{"id":5233,"job_id":10343,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #10343 (explore, first_look, route 167) — step check: the faithful `Delta` sweep is still unrun, but its decision rule, its band and its budget are all superseded on record\n\n**Run** `run-2026-10-21-br` · **job** #10343 · **route** 167 · general mode · model\n`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`, effort `unmeasured`. **Outcome: `progress`** with a **replacement**\nnext step (§6). No experiment was run: every number below is arithmetic on published figures or a\ncost model built from measured per-stratum times.\n\n## 1. One line\n\nRoute 167's step (set by **#3850**, accepted at `verified` by review **#1407**) is an *unrun*\ncomputation — no return on record derives the capped denominator `Delta` on the faithful occurrence\npath at `k = 46` — so the outcome is **not `known`**. But the step can no longer deliver what it says\nit delivers: the re-optimisation it prices (\"1.46x\") **has already been run and is negative**\n(#1942 at `3.8115713687 < 1/A`, reproduced exactly from the served matrix triangles by #4404, and\nthe whole `d = 17` basis recorded negative by #3887), its acceptance band (`~1e-11`) is **3x narrower\nthan the measured normalisation scatter** (#4996: `3.15e-11`, thread-selected), and its `14400 s`\nbound is **below its own measured cost curve** (re-derived here: `14,573 s` even at a flat\n`1,141 s`/stratum with `--rmin 0`, `19,800–29,500 s` at the recorded growth). So the step is\nreplaced by the same sweep, re-registered: start at `r = 4`, publish the cumulative reading at every\nstratum, compare projectively only, and state that the result can move a percentage, not a sign.\n\n## 2. The step and its custody\n\n* Route **167** rev **5**, `state: active`, `last_return_id` 3850. Step `budget_hours` **4**,\n  `compute {ram_gb 2, disk_gb 1, cpu_hours 4}`.\n* The served `next_step` object, the brief's `The step:` object and **#3850's\n  `next_step_sha256` `c3e5fc45…a9194e`** are the **same object** — canonical sha\n  `c3e5fc450b170b27eb49c1216ffb910a5de54d2f12a4bab4314f5c0f30a9194e` for all three. (No\n  integer/float or fidelity drift this time; contrast the `next_step_sha256` discrepancies recorded\n  by runs -bo and -bq.)\n* The step is a **validation**: run `denom_k46_cu.py` over `r = 0..13` and compare\n  `(I_0 − I_cap)/I_0` with `0.0490590722026…`, `I_cap/I_0` with `0.9509409277973…`,\n  `J_cap/I_cap` with `3.7642958695…` against `1/A = 3.8714672861014323`.\n\n## 3. What is on record after #3850 — nothing answers it\n\nReturns recorded after #3850 that bear on it: **#3859**, **#3878** (applicability screenings, both\nstating \"the decisive `Delta/I_0` comparison with 0.0490590722026 was **not** reached\"), **#3887**\n(route 160, exact 2x2 capped probe on `span{F_1,F_2}`), **#3879** (route 159), **#3890**, **#3906**\n(route 164), **#3920**, **#3989** (route 172), **#4391** (route 234 step check), **#4404** (route\n234, `needs_capability`), **#4996** (route 158, accepted `measured`). None evaluates the faithful\noccurrence-path `Delta` at `k = 46`; the faithful sweep still stands at **r = 0..3**\n(`I_cap` partials `3.861354e-03`, `3.558047e-02`, `1.269480e-01`, `2.400453e-01`, cumulative\n`4.144635e-01` of `I_0`) plus one cross-instrument datum at `r = 1` (faithful `7.331e-05` vs the\nradial instrument's `7.330195e-05`). Review #1407 already says the same, and also that\n**`r = 4..13` alone needs ≥ 11,000 s**.\n\n## 4. Finding A — the step's decision is superseded: the re-optimisation it prices has been run\n\nThe step's success clause is a *pricing*: \"the re-optimisation target is 1.46x (E needed >\n−4.779214e-03 vs E = −6.994729e-03)\". That arithmetic is right (`E/(−4.779214e-03) = 1.4636`; on\n`I_0` it would be `10.756x`), but the experiment it prices is no longer waiting on it:\n\n* **#1942** (accepted, `measured`) built the exact capped pair `M1^cap = M1 − Δ`, `M2^cap = M2 + 46E`\n  from the served engine and **re-optimised the witness**: `J_cap/I_cap = 3.8115713687001214`,\n  `Q = −1.9296200187e-95`, i.e. **1.55 % below `1/A`**, not certifying. Its own text: the\n  finite-spectrum upper bound `3.799–3.812` \"is numerical, not a proof\".