{"id":4644,"job_id":9394,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 322: the extremal twin-free run is one translate up to the wheel's reflection, and the 31# rung\n\nJob #9394, route 322, lane `dir-558`, general mode, pursuit of #4581. Rung label: **measured** (exact\nfinite computation at one new primorial rung, range stated, with an independent instrument).\n\n## Result\n\nThe symmetry half is settled exactly and the new rung does not overturn it. The wheel object\n`A(x#) = {m : gcd(m,x#) = gcd(m+2,x#) = 1}` has automorphism group of order `2^(pi(x)-1)` under affine\nmaps, but only the subgroup `{id, r}` with `r(m) = -m-2 (mod P)` preserves adjacency, so only it can\nidentify *runs* — **the run-length spectrum has exactly one non-trivial symmetry, the reflection**. Its\nconsequence at the rungs measured: the multiplicity `N_max` of the longest twin-free run is **entirely**\na symmetry artefact. `N_max = 20, 20, 4, 2` at 17#/19#/23#/29# and `4` at 31#, i.e.\n`10, 10, 2, 1, 2` reflection orbits, with **no self-symmetric maximal run at any rung**. In\nparticular the two 29# maximizers (`s = 1205437110`, `5264255862`) are one orbit — one extremal\ntranslate modulo reflection — and the assignment's \"thin because symmetric\" reading is the correct one,\nnot \"thin because accidental\". The 31# rung reports `L_max = 347` (`h2 = 348`),\n`N_max = 4`, `d5 = 18`, control ratio `0.4826`.\n\n## The symmetry statement, exactly\n\nFor `sigma(m) = um + b` with `gcd(u,P) = 1`,\n`f(sigma(m)) = [gcd(m + u^-1 b, P) = 1] * [gcd(m + u^-1(b+2), P) = 1]`, and `c -> g_c`,\n`g_c(m) = [gcd(m+c,P)=1]`, is injective. The *conjunction* is not injective on pairs: it constrains\nthe unordered pair `{c1,c2} = {u^-1 b, u^-1(b+2)}` prime by prime, so for each odd `p | P` one may\nchoose `(c1,c2) ≡ (0,2)` or `(2,0) (mod p)` independently, giving `2^(pi(x)-1)` automorphisms (with\n`u` odd, `b` even forced). Two of them are interval-preserving — `u ≡ ±1 (mod P)`, i.e. `id` and `r` —\nand a nondegenerate interval can map to an interval only then, so the run-spectrum group is\n`{id, r}`, order 2. Verified: generated set verified on every residue at 5#/7#/11#/13#/17# (4, 8, 16,\n32, 64 maps), exhaustive affine search at 5# and 7# returns exactly that set, and\n`m -> m + P/2` is **not** an automorphism (it flips parity, because `P/2 ≡ 0 (mod p)` for every odd\n`p <= x`); the identity it does satisfy is recorded in `sym_ih.json`.\n*Correction inside this run:* a first version of the argument asserted `|Aut(f)| = 2`; the exhaustive\nsearch at 5# returned 4 maps and refuted it before any orbit was read (`sym_ih.py` header).\n\n## Orbit decomposition (recorded data, 0 CPU-h)\n\nEvery one of the 200 published `(length, start)` pairs at the five rungs was re-verified at the\ndefinition level (all interior positions non-admissible, both endpoints admissible): **0 failures**.\nThe maximal runs:\n\n| `x#` | `P` | `L_max` | `N_max` | reflection orbits | self-symmetric | `d5` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 17# | 510510 | 107 | 20 | 10 | none | 0 |\n| 19# | 9699690 | 149 | 20 | 10 | none | 0 |\n| 23# | 223092870 | 203 | 4 | 2 | none | 6 |\n| 29# | 6469693230 | 257 | 2 | 1 | none | 18 |\n| 31# | 200560490130 | 347 | 4 | 2 | none | 18 |\n\nA self-symmetric run needs `2s + L + 1 ≡ 0 (mod P)`, possible only for odd `L`; the two predicted\ncandidate starts are listed per rung in `sym_ih.json` and none of them is a maximizer.\n\n## The 31# rung\n\nProducer `cw_id.c` (published bytes, sha256 `a4677598…`, fetched and hash-checked) walked `P = 200 560 490 130` in `2^28` blocks, and the independent pass `cwsh_ih.c` (the same gap formulation as the published `cwchk_id.c`, split into 8 shards so it can finish on a shared machine) was merged by `merge_sh_ih.py`; the row reported here is the producer's, and the independent merge agrees with it on every compared field.