{"id":472,"job_id":1118,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":5,"type":"explore","user_id":36,"model":"gpt-5.6-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Job1118: a pair-list owner formulation for phase-cover proofs\n\nI propose one bounded, linked algorithm experiment for route4. I did not prove a twin-prime result, improve an exponent, solve the frozen D51 cover instance or discover a new general CSP theorem. The contribution is an exact representation and a falsifiable comparison of proof cost. Owning moduli, binary CSP conversion, strong clique covers, Helly lifting and prime-divisor counts all have prior work.\n\n## Exact object and elementary derivation\n\nLet D be a finite set of distinct integer twin-start slots. Let Q be distinct primes greater than3. All phases b=0,...,q-1 are allowed. Write\n\n    B_q(s) = {(-s) mod q, (-s-2) mod q}\n    K_q(b) = {s in D : (s+b) mod q in {0,q-2}}.\n\nA covering phase vector chooses one b per prime and has union_q K_q(b)=D. Define an owner c(s) in Q for every slot. The owner condition is\n\n    c(s)=c(t)=q implies (s-t) mod q in {0,2,q-2}.\n\nThis pair-only condition is equivalent to covering, not a marginal relaxation. A phase cover yields owners by selecting any prime that kills each slot. Conversely, for each q the sets B_q(s) of its owned slots are pairwise intersecting. Each B is an edge of the cyclic graph whose step is2. Since q is an odd prime above3, that graph is a triangle-free q-cycle. A pairwise-intersecting family of two-element edges has a common endpoint unless it contains the three edges of a triangle: choose {a,b}; if neither endpoint is common, an edge excluding a contains b and an edge excluding b contains a; their intersection forces the third vertex and a triangle. Thus the family has a common phase b. Empty owner classes permit any phase. Repeated residue edges cause no problem. This lifts owners to a covering phase vector at every prime, including the wrapped edge.\n\nAn equivalent Boolean formula has y_(s,q), one positive clause OR_q y_(s,q) per slot, and one binary clause NOT y_(s,q) OR NOT y_(t,q) for each incompatible pair/prime. Slot at-most-one clauses are optional: from multiple true owners choose one for each slot; deletions preserve compatibility. For D empty this formula is SAT, correctly. For Q empty and D nonempty it is UNSAT. The owner formula has |D||Q| principal variables and at most |Q|choose(|D|,2) incompatibility clauses plus |D| coverage clauses. It can have MORE clauses than the phase formula. No automatic search or proof-size saving follows.\n\n## Actual arithmetic sparsity, with its scope\n\nAssume every distinct difference in D is a nonzero multiple6 and diameter(D)+2<p^2, with q>p for q in Q. For s<t put Delta=t-s>=6. Pair compatibility at q is exactly divisibility of one of Delta, Delta-2, Delta+2 by q. These are positive integers below p^2. Each has at most one distinct prime factor above p, because the product of two such primes exceeds p^2. Therefore the list\n\n    A_(s,t) = {q in Q : B_q(s) intersects B_q(t)}\n\nhas at most3 primes. This is phase independent. The assumption is a common residue modulo6, not that the starts themselves are multiples6. No prime factorization is necessary to build lists: test each supplied q directly.\n\nConsequently four distinct selected phase kill classes have intersection size at most1. Two shared slots would give a pair with four compatible primes. This does not bound a slot's own kill multiplicity: choose b_q=-s mod q and the same slot is killed by every q. It does not make the hypergraph pairwise linear, truncate inclusion-exclusion at order3, imply negative association, or bound treewidth/conditioning rank. Storing the short eligible lists instead of all forbidden pairs is a representation choice; the actual owner constraint graph can still be dense.\n\nThe borrowed literal D51 support has p97, interval[9409,12540), first slots9419 and9431, and primes101..193. Their difference12 has forms10,12,14, so this pair has no compatible band prime. The complete multicoloured-graph hypotheses in the nearest strong-clique-cover paper are therefore unavailable. I did not recalculate the D51 census, co-kill statistic or old LP certificates. A future proof checker must hash and reconstruct the actual support and all incidence before certifying an arithmetic consequence.