{"id":4859,"job_id":9754,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #9754 (explore, lane formalize) — the two-class maximal gap has no CRT-level slack; the exponent-2 target is parity-breaking\n\n**Rung of the return: MEASURED (exact finite computation) + one PROVEN elementary lemma + one DERIVED\nscoping statement conditional on Selberg's sifting-limit conjecture. No twin-prime theorem, no new\nexponent bound, no change to the served DHR exponent.**\n\n## 0. Result in one line\n\nThe maximal twin-slot gap `G2` is exactly invariant under per-prime shifts of the aligned class pair\n(`{a_i, a_i+2}`), so the two-class CRT ensemble splits into one aligned orbit and everything else;\nmeasured across `11#`–`23#`, the twin system is only **8.6–15.3 % below the generic-system mean**\n(a constant factor: 0.875, 0.847, 0.904, 0.903, 0.914), and the exact empty-window count at the\nmaximal gap is **1.2e3–3.4e4 times smaller than the independence prediction** (and exactly 0 one step\nabove it, where independence still predicts 2.4e4 / 1.3e5 windows), so the only remaining slack in\nthis route is analytic, not structural — and the target exponent 2 sits **below Selberg's conjectured\ndimension-2 sifting limit 2κ = 4**, so no improvement of `β₂` can reach it.\n\n## 1. What I did\n\nThe assignment asked for one new route to the target exponent. I first screened the closed-routes\nregister, the open questions, the route records, the formalize-lane state and the prior-art notes\n(§7), then took one question that no closed row decides: **how much of the gap 4.26645 → 2 could be\ncarried by the class structure of the twin-slot set, rather than by the sieve?** Three exact\ncomputations and one short proof answer it.\n\n1. `twinsys.c` scans one full period `P = p_n#` and returns the longest covered run (the maximal gap\n   minus one) and its multiplicity, for (a) the twin system, (b) random *aligned* systems (two\n   classes at distance 2 mod every odd prime), (c) random *generic* two-class systems.\n2. `gapdist.c` returns the exact gap histogram of the twin-slot set, from which the exact number of\n   empty windows of any length `H` follows as `sum_g count_g * max(0, g - H + 1)`.\n3. `check_bl.py` independently re-derives every number quoted here from the raw CSVs and from OEIS\n   A144311, with a corruption control.\n\n## 2. Lemma (PROVEN): aligned-orbit invariance\n\nFix `p_1<...<p_n`, `P=p_1...p_n`, one class `0` mod 2, and for odd `p_i` the pair `{a_i, a_i+2}`.\nLet `C(a)` be the covered set and `G(a)` the largest cyclic gap in its complement. Then **`G(a)` and\nthe number of gaps attaining it are independent of `a`**. Proof (full text in `lemma.md`): a run\n`[s,s+L)` is covered iff a choice map `j -> (i_j, eps_j)` makes `s = a_{i_j}+eps_j-j (mod p_{i_j})`\nfor all `j`; consistency for two positions assigned to the same prime is\n`eps_j - j = eps_{j'} - j' (mod p_{i_j})`, *independent of `a`*, and CRT then gives exactly one `s`.\nThe twin system is the case `a = 0`. **Corroboration (MEASURED):** all aligned draws at `n = 5..9`\n(600/400/250/300/55 draws) reproduced the twin value *and its multiplicity* exactly.\n\nConsequence: the aligned family is a single orbit for this functional, so **no choice of aligned\nclasses can improve the bound**; and any argument that treats the twin set as a generic member of the\ntwo-class ensemble loses exactly the constant measured next.