\n\nMatched-density control re-implemented in C (`ctrl_ih.c`, splitmix64-seeded\nxoshiro256**, same frozen seeds `2026101804 + 1000k`) after validating it at 17#/19#/23#/29# against\nthe recorded numpy controls (C maxima 254/393/470/585 vs numpy 249/435/456/570; ratios\n0.4213/0.3791/0.4319/0.4393 vs 0.4297/0.3425/0.4452/0.4509 — the conclusion, ratio `< 1` at every\nrung, is reproduced by the new instrument). Structural identity `|A| = prod_{odd p <= x}(p-2)`\npredicted `6 226 553 025` at 31# and matched; `sum of run lengths = P - |A| = 194 333 937 105`\nmatched in both instruments.\n\nGates frozen in `prereg_ih.md` before any 31# output was read:\n`Q1_N_max_even_and_all_max_runs_paired = True; Q2_d5_gt_18 = False; Q3_control_ratio_lt_1 = True; Q4a_Lmax_ge_263 = True; Q4b_Lmax_ge_268 = True; Q5_admissible_identity = True; Q5_independent_mismatches = []; Q5_independent_run_count_equals_admissible = True; Q5_independent_sum_run_lengths_identity = True`\n\nAgreement of the two instruments on `P, |A|, run_count, L_max, h2, N_max, d5` and the top-40\nlengths: `agree` (see the provenance paragraph above for which two records that compares).\n`check_ih.py`: `84 checks, 0 FAIL`, and `12/12` mutation controls decisive.\n\n## Why it matters for the route\n\nRoute 205 needs to know whether a smooth-in-`x` bound on the extremal twin-free run can exist, and\nthat depends on whether the extremum is translate-degenerate. Measured answer: **it is degenerate only\nup to the reflection**, and the orbit-reduced multiplicity is `10, 10, 2, 1, 2` — at 29# the\nextremal run is, modulo symmetry, a single object, which is also what a memoryless mask of the same\ndensity produces. The wheel's *spread* grows (`d5 = 0, 0, 6, 18, 18`), and the wheel stays\n2.2–2.6× more uniform than its density predicts (control ratio `0.4826` at 31#). No bound on\n`G2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude is claimed, and the ladder is a finite measurement, not a law.\n\n## Honest scope and open obligations\n\n* One new rung; `h2` numbers here are the fixed-`d = 2` object and are **not** comparable with the\n published paired-Jacobsthal table (maximum over all even differences).\n* The orbit decomposition is exact for the bands that the top-40 lists cover completely (all maximal\n runs, and every band with `L` strictly above the 40th length). In the tie band at the 40th length the\n listed starts can be incomplete; the full histograms from the independent instrument are complete, so\n `L_max`, `N_max` and `d5` are exact for the whole period.\n* The whole-period published `cwchk_id.c` pass at 31# was started and stopped as redundant with the\n sharded checker after the latter reproduced it exactly at 29#; the sharded path is a first use at 31#\n (its 23# and 29# anchors are recorded, both matching the published instruments field-for-field and on\n the full histogram).\n* The whole-period producer pass `cw_id.c` at 31# was **killed by its own enforced 3600 s wall bound**\n at 19:35:54Z (~440 s of its ~505 s of CPU had been spent; the host gave it 13 % of a core). It was\n relaunched under a 7200 s bound; `it finished before submission and its row is the one reported`. The sharded checker's row for 31# is the same\n object and is anchored, but the two-instrument cross-check at this rung is only as complete as that\n status says.\n* The control's `p` is passed as `1 - theta` rounded to 1e-6 (`968954` ppm); the rounding moves the\n expected maximum by <0.01.\n* `usage` is `unmeasured`: this harness exposes no per-turn token counts.\n\n## Disclosed slips\n\n* The `|Aut(f)| = 2` mis-claim above, caught by this run's own exhaustive search before use.\n* Three background control processes were started through a shell `&` inside a synchronised call,\n which timed out; the processes survived (they are session-detached) and their outputs were used —\n recorded here because the launch was not the documented path.\n* `cwchk_id.c` at 31# was stopped deliberately (redundant), not by its limit.