\n\n## Relation to the project goal\n\nFor any alpha<2, sufficiently large p makes a window length ceil((2p)^alpha) satisfy the short-difference condition. The condition alone does not imply noncoverability. Route4's H_alpha, asserting noncoverability for EVERY actual old-admissible window and phase vector, remains unproved and TPC-strength. If a uniformly justified arithmetic refutation construction established H_alpha, the established CRT/tile argument would yield subquadratic gaps and then twin-prime infinitude. This proposal changes the representation used to look for that construction. Finite checked proofs or a finite speed advantage would not establish uniformity.\n\nRoute1's pair-intersection union-budget loss and route2's third-order indistinguishable diagrams are preserved. Owners retain each slot's literal incidences and common phase requirement through the Helly argument; they are not a function only of aggregate intersection counts. Route11's quotient by identical K_q sets is the correct phase baseline. I propose neither repeating its completed counts nor treating elimination as stronger information than the full route4 formula.\n\n## Finite checks actually run\n\ncheck-small1118.py ran in Python3 on the current macOS host and printed PASS1118, exit0. It exhaustively checked141472 distinct cycle-edge families for q5,7,11,13,17; all111 pairwise-intersecting families had a common phase or were empty. Independently it compared direct phase-cover enumeration with pair-only owners on all512 subsets of {0,...,8}, Q={5,7}, examining all19683 owner assignments, not just the first successful one. The two formulations agreed on all512 cases, including367 coverable ones, and every compatible owner assignment lifted by direct phase enumeration. These are arbitrary small integer sets, not old-admissible windows or a cluster census. Small enumeration supports the explicit proof but is not a substitute for it.\n\nThe q3 counterexample D={0,2,4} was detected: every pair is compatible at3, yet no single phase kills all three. This validates the need for the q>3 hypothesis on arbitrary inputs. A one-slot, five-prime example verified that high point multiplicity remains possible. These are structural counterexamples, not mutation controls on a large proof checker. Observed CPU0.113785 seconds, peak RSS18776064 bytes. No SAT solver, LP, full primorial enumeration or literature computation was run. Scientific CPU is this observed amount; declaration0.0001CPUh is an administrative rounded allowance, not measured0.36seconds.\n\n## Bounded next experiment, predeclared here\n\nUse the already served coherence974-input.json SHA b173e69b99916a9562cfab59223359984c629f5845a68a265d4ef3dbc3f162c1 from return386, fixed D51 and all19 Q. Reconstruct and validate input arithmetic first. Do not rerun old co-kill/LP/phase-class censuses as research results.\n\nImplement two deterministic proof-producing searches on that SAME input. Owner search stores A_(s,t), chooses the unassigned slot with fewest remaining eligible owner colours (tie ascending slot), tries primes ascending and propagates same-colour incompatibility. It records a complete branching/refutation tree; at each node the checker independently reconstructs all allowed colours and verifies every exhausted branch or pair-conflict leaf. A SAT owner witness is lifted and checked against actual phases. Phase baseline branches in ascending primes over the distinct full-D kill sets, least phase representative, including empty; it uses only exact residual-capacity pruning from the known covering algorithm. Its tree checker recomputes each kill set from integer residues and verifies every possible class/leaf. Checkers must not import producer propagation or trust an unchecked solver status.\n\nCap EACH producer at72CPU seconds,200000 expanded states and2MB serialized proof, stopping at the first limit. One thread. Check both certificates if completed, with independent checker CPU cap18seconds each; stop the whole experiment at180CPU seconds. At most1GB RAM and0.25GB disk;1agent hour including implementation/judgment. A proof that exceeds the size limit is incomplete, not an UNSAT result. Record CPU, peak RAM, proof bytes, nodes and checker cost for both, plus exact negative controls removing a branch, changing a pair list, altering the support and falsely promoting an incomplete tree.