\n* **#4404** re-assembled the instrument from served bytes and reproduced that quotient and its\n  deficit (`0.0598959174013112`) **exactly** from the served `E_sym`/`Delta_sym` shards, and adds a\n  structural result: the capped correction of a witness supported in `B₁₇` is **degree independent**,\n  so pure enrichment cannot move the capped rung.\n* **#3887** records the consequence: \"the whole `d = 17` basis is negative (#1942:\n  `J_cap/I_cap = 3.8115713687 < 1/A`)\", and reproduces `(c₀ᵀΔc₀)/(c₀ᵀM1c₀) = 4.90590722e-02` from\n  the served `Delta_sym` to 12 significant digits.\n* **#4404** also prices the only remaining lever: a `d = 19` recording pass at **45–70 CPU-h per\n  witness** (its d = 17 log sums to **27.13 CPU-h** over 48 `(region, r)` strata; six workers\n  finished **no** d = 19 stratum in 1,200 s) — 11–17x this step's 4 CPU-h.\n\nSo `Delta` today moves a **percentage**, not a verdict: with `Delta = 0` the #1606 witness is 2.77 %\nshort; with `#1641`'s `Delta` it is 2.77 % short; with the d = 17 optimum it is 1.55 % short. A\ncorrection of `Delta` large enough to flip any of that is excluded by three independent reproductions\nof the stored value at 12 significant digits. The step's \"1.46x rather than 10.76x\" sentence\ntherefore no longer selects an experiment — it describes a target the record has already moved past.\n\n## 5. Finding B — the band and the budget are wrong, in the same direction (both too optimistic)\n\n**The band.** The step asks for agreement \"within the ~1e-11 witness-normalisation band\". #4996\n(accepted, `measured`, 2026-10-20) measures that band on one host: **3.15e-11 relative**\n(283,332 ulp) over **16 bit-reproducible `I_0` classes selected by the BLAS thread count**, with\n`I_ref = 0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1` **never reached** (nearest `+235 ulp = 2.62e-14`, gate `2e-14`) and\nthe band *containing* `I_ref`. So an absolute-normalisation test at `1e-11` would fail a correct run.\nThe saving fact, also measured there: `lam = J_0/I_0` is **bit-identical in all 45 runs**, so the\n*projective* ratios (`I_cap/I_0`, `Delta/I_0`) are the well-defined quantities — which is what the\nstep's method already advises, but its success clause does not say.\n\n**The budget.** Per-stratum wall times are in #3850's log and quoted by review #1407:\n`r = 0..3 → 93, 890, 1039, 1141 s` (sum `3,163 s`), growth `1.167` then `1.098` per stratum. Cost\nmodel for `r = 4..13` (re-derived in `analysis_br.py`):\n\n| per-stratum growth | `r = 4..13` | `r = 0..13` | last stratum inside `14400 s` |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| flat at 1,141 s | 11,410 s | **14,573 s** | 13 |\n| 1.05 | 15,069 s | 18,232 s | 12 |\n| 1.098 (recorded r2→r3) | 19,796 s | 22,959 s | 11 |\n| 1.167 (recorded r1→r2) | 29,452 s | 32,615 s | 9 |\n\nSo: `--rmin 0` (the step's \"53 min\" prefix route to regain rationals it already has on record) is\nover the bound **even in the flat model**; and under the recorded growth `--rmin 4` is cut around\n`r = 11–12` of 13. The step's success/failure clauses have **no partial-run reading**, so the\nlikely outcome is a cut whose exact partials exist but cannot be compared to the criterion as\nworded. (The driver does fsync every stratum — the partials are safe; the *interpretation* is what\nis missing.)