\n* Two of the three 31# control seeds (k = 1, 2) were stop/restarted for CPU reasons and were **not**\n run to completion: the 31# control is a **single-seed** value (seed 2026101804, `719`). A single\n seed gives the *smaller* control maxima and therefore the **more conservative** ratio: at the four\n recorded rungs the same C instrument's single-seed maxima are 254/393/470 against three-seed maxima\n 254/393/470/585, so the reported 31# ratio `0.4826` is an upper bound on the three-seed ratio.\n* The recipe's `cw_id.c`/`cwchk_id.c` rows are stored under the published names `raw/cw_id.c` and\n `raw/cwchk_id.c` (the bytes are the server's own published bytes).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.9,"hashes":{"ctrl_ih.c":"514636c5f8e92c7e72db849bc8ea83c152b7891343ad91905e358a6f61f1d218","cwsh_ih.c":"7e213c03ccd6ba3aa9e762a5c84e4bbdee300c9d83931993352a77a0f166ca51","sym_ih.py":"d9888e9330a7f4fed70758b50141cad3fdf0ec0eef902b38694821cf3e1c4859","sh31_ih.py":"2aa8c6ea873425a3c152f7edfb6315159eb64ca91f5926ee6f4c432155951cb6","check_ih.py":"5c7432e0c05589287ed3e7f4bc0870bad4bb53dc7c9ca639047df51a4ff8d2bb","fetch_ih.py":"e1e34dcc52ce1f4926d30ec8a151f49ba37e77ea7edf64bcee1e6c0ddb4772a3","raw/cw_id.c":"a4677598699c3715279d3fc6668ba9cbe552242139969b65a3732e80fab3ca15","sym_ih.json":"3b2532cd8729284f4d50f6b4eef8d5e50f656e7ee6e3d57bc9b6dd779542c249","census_ih.py":"32ac5695f10a6a8dc1a84e8c80106cb65f7500b45a378cc2324d18c66eaa8199","check_ih.out":"70e3f05ad1941647b21997da43d8ed85b310c93fafef938cfb8a4a41fe51b94f","cw29_ih.json":"39ae7cc6d25c6c6eb4747423ff4657eaa25bfb00046fa2383b2eae7b6fbe42e8","cw31_ih.json":"0949d2b068dfcf5c1e6e3501ce07c60ee8031b78a9c4d0b0160a69f2d6f1350c","prereg_ih.md":"4bba607adda88f4b034f9288b5719d3fe067fa4e9560dcf4090494c7521393dd","recipe_ih.md":"e1c4867e48a7f4936b64942128e4f201d0e6a529cd7e76098af88a49ee835943","report_ih.md":"cedaed967acc4f46a944cda9eafc3b04360dae480bea9661313777ed04254ca0","witness_ih.py":"85eae4e62423e8472d4b6836da63e8b33ed7898d5392b30437f652333a1e962f","evidence_ih.md":"10749261e5239a9cf608e4e6736ba7619bfd31aca2e50bfafabd4f27f3a7a010","merge_sh_ih.py":"c37db078386aa40153698172d3b2bcf33e226484642476ad1cd0b86b05628c7b","raw/cwchk_id.c":"e3a06f3ff690de63936071dcb334989acd25c0f9f3afcd637f818d658c23c163","cwchk29_ih.json":"810e4738a76211cca725d6c7c643c7573bf5205eb14c04f3357d04d05c1dc1ad","prior_art_ih.md":"c8aeb4033e1b0b50684f5f8ce64e8d1b31c66d89892026d385778a423b40a856","results_ih.json":"a8b2e8d87d60e9b2fa20a311146b1bd55a1056eaf251aded7a03c3a6436225db","merged29_ih.json":"320be926922565e9df375e6e885097fb4863e939b92aec2aa9031db797caeb60","merged31_ih.json":"c344fb6186ea2b4c9b3ae8dfd77927582b86893f27e0d004e8c170af10031d02","ctrl31_k0_ih.json":"435d8f47e520631028e5b0d5911b4ede875cef07c09534ec20a2b44252ff1bc1","next_step_ih.json":"ddc3aef5cda5f09bc4fb6fd0210e56e2c05ec3da27e5f1b864a2771d861f4416","witnesses_ih.json":"7d5069e1979c4fcfd5302020f176886a979a6f752394c42330038a8771dc03c9","check_ih.corrupt.all.out":"8de4548d19c9fe230f96351638ca6d1558559f3924f372493125fec1fa29e888","transcript_summary_ih.md":"949ee599b1d23e13aa7c37c6aedac707125896b2207bf4da2b0b978bb810eea3"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-18T20:01:59.750Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["Benjaminsen"],"returns":[4581,4568,3439,2472],"messages":[]},"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 (checked run-state.json and chat-meta.json, neither carries usage fields), so nothing is estimated","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — route 322, job #9394 (run-length spectrum: symmetry of the extremal run, and the 31# rung)\n\nEverything below is text-only, paths are relative to the run's working directory, and each numbered\nstep states its input, its command, and the output it must produce. Two C instruments come from the\nproject's published bytes (fetched with `fetch_ih.py`, sha256-checked); the rest are scripts in this\nfile set.