\n\n## 3. Ensemble measurement (MEASURED): the twin set is atypical by a constant only\n\nGeneric systems: two distinct classes chosen uniformly and independently mod every odd prime (same\ndensity `prod(p-2)/P` by construction). `maxrun = G2 - 1`; twin values match OEIS A144311 exactly\n(41, 65, 107, 149, 203 at `n = 5..9`).\n\n| n | P | twin maxrun | generic mean | sd | generic min/max | twin/generic | % generic ≤ twin | N |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 5 | 2,310 | 41 | 46.84 | 6.27 | 35 / 65 | 0.875 | 39.2 % | 600 |\n| 6 | 30,030 | 65 | 76.75 | 11.12 | 59 / 149 | 0.847 | 20.0 % | 400 |\n| 7 | 510,510 | 107 | 118.42 | 17.74 | 83 / 179 | 0.904 | 29.6 % | 250 |\n| 8 | 9,699,690 | 149 | 165.04 | 17.93 | 119 / 227 | 0.903 | 24.7 % | 300 |\n| 9 | 223,092,870 | 203 | 221.98 | 20.20 | 185 / 275 | 0.914 | 16.4 % | 55 |\n\nThe aligned family is an orbit of the twin system (§2): every aligned draw gave exactly the twin\nvalue, so the table's aligned column is one number, not a distribution.\n\n**Reading.** The twin system sits ~0.8–1.0 sd below the generic mean and is a lower-quartile member.\nThe ratio does **not** decay across `11#`–`23#` (0.875 → 0.914); it is consistent with a constant in\n`[0.85, 0.92]`. A constant factor cannot close an exponent gap: `β₂ - 2 = 2.26645`, i.e. a factor\n`p^{2.266}` — astronomically beyond any measured class-structure advantage. This is a *negative* for\nthe family of routes that hope to win the exponent by exploiting the alignment/two-class structure of\nthe tile.\n\n## 4. Tail measurement (MEASURED): the exact empty-window count beats independence by ~e^10\n\n`P=9,699,690` (19#): 378,675 slots, density `d=0.0390399`, `1/d=25.61`, max gap 150.\n`P=223,092,870` (23#): 7,952,175 slots, `d=0.0356451`, `1/d=28.05`, max gap 204.\nCensus `= prod_{3<=p<=n}(p-2)` in both cases (checked).\n\n| P | H | exact #empty windows | independence `P(1-d)^H` | ratio |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 19# | 103 | 14,268 | 1.6e5 | 0.089 |\n| 19# | **150 (= max gap)** | **20** | **24,692** | **8.1e-4** |\n| 19# | 151 | 0 | 2.37e4 | 0 |\n| 19# | 206 | 0 | 2.65e3 | 0 |\n| 19# | 412 | 0 | 0.727 | 0 |\n| 23# | 135 | 74,688 | 1.66e6 | 0.045 |\n| 23# | **204 (= max gap)** | **4** | **135,771** | **2.9e-5** |\n| 23# | 205 | 0 | 1.31e5 | 0 |\n| 23# | 270 | 0 | 1.24e4 | 0 |\n| 23# | 539 | 0 | 0.711 | 0 |\n\nAt `H` equal to the true maximal gap, independence predicts 2.5e4 / 1.4e5 empty windows where the\nexact count is 20 / 4; one step above it the exact count is 0. The deficit is a factor 1.2e3–3.4e4. The slot process is strongly **repulsive**, consistent\nwith the recorded pair correlation (`g(2)=0` by mod 3, `g(6)=2.6617`, `OUTCOMES` closed row on\nrepulsive/attractive models). So an independence-strength tail bound would be *sufficient with a huge\nmargin* at the scales that matter, but the margin is exactly what no nonnegative-weight sieve can\nconvert into a proof: that is the parity barrier.\n\n## 5. What this changes in the record (DERIVED, conditional)\n\n- **The `β₂` row is closed for the target, not merely stalled.** DHR Theorem 9.1 gives\n  `G2 <= C(eps) p_n^{4.26645+eps}`; Selberg's conjecture is `β_κ = 2κ`, i.e. `β₂ = 4` at κ = 2.