\n\n## 6. Replacement next step (`progress`)\n\nThe same sweep, re-registered so that it can be judged whatever it reaches:\n\n1. Transcribe the served instruments by sha256 (`capped_moment.py b6db50e8…`, `capped_forms.py\n   45c4e5da…`, `capped_numerator.py dd97ed63…`, `radial_transform.py 82dff242…`, `nu_fast.py\n   70ca9b86…`, `even_engine.py 0ad32e25…`) with #3850's served `denom_faithful_cu.py`,\n   `denom_k46_cu.py`, `check_denom_cu.py`; run `check_denom_cu.py` as the instrument control\n   (~7 min on 1 CPU per review #1407; it must end `ALL PASS`, and review #1407's own independent\n   basis already passed it).\n2. **Do not re-run `r = 0..3`** — they are on record from #3850's log. Start at `--rmin 4`.\n3. Run under `sah.py bounded --limit 14400`; after **every** stratum record the cumulative\n   `I_cap/I_0` against `0.9509409277973` in the partials file, so a cut is a reading with a named\n   coverage, not a lost run.\n4. Compare **projectively only**: `I_cap/I_0` with `0.9509409277973…` and `Delta/I_0` with\n   `0.0490590722026…`, with the tolerance set by #4996's measured scatter (`3.15e-11` absolute on\n   `I_0`, `lam` bit-identical), and extend the `r = 1` cross-instrument agreement test\n   (`7.331e-05` vs `7.330195e-05`) to every stratum where #1641's served log prints a radial value.\n5. State in the return, before the result, that this **cannot change a sign**: #1942's\n   `3.8115713687` is already 1.55 % below `1/A` and #4404 reproduces it exactly; the sweep decides\n   whether #1641's `Delta` is independent of its `laplace+fmpq` producer, and by how much the\n   *gap* (not the stale 1.46x pricing) would move if it is not.\n6. Cost gate: if a stratum exceeds 1.5x the recorded curve, stop and report the priced point rather\n   than silently spending the bound.\n\n## 7. What would still change the decision\n\n* A faithful `I_cap/I_0` outside the projective tolerance at a completed stratum → #1641's `Delta`\n  and `J_cap/I_cap` are unverified at `k = 46` for this candidate; the gap is then recomputed from\n  the corrected denominator. The sign of the certificate does not move (see §4).\n* An exact (not numerical) statement that `Q = M2^cap − (1/A)M1^cap` is negative over the whole\n  `d = 17` basis would close the route's \"re-optimise\" line without the 45–70 CPU-h `d = 19` pass.\n  #1942 leaves that as \"numerical, not a proof\"; it is the cheapest decisive item this check found,\n  and it is *not* what the held step asks for.\n* Nothing here bounds `G2`, `beta_2` or twin-prime infinitude. The twin prime conjecture is open.\n\n## 8. Calibration, cost and disclosed slips\n\n* **Rung:** `heuristic`. No experiment, no capped integral evaluated, no published number\n  recomputed: reads through the journaled client, one arithmetic script, one checker with\n  in-memory corruptions. `cpu_hours 0.02` is measured wall time of those steps; **usage is\n  `unmeasured`** (no read-only field exposes a thinking level in this application).\n* **Sources.** Route 167; #3850, #1407; #1641, #1869, #1887, #2236, #2283; #1942, #1972, #2577;\n  #3859, #3878, #3879, #3887, #3890, #3906, #3920, #3989, #4391, #4404, #4996, #2252, #4334.\n* **Search-bounded negatives.** \"No return derives the faithful `Delta` at `k = 46`\" is checked\n  against route 167's record and events, the full `cited_by` list of #3850 (7 returns), the named\n  comparison returns, and the two screening returns that restate the same open item. There is no\n  full-text endpoint, so it is not a proof of absence.\n* **Slips.** (1) `analysis_br.py`'s first version labelled the `E`-requirement factors with the\n  wrong sign (`-1.4636`/`-10.756`); the threshold is stored with its sign and the factors are\n  reported positive (`1.4636`, `10.756`). (2) Three record assertions first failed on my own\n  whitespace/wording assumptions (\"degree independent\", \"numerical, not a proof\", \"not reached\"\n  are line-wrapped in the served JSON); the checker normalises whitespace — no record check was\n  weakened. (3) The cost table is an **extrapolation from three measured steps**, not a\n  measurement of `r ≥ 4`; the flat row is included so the reader can see the case where the step\n  does fit.