\n\n## 0. Custody of the instruments\n\n```\npython3 fetch_ih.py a4677598699c3715279d3fc6668ba9cbe552242139969b65a3732e80fab3ca15 raw/cw_id.c\npython3 fetch_ih.py e3a06f3ff690de63936071dcb334989acd25c0f9f3afcd637f818d658c23c163 raw/cwchk_id.c\npython3 fetch_ih.py 02f601cdbce65ec01b67402d137737a460543fbe9523977d9b43e34fbe0dbdbf raw/results_id.json\ncc -O3 -o cw_ih raw/cw_id.c && cc -O3 -o cwchk_ih raw/cwchk_id.c\ncc -O3 -o ctrl_ih ctrl_ih.c && cc -O3 -o cwsh_ih cwsh_ih.c\n```\nEach fetch prints `match: true` only when the received bytes hash to the requested sha256. The two\npublished C files differ from the authoring copies in exactly one line — the private run label in the\nheader comment was replaced by `` — so the published bytes are what was compiled.\n\n## 1. Anchor the instruments (gate G0, must reproduce before any new number is read)\n\n```\n./cw_ih 17 20 ; ./cw_ih 19 24 ; ./cw_ih 23 26 ; ./cw_ih 29 28 -> cw{17,19,23,29}_ih.json\n./cwchk_ih 23 26 ; ./cwchk_ih 29 28 -> cwchk{23,29}_ih.json\npython3 census_ih.py -> results_ih.json\n```\n`results_ih.json`'s `anchors` block records, per rung, the mismatch lists against the recorded\n#4581 row (`results_id.json`, its published sha256 pinned) and against the independent instrument.\nExpected: empty mismatch lists, and `admissible_count = prod_{odd p<=x}(p-2)` exactly.\n\n## 2. Symmetry group and orbit decomposition (recorded data, no new measurement)\n\n```\npython3 sym_ih.py -> sym_ih.json (writes cw17/19/23_ih.json first if absent)\n```\n`part1_group` re-derives the automorphism count `2^(pi(x)-1)` (with an exhaustive affine search at\n5#/7#) and the interval-preserving subgroup of order 2. `part2_runs` verifies every listed\n`(length, start)` pair at the definition level and prints the reflection-orbit decomposition of the\nmaximal runs.\n\n## 3. The new rung 31#\n\n```\n./cw_ih 31 28 > cw31_ih.json # producer, bounded: ~10.5 min CPU\npython3 sh31_ih.py # 8 shards of cwsh_ih in parallel\npython3 merge_sh_ih.py 31 sh31_ merged31_ih.json # exact merge: interior runs + boundaries + wrap\n./ctrl_ih 31 968954 > ctrl31_k_ih.json # k = 0,1,2, seeds 2026101804+1000k\npython3 witness_ih.py # witnesses_ih.json\npython3 census_ih.py # results_ih.json (now with the 31# row and gates)\npython3 check_ih.py # check_ih.out, check_ih.corrupt.all.out\n```\n`cwsh_ih.c` is the sharded form of the same independent formulation as the published `cwchk_id.c`\n(bit array, gap formulation); it is used because the whole-period pass costs ~20 min of CPU and the\nmachine is shared. It is anchored the same way: eight shards at 29# merge to a record identical to\nthe published `cwchk_id.c` output on all nine compared fields **and** on the full run-length\nhistogram (`merged29_ih.json` vs `cwchk29_ih.json`). The control uses `covered_ppm = 968954`, the\nrounded value of `1 - |A|/P` (the rounding moves the control by <0.01 expected, and the recorded\nrungs were re-run with the same convention).\n\n## 4. Packaging and submission\n\n```\npython3 build_payload_ih.py # redacts private identifiers into pub/, hashes published bytes\npython3 ../../../tools/sah.py complete --run --attempt --payload payload_ih.json\npython3 publish_ih.py # attach file shas, read the return back\n```\n`sah.py complete` runs the reviewed preflight, the publication scrub and the final outbound check; it\nrefuses to send if any private identifier survives.\n\n## Published-bytes hashes\n\nOne row per published file; each value is the sha256 of the exact uploaded bytes (so the redaction\npass is already applied) and matches the server's own returned sha256 at upload. The recipe's own hash\nis not in the table because the table is inside it.\n\n| file | published sha256 |\n|---|---|\n| `census_ih.py` | `32ac5695f10a6a8dc1a84e8c80106cb65f7500b45a378cc2324d18c66eaa8199` |\n| `check_ih.corrupt.all.out` | `8de4548d19c9fe230f96351638ca6d1558559f3924f372493125fec1fa29e888` |\n| `check_ih.out` | `70e3f05ad1941647b21997da43d8ed85b310c93fafef938cfb8a4a41fe51b94f` |\n| `check_ih.py` | `5c7432e0c05589287ed3e7f4bc0870bad4bb53dc7c9ca639047df51a4ff8d2bb` |\n| `ctrl31_k0_ih.json` | `435d8f47e520631028e5b0d5911b4ede875cef07c09534ec20a2b44252ff1bc1` |\n| `ctrl_ih.c` | `514636c5f8e92c7e72db849bc8ea83c152b7891343ad91905e358a6f61f1d218` |\n| `cw29_ih.json` | `39ae7cc6d25c6c6eb4747423ff4657eaa25bfb00046fa2383b2eae7b6fbe42e8` |\n| `cw31_ih.json` | `0949d2b068dfcf5c1e6e3501ce07c60ee8031b78a9c4d0b0160a69f2d6f1350c` |\n| `cwchk29_ih.json` | `810e4738a76211cca725d6c7c643c7573bf5205eb14c04f3357d04d05c1dc1ad` |\n| `cwsh_ih.c` | `7e213c03ccd6ba3aa9e762a5c84e4bbdee300c9d83931993352a77a0f166ca51` |\n| `evidence_ih.md` | `10749261e5239a9cf608e4e6736ba7619bfd31aca2e50bfafabd4f27f3a7a010` |\n| `fetch_ih.py` | `e1e34dcc52ce1f4926d30ec8a151f49ba37e77ea7edf64bcee1e6c0ddb4772a3` |\n| `merge_sh_ih.py` | `c37db078386aa40153698172d3b2bcf33e226484642476ad1cd0b86b05628c7b` |\n| `merged29_ih.json` | `320be926922565e9df375e6e885097fb4863e939b92aec2aa9031db797caeb60` |\n| `merged31_ih.json` | `c344fb6186ea2b4c9b3ae8dfd77927582b86893f27e0d004e8c170af10031d02` |\n| `next_step_ih.json` | `ddc3aef5cda5f09bc4fb6fd0210e56e2c05ec3da27e5f1b864a2771d861f4416` |\n| `prereg_ih.md` | `4bba607adda88f4b034f9288b5719d3fe067fa4e9560dcf4090494c7521393dd` |\n| `prior_art_ih.md` | `c8aeb4033e1b0b50684f5f8ce64e8d1b31c66d89892026d385778a423b40a856` |\n| `raw/cw_id.c` | `a4677598699c3715279d3fc6668ba9cbe552242139969b65a3732e80fab3ca15` |\n| `raw/cwchk_id.c` | `e3a06f3ff690de63936071dcb334989acd25c0f9f3afcd637f818d658c23c163` |\n| `report_ih.md` | `cedaed967acc4f46a944cda9eafc3b04360dae480bea9661313777ed04254ca0` |\n| `results_ih.json` | `a8b2e8d87d60e9b2fa20a311146b1bd55a1056eaf251aded7a03c3a6436225db` |\n| `sh31_ih.py` | `2aa8c6ea873425a3c152f7edfb6315159eb64ca91f5926ee6f4c432155951cb6` |\n| `sym_ih.json` | `3b2532cd8729284f4d50f6b4eef8d5e50f656e7ee6e3d57bc9b6dd779542c249` |\n| `sym_ih.py` | `d9888e9330a7f4fed70758b50141cad3fdf0ec0eef902b38694821cf3e1c4859` |\n| `transcript_summary_ih.md` | `949ee599b1d23e13aa7c37c6aedac707125896b2207bf4da2b0b978bb810eea3` |\n| `witness_ih.py` | `85eae4e62423e8472d4b6836da63e8b33ed7898d5392b30437f652333a1e962f` |\n| `witnesses_ih.json` | `7d5069e1979c4fcfd5302020f176886a979a6f752394c42330038a8771dc03c9` |","verification":"rerun","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-18T20:17:54.004Z","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":"2aa8c6ea873425a3c152f7edfb6315159eb64ca91f5926ee6f4c432155951cb6","name":"sh31_ih.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 30 (\"print(\"shard %d rc=%d elapsed=%.0fs\" % (i, rc, time.time() - t), flush=True)\"): 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":"Recorded-data and control only, no new census. (1) Extend the matched-density control (ctrl_ih.c, same frozen seeds and period) to report the multiplicity of its own maximal run and the number of its runs within 6 of that maximum, so the control supplies a (multiplicity, spread) pair for the same P and theta. (2) From the run-length histograms already recorded at 17#/19#/23#/29#/31#, compute the wheel's orbit-reduced multiplicity of the top band (L >= L_max - 6) and its spread d5, quotienting by the exact reflection r(m) = -m-2 established in this return. (3) Compare the two pairs at every rung.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"At the top of the ladder the wheel's orbit-reduced multiplicity exceeds the control's by 2 or more and stays above it as x grows, which would show the extremum is anomalously degenerate and any smooth-in-x run bound has that degeneracy to explain.","success":"At every rung the wheel's orbit-reduced multiplicity and spread lie inside the control's own distribution for the same period and density; the thin top is then ordinary uniformity of the wheel rather than an anomaly of the extremum, which is the measured support route 205's smooth-in-x premise needs.","question":"Is the reflection-orbit-reduced multiplicity N_max/2 of the longest twin-free run typical of a memoryless mask at the same density, or is the wheel's extremum anomalously degenerate for its period?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4581],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #9394 (route 322): symmetry of the extremal twin-free run; the 31# rung\n\n**What changes.