\n\nContinue only if the owner search produces an independently checked exact SAT/UNSAT certificate within2MB, checking takes at most max(1second, discoveryCPU/5), AND either the phase baseline cannot complete within its same cap or the owner's checked proof is at most half the phase proof size. This is a finite feasibility criterion, not a claim of average speed or a general benchmark. If both finish without that advantage, the proposed compression incentive fails on this source. If both exhaust the cap, record unresolved finite cost and pause this implementation, not an impossibility theorem or a refutation of H_alpha. A wrong witness or missing branch defeats that package. No automatic larger-ladder continuation is warranted by this one source.\n\n## Prior work and remaining gap\n\nSee prior-art1118.md for exact search queries, source URLs, page locators and access limits. I found substantial methodological prior work and do not claim novelty of this exact specialization. What is not established in the project record is that the short-list owner formulation yields a useful small checked obstruction proof. Nothing from this assignment resolves that cost question, uniformity or an exponent.\n\nPublic protocol correction: the first claim request was rejected400 because its531characters exceeded the500 cap. I shortened it and claim1513 was accepted. No scientific observation was withheld or fabricated by that failure. 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Run python3 check-small1118.py in a directory containing the supplied script. Expect exactly PASS1118 plus small1118.json equal to the supplied target; resource output is host-dependent and not a target. This checks only the named small families/512 subsets, not D51 or an asymptotic theorem. Next research computation is separately bounded in the proposal, not executed here. No network or external package needed for the finite check. On macOS ru_maxrss is bytes; Linux reportsKiB, which affects the observational resource field only. Inspect prior-art1118.md locators rather than treating search snippets as proof imports. Neither ordinary recording nor a small check establishes the proposed algorithm advantage.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"xhigh","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0.4090909090909091,"omitted":9,"outputs":22},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-09-14T16:35:21.749Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Pair-list slot owners for checked prime-band phase obstructions","prior_art_md":"2026-09-14 UTC / 2026-09-15 Perth. Queries: Gallagher larger sieve polynomial differences two residue classes; Jacobsthal codegree/Helly; paired Jacobsthal clique; strong cover prime clique; two element sets pairwise triangle Helly; colour-dependent graph coloring; binary encoding non-binary constraint satisfaction dual hidden variable. No match is not novelty.\nRead Croot-Elsholtz (2003), https://ecroot.math.gatech.edu/gallagher.pdf , Thm2 p2 and difference-divisor proof pp3-4 eqs(1)-(2): classical pair-difference counting, no imported survivor lower bound. Original Gallagher EUDML205009 open403, original pages unread.\nRead Barát-Gyárfás-Sárközy EJC32(3)P3.45(2025), https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v32i3p45/pdf/ , section1.2 pp3-4 strong covers and Thms5/10 pp4/8, proof edge-multiplicity pp6-8: one clique per colour and Helly lifting known. Arithmetic pairs may have NO colour; complete multicolour/k-wise hypotheses are absent, so their coverage theorems do not apply.\nRead Stergiou-Walsh AAAI1999, https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~twalsh/swaaai99.pdf , pp2-3 dual/hidden encodings and relation composition: binary reformulation known. Initial www host failed; CGI worked. This owner relation is not claimed to be their exact generic dual encoding. Read Samaras-Stergiou JAIR24(2005)641-684, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.5714 , intro pp641-642: fewer variables alone does not guarantee faster binary search.\nRead Ziller-Morack1611.03310v1, https://arxiv.org/html/1611.03310v1 , Prop1.3, Remark4, section2.2(2.1), section2.3 pruning: owning moduli, CRT and residue ILP known. Read1706.03668v1 intro/section2 and https://arxiv.org/src/1706.03668v1/anc/full_details.pdf , Prop1.5/Remark1.8 pp7-9, basic algorithms pp9-11, section2.4 pp24-26 and modulus output p30: two independently chosen residues; here classes have fixed separation2. No published values replayed or unread ancillary theorem used.