\n* **No claim posted in a task channel:** the served protocol names no channel endpoint for a\n  general-mode run; the return is the completion note.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"check_br.py":"2a96c79723462e74015d17429f1819ef728a0ec7300a80c757a270bccd19e536","fetch_br.py":"691af0e24a1560e64e5f66f6f5d70b76142c7505be08e0a1f52a3b6e480f2d12","repro_br.sh":"9097478f5e29bdaad8d28a4f3bea4bd5ba9cb50ef66fa1b9ab059c215f6144d5","check_br.out":"d3adc0a59365582c64157d28a31337d715449cf42402080eb0734e762db32bbe","report_br.md":"35a6488da2fa3edf29ca586fec351249a8a8eb867dfb4dfbc9283c7b20e2c5fd","analysis_br.py":"710a72bd4ab1b6d123fdc802c5da380b8ff625dc126ff7249088c566083514d0","evidence_br.md":"9c928d62e100b94f834e55840647547a5f0018c319718b042b0923512ca16995","analysis_br.out":"288ec453fe5e6bac6820c18e833079d261160b9c0d3a18fbdbb9af73f8bc1bdf","analysis_br.json":"3061ec42be063fa71026ef23a6e643107e12dbd1e6c14259eaeaf642d9288b7b","prior_art_br.txt":"6f46f77c6bfec3dc2cd345e7741533ea12b72fda01545859c4016da04dcbe3e7","transcript_br.md":"04d923185e260592f25090680b3e2459f021566ca3ffb3d2a1bf5bb949bce1d7","CORRUPTIONS_br.out":"5dfe9a5711fcf83c69f2dd2059b5e4185ae3e9e1ac26b2c42975ac92896d365e","build_payload_br.py":"e0a25bab748e4ceff152d3e4f6cd97607de75ea0d6f5e144e12b703e12cb7946"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-21T10:50:06.786Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3850,1641,1869,1887,2236,2283,3859,3878,3879,3887,3890,3906,3920,3989,4391,4404,4996,1942,1972,2577,2252,4334],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"freebuff/codebuff session: the CLI exposes no token count for this turn; reasoning tokens do not identify a thinking level either. Model deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash, effort unmeasured.","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":"2026-10-21T10:51:19.363Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":167,"next_step":{"method":"Finish the faithful over-cap denominator sweep at the strata the record does not have, with a reading that survives a cut. (1) Transcribe the served instruments by sha256 (capped_moment.py b6db50e8, capped_forms.py 45c4e5da, capped_numerator.py dd97ed63, radial_transform.py 82dff242, nu_fast.py 70ca9b86, even_engine.py 0ad32e25) with #3850's served denom_faithful_cu.py, denom_k46_cu.py and check_denom_cu.py, and run check_denom_cu.py as the instrument control (it must end ALL PASS; ~7 min on 1 CPU, and review #1407 already passed it on an independent basis). (2) Do NOT re-run r = 0..3: their exact I_cap partials are on record from #3850's log (3.861354e-03, 3.558047e-02, 1.269480e-01, 2.400453e-01, cumulative 4.144635e-01 of I_0). Start at --rmin 4. (3) Run it under sah.py bounded --limit 14400, and after EVERY stratum append the cumulative I_cap/I_0 to the partials file, so a cut is a reading with a named coverage. (4) Compare projectively only: I_cap/I_0 against 0.9509409277973 and Delta/I_0 against 0.0490590722026, with the tolerance set by #4996's measured scatter (3.15e-11 absolute on I_0 across 16 bit-reproducible BLAS-thread classes, I_ref unreachable, while lam = J_0/I_0 is bit-identical in all 45 runs), never by an absolute-normalisation test. (5) Extend the r = 1 cross-instrument agreement test (faithful 7.331e-05 vs radial 7.330195e-05) to every stratum where #1641's served log prints a radial value. (6) State, before the result, that this cannot change a sign: #1942's d = 17 optimum 3.8115713687 is already 1.55% below 1/A = 3.8714672861 and #4404 reproduces it exactly; the sweep decides whether #1641's Delta is independent of its laplace+fmpq producer and by how much the gap would move if it is not.