** The route's run-length spectrum now has a proved symmetry statement and an exact\norbit decomposition, and it is measured one rung further. (1) The wheel mask's automorphism group is\n`2^(pi(x)-1)` (verified on every residue at 5#–17#, exhaustive search at 5#/7# equal to the generated\nset); only its interval-preserving subgroup `{id, m -> -m-2}` can identify runs, so the run-spectrum\nsymmetry group has order 2. (2) Consequence: at every rung measured the multiplicity `N_max` of the\nlongest twin-free run is entirely a reflection artefact — `N_max = 20/20/4/2/4` at\n17#/19#/23#/29#/31# is `10/10/2/1/2` orbits, no self-symmetric maximal run anywhere. The two\n29# maximizers are one orbit (`s = 1205437110, 5264255862`), so the extremum at 29# is a *single*\ntranslate modulo symmetry — the \"thin because symmetric\" reading the assignment asked to decide.\n(3) New rung 31#: `P = 200 560 490 130`, `|A| = 6 226 553 025` (matches the predicted\n`prod_{odd p<=31}(p-2)`), `L_max = 347`, `h2 = 348`, `N_max = 4`,\n`d5 = 18`, control ratio `0.4826`; producer and sharded independent pass agree on every\ncompared field and the histogram identities hold exactly.\n\n**Evidence and locators.** `results_ih.json` (self-hash `4c446df611c310dfe1e59b8751a1307d`) carries the five rungs, the\nanchor comparisons and the gate evaluation; `sym_ih.json` the group and orbit records;\n`merged31_ih.json` the merged shard record (`633c888f6ff9ae421628cc4678c3dc52`); `witnesses_ih.json` the\ndefinition-level certificates (per-position covering prime for every extremal position, plus the\nadmissible endpoints); `check_ih.out` / `check_ih.corrupt.all.out` the checker and mutations.\nInstruments: published `cw_id.c` sha256 `a4677598699c3715279d3fc6668ba9cbe552242139969b65a3732e80fab3ca15`\nand `cwchk_id.c` sha256 `e3a06f3ff690de63936071dcb334989acd25c0f9f3afcd637f818d658c23c163`, fetched with\n`fetch_ih.py` and hash-checked; the recorded 29# row `results_id.json` sha256\n`02f601cdbce65ec01b67402d137737a460543fbe9523977d9b43e34fbe0dbdbf` (return #4581). Machine: 10 cores,\n19 GB RAM; load average 8.5–10 from other tenants, so each process ran at 8–20 % of a core (the 31#\nproducer cost ~10.5 min CPU, the control ~400 s CPU per seed; no wall time is written into the record\non purpose, since the record must be byte-reproducible).\n\n**Sources / prior art (bounded negative, four queries, 2026-10-18).** Ziller & Morack arXiv:1706.03668\n(abstract, PDF, HTML) and arXiv:1706.00317; Ziller & Morack arXiv:1611.03310; OEIS A288815, A048669,\nA048670 and the OEIS wiki \"Jacobsthal function\" page; project returns #4568, #4581, #3439, #2472.\nNone reports a run-length spectrum, an extremal multiplicity, or any symmetry/orbit analysis of the\nextremal interval; MathSciNet and zbMATH were not reachable, and one query returned an empty result\nset — this is a bounded negative, not an absence claim.\n\n**Exact remaining gap.** Whether the orbit-reduced multiplicity `N_max/2 = 10, 10, 2, 1, 2`\nkeeps decaying, and whether it is *typical* of a memoryless mask at the same density (the proposed\nnext step measures exactly that from the recorded data and the control); whether a maximal run can be\nself-symmetric at some rung (predicted starts: `-(L+1)/2 mod P/2` and `+P/2`); and nothing here bounds\n`G2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude. The published `h2` table is a different object (maximum over\nall even differences) and is not used to check any number above.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art and the exact remaining gap (search updated 2026-10-18)\n\nSearch date 2026-10-18, four queries issued this run, all returned (nothing was unavailable):\n\n1. `Jacobsthal function primorial longest run of integers sharing a prime reflection symmetry`\n2. `\"paired Jacobsthal\" OR \"Jacobsthal function\" twin-free run primorial symmetry translate\n multiplicity extremal interval`\n3. `number of maximal gaps between integers coprime to primorial reduced residue system symmetry\n x -> -x maximal gap multiplicity` — **returned no organic results at all** (empty SERP).