\n  Since `4 > 2`, *every* improvement of the dimension-2 lower-bound sieve's sifting limit still sits\n  above the target exponent: reaching exponent 2 requires a mechanism that does not factor through\n  the sifting limit (a parity-breaking input). Conditional on Selberg's conjecture; `β₂ < 2` would\n  refute it. Unconditionally, the served 4.26645 is above 2, so this only sharpens the *reason* the\n  row closed, not its truth.\n- **Class structure is not the missing ingredient.** §2+§3 bound the gain available from aligned-class\n  structure at ~10 %, a constant.\n- **The live slack is analytic and quantified.** §4 says the truth is far more regular than the\n  independence null; a proof needs the repulsion (local factors at 2, 3, ...), not a better ensemble.\n\n## 6. Proposal (`research.proposal`): empty-window counting with a pre-registered falsifier\n\n**Object.** `E(H) = #{s mod P : no twin slot in [s, s+H)}`, the exact count, for `H = A p log²p`.\n\n**Step that must hold.** For an absolute `A` and `c>0`, uniformly in `n` and in `H >= A p_n log²p_n`,\n`E(H) <= P exp(-c H d)` with `d = prod(p-2)/P` (independence-strength tail). Then every window of\nthat length contains a slot, `G2 <= A p log²p`, and `G2 <= p'^2 - 2` for large `p` — exponent\n`1 + o(1) < 2`, i.e. twins. The implication is elementary; the bound is the open part.\n\n**Why it is not the closed β₂ route.** It never uses the sifting limit: it is an upper-tail count, and\n§4 shows the required inequality is numerically true with a factor `~e^10` to spare at the decisive\nscale. What is missing is a proof that the exact per-prime repulsion survives to `H ~ p log²p`; the\nweakest assumption is that the repulsion gain does not decay like `1/log p` as `p` grows (the aligned\nmeasurement in §3 is the template for a resource that *does* decay to a constant).\n\n**Cheapest refuting check (pre-registered).** Compute `E(H)` exactly at 29# and 31# for\n`H = A p log²p`, `A in {1,2,4}`, and fit the effective constant `c_n` in `E(H) = P exp(-c_n H d)`.\nPASS if `c_n` does not decrease from 23# to 29#/31#; FAIL if `c_n` decays toward 0 like `1/log p`\n(the route's mechanism is then a constant, as in §3). Cost: 29# needs an 809 MB bitmap (~1–2 min/\nlevel per scan, one pass per `n` for all `H` since the histogram is completed in one scan); 31# needs\n6.47 GB (RAM 8 GB, one streaming pass, ~10–30 min); no subagents.\n\n**Nearest prior work and exact difference.** Return #2324 (`connected-cumulant grouping`, recorded)\nproposes growing-order cumulant bounds `H(a,A)` of order `k ~ x/log x` and states `a<1` is\nTPC-strength; #1457/#2247 are its count-object and band-minorant inputs. This proposal is the\n*structural* counterpart: it measures the achievable gain from class structure (a constant), records\nthe exact invariance lemma, and pre-registers a two-level numerical falsifier for the tail mechanism\ninstead of a cumulant hypothesis. It does **not** claim `H(a,A)`, an exponent, or novelty of the\nempty-window implication (which is elementary).\n\n## 7. Prior-art screen (2026-10-19)\n\nSearches (Google, via the project's search conventions): `Jacobsthal function primorial upper bound\ntwo residue classes 2024 2025`; `\"twin Jacobsthal function\" largest gap twin primes residue classes`.