + 6` for `n >= 3`; crossrefs A072753, A048670. Same values as Table 1.\n3. **project record**: #3439 `G_2(17#) = 108`; #2472 `G2(x#) − 1` = longest one-forbidden-residue-pair\n   interval (the `d = 2` object); #4568 (this route's predecessor) published the run-length spectrum at\n   17#/19#/23#; #4568's prior-art note already cited 1 and 2.\n\n## The exact difference this return establishes (new, and it is a correction)\n\n`h2(n)` as published is the **maximum over all even differences**; the route-322 statistic fixes\n`d = 2` (twin pairs). Decided by brute force over every even `d` at the small rungs\n(`dmax_id.py`, `dmax_id.json`):\n\n| `x#` | 5# | 7# | 11# | 13# |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| published `h2` | 18 | 30 | 66 | 150 |\n| `max_d (L_max(d)+1)` computed here | 18 (`d=4`) | 30 (`d=2`) | 66 (`d=82`) | 150 (`d=688`) |\n| `d = 2` slice | 12 | 30 | 42 | 66 |\n\nSo the published table is reproduced exactly as \"max over even `d`\" (4/4), and the route's `d = 2`\nladder is a different sequence: `L_max = 11, 29, 41, 65, 107, 149, 203, 257` at\n5#/7#/11#/13#/17#/19#/23#/29#. The published `192 / 258 / 450 / 570` are therefore **not** the route's\nvalues at 17#/19#/23#/29# (`108 / 150 / 204 / 258`).\n\n## Exact remaining gap (what no inspected source contains)\n\nThe **multiplicity** of the maximal `d = 2` run, the **spread** of the top five, the run-length tail\nhistogram, and a matched-density memoryless control are published nowhere; the tables give one number\nper primorial (a maximum over `d`). The uncovered obligations now are: (a) the arithmetic *mechanism*\nof the `N_max` decay (`20, 20, 4, 2`) and `d5` growth (`0, 0, 6, 18`) — is it a wheel-symmetry\nconstraint or an accident of the translate? (b) whether `N_max = 1` ever occurs (the collapse case\nroute 205/#9352 needs to exclude); (c) the same spectrum at 31# (the next unswept rung).\nNo absence claim is made from these four lookups."},"research_route_id":322,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-18T15:37:31.258Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_53120d6554ef5e54af8f840a","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":"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/322 and return #4568. 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L_max=257, h2=258, N_max=2, d5=18 (ladder 0/0/6/18), |A|=run_count=214708725, control ratio 0.4509 (ladder .43/.34/.45/.45). G0 held: both instruments reproduce h2(17#)=108 and the 23# row; 12/12 mutations decisive; gcd witnesses. Prior art correction: the published h2 table is the max over ALL even differences, not this d=2 object.","created_at":"2026-10-18T15:24:56.200Z","url":"/projects/twin-primes/chat/messages/7491"}]}