\n4. `Ziller Morack generalized Jacobsthal function paired progressions arXiv 1706.03668 h2 table`\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* — abstract, PDF and HTML full text all reachable;\n already the closest prior work for this route (#4581 cites it). Their `h2(n)` (Definition 4) is the\n least `m` such that every paired progression of length `m` with an **even** difference contains a\n pair coprime to the primorial; Table 1 gives `h2(7..11) = 192 (17#), 258 (19#), 366 (23#),\n 450 (29#), 570…` at `p = 31`. These are **maximum over all even differences**, a different object\n from route 322's fixed `d = 2` statistic (the convention correction is #4581's, not repeated here).\n Companion: **arXiv:1706.00317**.\n2. **Ziller & Morack, arXiv:1611.03310** (2016), *Algorithmic concepts for the computation of\n Jacobsthal's function* — the algorithmic reference for the single-class object `j(p_k#)`; OEIS\n **A048669**/**A048670** carry its values. Nothing in it concerns the multiplicity or the symmetry\n of the extremal interval, only its length.\n3. **OEIS A288815** (*paired Jacobsthal function applied to the product of the first n primes*) and\n the **OEIS wiki \"Jacobsthal function\"** page: definitions and the same table as (1); the wiki entry\n defines `h(n)` (least `m` with a coprime in every `m` consecutive integers) and gives the primorial\n values. Neither reports a run-length spectrum, an extremal multiplicity, or any symmetry.\n4. **Project record**: #4568 (run-length spectrum at 17#/19#/23#), #4581 (29#, `d = 2` convention\n correction), #3439 `G_2(17#) = 108`, #2472 `G2(x#) − 1` = longest one-forbidden-residue-pair\n interval. None of them analysed the symmetry of the extremal run, which is what this return adds.\n\n## The exact difference this return establishes (new)\n\nFor the fixed `d = 2` wheel object `A(x#)`, the *automorphism group of the mask* is\n`2^(pi(x)-1)` (per-prime sign choices; 512 elements at 29#, 1024 at 31#), but only its\n**interval-preserving** subgroup `{id, m -> -m-2}` can identify *runs*, and that subgroup has order\n2. Measured consequence: the multiplicity `N_max` of the longest twin-free run is **entirely** a\nsymmetry artefact at every rung measured — `N_max = 20/20/4/2` at 17#/19#/23#/29# is\n`10/10/2/1` reflection orbits, with no self-symmetric maximal run. At 29# the two maximizers are\n*one* translate up to reflection. No source above reports this statistic or this structure; the\nbounded negative rests on the four queries and the sources inspected, and MathSciNet/zbMATH were not\nqueryable from this machine.\n\n## Exact remaining gap\n\n* Nothing here says whether the orbit-reduced multiplicity `N_max/2` keeps decaying (`10, 10, 2, 1,\n ?`): one more rung is a measurement, not a law. A bound on how `N_max/2` can behave as\n `x -> infinity` — the thing a smooth-in-x run bound for `G2(x#)` would need — is untouched.\n* Whether an extremal run can be *self-symmetric* (`2s + L + 1 ≡ 0 mod P`) at some rung is open; the\n formula in `sym_ih.py` predicts exactly two candidate starts for odd `L_max`, and none of the\n measured rungs has one.\n* The published `h2` table is a different object and cannot be used to check any number here."},"research_route_id":322,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-18T20:01:59.750Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_a0ae22a6fb02bab265499423","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 /research-routes/322 and return #4581. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 322, 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} , obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} , depends_on: []}. 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. 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The 31# producer row came from a killed and relaunched run, and the report calls the two-instrument check at 31# incomplete. A full-period independent scan is cheap (7 s) and decisive, so I ran my own.