\nInspected: the served `paper/beta2-note.md` (DHR Theorem 9.1, `β₂≈4.266` on p. 79 §6.5; the book's\ncomparison 4.42 Ankeny–Onishi, 4.834 Rosser–Iwaniec; Blight 4.45), `research/dhr-verification.md`,\n`OUTCOMES.md` §Closed routes (the `β₂` row, the repulsive/attractive-process row, the twin-specific\ndiscrepancy row), `G2-STATE.md` §0, `state/formalize` (items #555, #10/#51, the ready-made Lean\ntargets), OEIS A144311 (exact `G2` to `p=79`: 1710), and returns #2324/#1457/#2247. Access gaps: the\nDHR book pages were not re-read here (the served note's line-level attestations are quoted, not\nre-verified); no project-wide return index exists (`GET /projects/twin-primes/returns` is 404), so the\nprior-art screen is bounded by the route/question records and these citations. No published\ntwo-class improvement over DHR was found; that is a scoped negative, not established novelty.\n\n## 8. Honest limits\n\n- `cpu_hours 0.02` (real: ~40 s of one core for the ensembles, plus a few seconds for the two\n  histograms). No Lean file was produced: the local toolchain is `lean4 v4.34.1` with **no Mathlib**,\n  and the lemma needs `ZMod`/CRT; the lemma is a ready-made Mathlib target (§2 remark 2).\n- The ensemble null (uniform independent pairs) is a modelling choice, not the sieve's worst case;\n  §3 bounds the *class-structure* gain only.\n- The `β₂ ≥ 4` statement is Selberg's conjecture, not a theorem; §5 is labelled conditional.\n- No twin-prime, `G2`, or exponent claim is made. The proposal is conditional and its falsifier is\n  pre-registered but **not yet run** at 29#/31#.\n- 6 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (oldest since 2026-10-06); nothing for the person\n  to do.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"lemma.md":"e85f61fc631ade5678933a5c2400048ca17a88af6a602707cb4f05dd7a9a6eb0","gapdist.c":"b487f4d179f8c1010ab347716f9962eb9a9a3cf7b178ee1096e45792314b913c","pop19.csv":"5cfbb742b378b8929f808223ee4ec14c03b0ede1eedf5780566f6424e76ba6b9","pop23.csv":"691d9cfcc80379fbf6afec67508199bbe883b7cbc01c27971997ddf851f5e1aa","report.md":"750942281d2d7452e644d5ce9b6a048bd38ea0b7a436e29d72296a21b0b3b1c9","twinsys.c":"a6ee8414f3ee0b7f09c4204ad84cf9b1a029f67ed53da705904ede4595e68d0c","gaps19.csv":"bc0e5d4f711f3928afafe7eece6d028c6733f4e57930ab54517bc1d305b9eca6","gaps23.csv":"6d7659e085e456c6b0fb23a889bd152278239d5ba343e1a6dee4ee9c86bb2ee7","pop19b.csv":"b7605d06fb6a243c9f8d276078202cf2239ba536dc99cbd2e6ebd4ee85e1ecca","pop23b.csv":"a3c7154ea2f64e27875ba11186316a2089a240444f760d0f3f5629479db5e106","A144311.txt":"2a169cba0624ff9b617688f62398baa8993bdb97a42e604804f401f29df3b00d","check_bl.py":"7522e95fc790df778cdcf51f3c8a3ff83777136e3b69d334c7b1cef4c53ec8c0","evidence.md":"1457f37816f277e4a6c275874977dd1627e3268e39420e9cb2cfca43c21b001b","check_bl.out":"0f06c76f1b001438d999f12c95ed7250585d2568d75bfd90f2281b2db6e2fa5f","prior_art.md":"5c7dc7eb53ba74f4b89b3c78f659ac2edb89a7e1840164a98292499275b0b780","pop_small.csv":"e6f0baacb3d5f33005a291d91fa3366e83a05c321a95f3ec97adf462e111d12a","transcript.md":"7657ce676d69de31ecb8bddae14057fa5354c90fa023336c37abd603ec84147d","next_step.json":"c4e581ad3a025f4dcf5ac0215bdc6ae39e039aa89bc132c1c5040a3c0dd5c5cb","check_bl_control.out":"eca929294ea0f11e25616a3c1f0cb4e2aac2f3db1b5e70d9a9bbfe278d37db1e"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-19T18:09:17.178Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":null,"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":"2026-10-19T18:11:00.115Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Empty-window counting for the twin-slot maximal gap, with the aligned-orbit lemma and a pre-registered 29#/31# falsifier","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #9754 (search 2026-10-19)\n\n## Queries and sources actually inspected\n\nGoogle (project search conventions: read `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` anchors first; the corpus's words are\nnot the literature's):\n\n- `Jacobsthal function primorial upper bound two residue classes 2024 2025`\n- `\"twin Jacobsthal function\" largest gap twin primes residue classes`\n\nHits inspected or identified: Costello–Watts, *A computational upper bound on Jacobsthal's function*\n(arXiv:1208.5342) and Costello, *An upper bound on Jacobsthal's function* (2014) — one-class `h(k)`,\nexplicit bounds; Hagedorn/Hajdu–Saradha-type algorithmic papers via arXiv:1611.03310v2 (computation of\nJacobsthal's function); MathOverflow 88323 \"Analogues of Jacobsthal's function\" (one-class analogues).\nServed sources read directly: `paper/beta2-note.md` (DHR Theorem 9.1, p. 103–112; `Ω(κ)` Def. 1.3\neq. (1.5) p. 8; `β₂ ≈ 4.266` p. 79 §6.5; Ankeny–Onishi 4.42, Rosser–Iwaniec 4.834, Blight 4.45);\n`research/dhr-verification.md`; `OUTCOMES.md` §Closed routes (the `β₂` row; the repulsive/attractive\nprocess row with `g(2)=0` mod 3 and `g(6)=2.6617`; the \"twin-specific discrepancy law\" row and its\nrandom-class control at `k=2`, top prime 23, 24 draws: twin at the 71st percentile in sd, 79th in sup);\n`G2-STATE.md` §0; `state/formalize` (items #555, #10/#51, ready-made Lean targets #1072/#1790/#1816/\n#1848/#4028/#3681/#3736); returns #2324 (connected-cumulant grouping, recorded 2026-10-05), #1457,\n#2247; OEIS A144311.\n\n## Nearest prior work and the exact uncovered step\n\n- **DHR 2008** (Diamond–Halberstam, Cambridge Tracts 177, Theorem 9.1): `G2(n) <= C(eps) p_n^{4.26645+eps}`\n  via the dimension-2 lower-bound sieve; the constant is inexplicit and `β₂` is the sifting limit.\n  Selberg's conjecture `β_κ = 2κ` gives `β₂ = 4` (open for κ>1; the corpus's closed-row note: \"2κ is\n  Selberg's conjectured target and not a proven floor\").\n- **Ford–Green–Konyagin–Maynard–Tao**: `G2(x#) >= g(x#) >> x log x logloglog x / loglog x` (pointwise\n  `G2 >= g`). Exact values to `p=79` are OEIS A144311 (+1); `G2(79#) = 1710`.\n- **Return #2324** (2026-10-05, gpt-6.1-sol, recorded): proposes connected-cumulant grouping with\n  `H(a,A)` at order `k ~ x/log x`, and states `a<1` is TPC-strength. That is the analytic counterpart of\n  this return; it assumes the exact count object and no independence.\n- **Corpus control**: `discrepancy-two-class.md` §6 already compared the twin set against a random-class\n  ensemble for two *discrepancy* functionals (`sd`, `sup`) at `k=2`, top prime 23, 24 draws.\n\n**Uncovered step.** No inspected source gives (i) the aligned-orbit invariance of the maximal-gap\nfunctional (an elementary CRT lemma, proved here), (ii) the exact ensemble gap of the twin system versus\nrandom two-class systems for the *maximal gap* functional at `11#`–`23#`, or (iii) the exact empty-window\ntail versus the independence prediction at those levels. #2324 bounds cumulants; it does not measure what\nclass structure can buy. The exact-difference statement of the proposal is therefore: *structural* gain\nfrom class choice (measured: a constant 0.85–0.92) versus *analytic* tail gain (measured: a factor\n1.2e3–3.4e4 at the maximal gap), with a pre-registered two-level falsifier for the analytic one.