\nRead OUTCOMES Closed routes and questions, current routes4/11/1/2. Complete phase CSP (4) and kill-set quotient (11) already own the instance and compression. Changed ingredient: prove fixed-separation pair-only owner elimination, store at most3 eligible-prime labels per distinct pair on a short window, and measure a checked conflict proof against a matched phase-quotient search. Exact uncovered step: useful proof/checking cost on frozen D51, not the general coloring/Helly/divisor methods. Uniform subquadratic obstruction remains open and TPC-strength. See prior-art1118.md for full query/access ledger.","uncertainty_md":"Does the owner representation give a useful smaller independently checked proof on the frozen D51 support? Reduced variables/short pair lists do not imply lower runtime, fewer clauses, small treewidth or an asymptotic obstruction. Uniform arithmetic refutation remains a separate open hypothesis.","contribution_md":"Exact fixed-separation2 phase cover reformulated as pair-compatible slot owners via a triangle-free-cycle Helly argument. On common-mod6 windows of diameter+2<p², each pair has at most3 eligible band-prime labels. This changes route4 representation and proposes a small checked-proof cost test against route11 phase-quotient search. General CSP/Helly/clique-cover/divisor methods are known. A useful finite proof may expose reusable arithmetic structure; uniform H_alpha for alpha<2 and twin-prime infinitude remain unproved and TPC-strength. No exponent gain or novelty claimed."},"next_step":{"method":"Hash and reconstruct coherence974-input.json from return386, SHA b173e69b99916a9562cfab59223359984c629f5845a68a265d4ef3dbc3f162c1, use all51slots/19primes. Implement deterministic owner minimum-domain/ascending-colour branching with pair propagation and independent complete-tree checker; compare ascending-prime least-representative K-set quotient baseline with exact residual-capacity pruning and independent residue/tree checker. Each producer capped72CPU s/200000states/2MB proof, each check18CPU s; whole180CPU s. No old census/statistic/LP replay. SAT witnesses lifted through actual phases. Negative controls remove branch/change pair list/support/promote incomplete proof.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":0.25,"cpu_hours":0.05},"failure":"Incorrect witness/missing branch defeats package. Both finish without stated owner advantage defeats this source compression incentive. Both cap out leaves cost unresolved and pauses this implementation, not route4/H_alpha or all proof methods. Do not auto-scale.","success":"Owner exact SAT/UNSAT certificate independently checked within2MB; check CPU<=max(1s, discoveryCPU/5); additionally baseline fails its equal cap OR owner proof size<=half baseline proof. Finite feasibility only, no general speed/exponent/uniformity claim.","question":"Within matched bounded resources, can short-list slot owners produce a small independently checked cover/refutation proof that improves proof cost over exact phase-quotient branching on one frozen D51 source?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[],"evidence_md":"Explicit elementary owner-cover equivalence for every prime>3 and the three-form divisor bound. Finite checks:141472 cycle-edge families,512 subset-cover cases/19683 owners, all lifts valid; q3 and high-point-multiplicity exclusions demonstrated. General methods known, no frozen census/LP/cover solve performed."},"research_route_id":18,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":null,"run_id":null,"triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"mikecann","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New route.** Read the closed-routes register (`research/OUTCOMES.md`, section \"Closed routes\") and the open questions (`GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`). Search online for the route, equivalent formulations, previous attempts and published computations before proposing to try it. Draft one route to the target exponent or to the infinitude statement that adds something to the record, or changes a specific assumption or ingredient in a previously blocked route: the object, the step that would have to hold, the first check that could refute it cheaply, and what it would cost to run. Include it as `research.proposal` in this explore return, with the nearest prior work, exact difference and bounded next experiment.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. Then call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once. 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