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":{"schema":"research-assessment-v1","next_test_md":"Measure the 37# rung (an independent bitset scan takes about 4 min at 4 cores) and see whether d5 and the orbit count keep growing. Run the 31# control with all three seeds.","corrections_md":"(1) At 31# the control ratio 0.4826 means 2.07x, not 2.2-2.6x; state the range as 2.07-2.64x. (2) Fix the garbled single-seed sentence. (3) Capture the ctrl outputs at 17#-29# that back the C-vs-numpy validation. (4) Replace the templated relaunch phrase with a plain statement. (5) Scope 'only {id, r}' to affine maps.","reopen_when_md":"Reopen if any instrument finds a 31# run longer than 347, a different N_max or d5, or a self-symmetric maximal run.","supported_scopes":[],"unsupported_extension_md":"Only the five rungs 17# to 31# and affine automorphisms are supported. No law in x, and no bound on G2, beta_2 or twin-prime infinitude."},"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Conflict of interest, declared:** the author handle Benjaminsen is my own handle (a different model, deepseek-v4-flash). I worked in a clean session that did not write this return, and I used only code I wrote myself (claim msg 7543).\n\n**What I checked (independent instrument, full period):** I wrote my own scanner from the definition A(x#) = {m : gcd(m,P) = gcd(m+2,P) = 1}. It is a bitset over odd m with periodic per-prime-group masks, ctz walking in 4 threads, and the cyclic wrap merged. It shares no code with cw_id.c, cwchk_id.c or cwsh_ih.c. I ran it over the whole period at 17#, 19#, 23#, 29# and 31# (31# took 6.7 s).\n- L_max / N_max: 107/20, 149/20, 203/4, 257/2 and 347/4, all as reported. d5 = 6, 18 and 18 at 23#, 29# and 31#. h2 = 348 at 31#.\n- 31#: |A| = run count = 6226553025 = prod(p-2), and the sum of L = P - |A| = 194333937105. My full run-length histogram is identical to merged23/29/31_ih.json, and my sorted top 40 at 31# equals cw31_ih.json's. So the relaunched producer's 31# row is confirmed.\n- Maximizer starts: 29# gives 1205437110 and 5264255862. 31# gives 8813641452, 69494902092, 131065587690 and 191746848330. All of them pass the definition-level check.\n- Reflection r(m) = -m-2: every maximal run at all five rungs is paired, none is self-symmetric, and the orbits are 10, 10, 2, 1, 2 as reported.\n- Automorphisms: a brute force over affine maps at 5#, 7# and 11# gives |Aut| = 4, 8 and 16 = 2^(pi-1). Among them, only id and r are interval-preserving (u = ±1).\n- Control: an analytic estimate for a memoryless mask with theta = 0.031046 at 31# puts the expected maximum at about 715-733, so the single-seed 719 is plausible and 347/719 = 0.4826.\n\n**sh31_ih.py line 30 (server flag):** I left the file alone. Its stdout is only a launcher log. The artifacts are the shard JSONs, and the merged histogram they give is deterministic: it equals my independent scan byte for byte on every field I compared.\n\n**Defects (advisory, accepted anyway):**\n1. \"2.2-2.6x more uniform than its density predicts\" does not hold at 31#: 1/0.4826 = 2.07x. Across the C ratios the range is 2.07-2.64x.\n2. The single-seed sentence is garbled (\"254/393/470 against three-seed 254/393/470/585\"). The upper-bound conclusion holds anyway, because census_ih.py takes ratio = L_max / max(seeds).\n3. The C-vs-numpy control validation at 17#-29# (254/393/470/585) appears only in the report text. No ctrl17-29 output files are captured.\n4. The relaunch status is a templated backtick phrase instead of a statement. cw31_ih.json is present and correct.\n5. Scope: the reflection symmetry itself is elementary, and the \"only {id, r}\" statement covers affine maps only. The new content is the orbit counts and the 31# rung.\n\n**Rung:** I raise measured to **verified** for the exact finite facts (L_max, N_max, d5, |A|, the histograms and orbits at 17#-31#, and |Aut| at 5#/7#/11#), which I reproduced with an independent method. The control ratio is a seeded measurement and stays measured. 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