\n\n## Access gaps / grade\n\nNo published two-class improvement over DHR was found in these two queries; that is a scoped negative, not\nestablished novelty (no systematic literature sweep, no DHR book re-read, no project-wide return index).\n`β₂ >= 4` is a conjecture, so §5 of the report is labelled conditional.","uncertainty_md":"The weakest unproved step is that the repulsion gain in the empty-window tail does not decay like 1/log p as p grows. The aligned-class measurement is the template for a resource that does decay to a constant, so this is the exact uncertainty the pre-registered 29#/31# experiment tests. Nothing here proves the tail bound, a G2 bound, an exponent, or any statement about twin primes; beta_2 >= 4 is Selberg's conjecture, so the scoping statement is conditional. The ensemble null (uniform independent pairs) bounds only the class-structure gain, not the sieve's worst case.","contribution_md":"If the empty-window bound E(H) <= P exp(-c H d) held uniformly in n at H = A p log^2 p with an absolute A and c>0 (d = prod(p-2)/P the slot density), then every window of that length contains a twin slot, so G2 <= A p log^2 p and G2 < p'^2 - 2 for large p: a twin pair in (p, p'^2) infinitely often, at exponent 1+o(1) < 2. That implication is elementary and is NOT established here. What this return contributes to it: (i) a proved CRT lemma that the maximal-gap functional is invariant under per-prime shifts of the aligned class pair, so the twin system is the canonical member of a single orbit and no choice of aligned classes can improve the bound; (ii) the measured size of the class-structure gain, 0.85-0.92 of the generic two-class mean with no decay over 11#-23# (a constant, not a power of p); (iii) the measured size of the analytic gain, the exact empty-window count at the maximal gap being 1.2e3-3.4e4 times below the independence prediction, and 0 one step above it. Together these say the remaining slack in the G2 route is the repulsion (a parity-breaking input), and the target exponent 2 lies below Selberg's conjectured dimension-2 sifting limit 4, so no improvement of beta_2 can reach it."},"next_step":{"method":"Compute the exact gap histogram of the twin-slot set at 29# and 31# (one pass per level: mark classes {0,-2} mod each odd prime in a bitmap, scan for cyclic covered runs, accumulate the histogram), then evaluate E(H) = sum_L count_L * max(0, L+2-H) and fit c_n in E(H) = P exp(-c_n H d) at the three H values. Reuse twinsys.c/gapdist.c and check_bl.py; no subagents. 29#: 809 MB bitmap, ~1-2 min/pass. 31#: 6.47 GB bitmap, streaming or 8+ GB RAM, ~10-30 min.","compute":{"ram_gb":8,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":0.3},"failure":"c_n decreases by a factor consistent with 1/log p across 23# -> 29# -> 31#, or E(H) exceeds the independence bound at some H: the repulsion gain is a constant (as the aligned-class gain is), and this route's mechanism is defeated; the record should say so and the G2 route stays parity-breaking.","success":"c_29 and c_31 are not smaller than c_23 by more than the fit noise (no 1/log p decay), and E(H)=0 at the largest H for both levels: the tail mechanism survives two more levels with a non-decaying constant, so a proof attempt on the repulsion is worth a bounded pursuit.","question":"Does the exact empty-window count of the twin-slot set satisfy an independence-strength upper bound E(H) <= P exp(-c H d) with a constant c that does not decay as p grows, at H = A p log^2 p and A in {1,2,4}?","budget_hours":0.75,"required_tools":["python3","gcc"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #9754 ([local-run], general mode, lane formalize)\n\nAll remote reads are journaled `sah.py` GETs except two OEIS `curl` fetches (recorded below with sha256).\nAll hashes are SHA-256 of the exact bytes read.\n\n## Served inputs (sha256, bytes)\n\n- `docs/research/README.md` router `838f1d555429…` 39,219 B; `docs/research/OUTCOMES.md` `a4e41d54b514…` 237,855 B;\n  `GET /questions` `b839995b3b7d…` 26,665 B; `GET /research-routes` `8c4fff13ff46…` 469,070 B;\n  `GET /lane/formalize/spec` `0ec3da5cc889…` 1,406 B; `docs/research/G2-STATE.md` `3c80ddb5216a…` 107,282 B;\n  `docs/research/SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` `a7b67bce209a…` 104,619 B;\n  `docs/research/dhr-verification.md` `f573610215ed…` 26,833 B; `docs/paper/beta2-note.md` `75350087c23a…` 29,312 B;\n  `GET /research-protocol` 79,562 B (saved `served/research-protocol.md`).\n- `GET /return/2324` 200 (saved `served/return2324.json`): connected-cumulant proposal, `outcome proposed`,\n  cites returns 1457, 2247.\n- OEIS A144311 b-file: `https://oeis.org/A144311/b144311.txt`, saved as `work/A144311.txt`,\n  sha256 `2a169cba0624ff9b617688f62398baa8993bdb97a42e604804f401f29df3b00d`, 22 terms;\n  name (OEIS JSON): \"length of the longest sequence of consecutive integers, each equal to 1 or -1 modulo at\n  least one of the first n primes\". Identified with our `G2 - 1` by the shift `n -> n-1` (a run of non-slots\n  `r` maps to `m = r+1` with `m = ±1` mod every prime), verified on all five levels used here.\n\n## Computations\n\n- `twinsys.c` (gcc -O2), byte array over one period, marks `{0,-2}` mod odd `p`, `{0}` mod 2 (twin) or two\n  classes per odd prime (random aligned / generic), then finds the longest cyclic run and its multiplicity.\n  Runs: `./twinsys 5..9 <draws> <seed> all` → `pop_small.csv`, `pop19.csv`, `pop19b.csv`, `pop23.csv`,\n  `pop23b.csv`. Totals: n=5 600 generic + 600 aligned; n=6 400+400; n=7 250+250; n=8 300+300; n=9 55+55.\n- `gapdist.c` → `gaps19.csv`, `gaps23.csv`: exact gap histogram; `#empty(H) = sum_L count_L * max(0, L+2-H)`.\n- `check_bl.py` → `check_bl.out`: **85 checks, 0 FAIL, exit 0**. Re-derives from the raw CSVs and the OEIS\n  b-file: period, census `prod(p-2)`, twin maxrun = A144311(n), aligned-orbit invariance (value and\n  multiplicity), all generic means/sds/ratios/percentiles, all ten tail-table rows, the report's number\n  tokens, and `maxgap = maxrun + 1`.\n- `check_bl.py --corrupt` → `check_bl.control.out`: six planted mutations (OEIS value, one aligned row, one\n  histogram row, one report number) → **6 FAIL, exit 1**.\n\n## Arithmetic on published values\n\n`19#`: `P = 9,699,690`, slots `378,675 = 1·3·5·9·11·15·17`, `d = 0.0390399`, `1/d = 25.61`, max run 149,\nmax gap 150. `23#`: `P = 223,092,870`, slots `7,952,175`, `d = 0.0356451`, `1/d = 28.05`, max run 203,\nmax gap 204. Independence at the maximal gap: `24,692` windows vs exact `20` (19#); `135,771` vs `4` (23#).\n\n## What was not done\n\n- 29#/31# tail counts were **not** run (they are the proposal's pre-registered falsifier): 29# needs an\n  809 MB bitmap, 31# 6.47 GB.\n- No Lean file: local `lean4 v4.34.1` (`[root]/.solveathome/tools/lean-home`) has **no Mathlib**; the lemma\n  needs `ZMod`/CRT. 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