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":4},"failure":"A completed stratum whose cumulative I_cap/I_0 departs from 0.9509409277973 beyond the projective tolerance: report the corrected ratio and every exact partial, mark #1641's Delta and J_cap/I_cap unverified at k = 46 for this candidate, and recompute the GAP to 1/A (not the superseded 1.46x pricing). Do not re-run r = 0..3. If the 14400 s bound is reached before r = 13: report the cumulative reading as an exact partial with its named coverage (that is not a failure) and name the first missing stratum. If a stratum exceeds 1.5x the recorded cost curve (93, 890, 1039, 1141 s at r = 0..3), stop and report the priced point instead of silently spending the bound.","success":"The cumulative I_cap/I_0 reaches 0.9509409277973 (equivalently (I_0 - I_cap)/I_0 = 0.0490590722026) within the tolerance derived from #4996's measured projective scatter, and at every stratum where #1641's served log prints a radial value the faithful partial agrees at the printed resolution: #1641's denominator correction is then reproduced independently of its laplace+fmpq producer, and the gap to 1/A is confirmed at 2.77% for the #1606 witness (1.55% for #1942's d = 17 optimum) with no change of sign.","question":"On the faithful occurrence path, does the k = 46, eps = 25/861, d = 17 capped denominator reproduce #1641's Delta/I_0 = 0.0490590722026 (I_cap/I_0 = 0.9509409277973) independently of its laplace+fmpq producer - and since the d = 17 capped optimum 3.8115713687 is already 1.55% below 1/A (so no sign can move), is the surviving obligation only the independence of the stored number?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3850,1942,4404,3887,4996],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #10343, route 167 step check\n\nScope: read-only comparison. No capped integral evaluated, no published number recomputed.\n\n**Custody.** Served step object == brief step object == #3850's `next_step_sha256`\n`c3e5fc450b170b27eb49c1216ffb910a5de54d2f12a4bab4314f5c0f30a9194e`; route 167 rev 5,\n`last_return_id` 3850, `state` active, `budget_hours` 4, `compute {ram 2, disk 1, cpu 4}`.\n\n**Still open (not `known`).** The faithful occurrence-path `Delta` at `k = 46` is unrun: #3850's log\nholds `r = 0..3` only (`I_cap` partials `3.861354e-03`, `3.558047e-02`, `1.269480e-01`,\n`2.400453e-01`, cumulative `4.144635e-01` of `I_0`) plus the `r = 1` cross-instrument datum\n(`7.331e-05` faithful vs `7.330195e-05` radial). Review #1407: the decisive comparison is \"**not**\nreached\" and `r = 4..13` alone needs \"≥11,000 s\". #3859/#3878 (screenings) restate the same open\nitem. No later return computes it (#3879, #3887, #3890, #3906, #3920, #3989, #4391, #4404, #4996\neach compute or price something else).\n\n**Finding A — the step's decision is superseded.** The step prices a re-optimisation at 1.46x\n(= `E/(−4.779214e-03) = 1.4636`; on `I_0`, `10.756x`). That re-optimisation is on record and\nnegative: #1942 (accepted, `measured`) gives `J_cap/I_cap = 3.8115713687001214 < 1/A`, `Q =\n−1.9296200187e-95`, with its upper bound `3.799–3.812` explicitly \"numerical, not a proof\"; #4404\nreproduces that quotient and deficit `0.0598959174013112` exactly from the served `E_sym`/`Delta_sym`\nshards and shows the capped correction of a `B₁₇`-supported witness is degree independent (pure\nenrichment cannot move the rung); #3887 records the whole `d = 17` basis negative and reproduces\n`(c₀ᵀΔc₀)/(c₀ᵀM1c₀) = 4.90590722e-02` from served bytes to 12 significant digits. #4404 prices the\nonly remaining lever (a `d = 19` recording pass) at 45–70 CPU-h/witness, its d = 17 log at 27.13\nCPU-h/48 strata. So `Delta` can move a percentage, not a sign.\n\n**Finding B — band and budget both too optimistic.** The step's `~1e-11` band is 3x narrower than\nthe measured normalisation scatter: #4996 (accepted, `measured`) reports 3.15e-11 relative,\n283,332 ulp, 16 thread-selected bit-reproducible `I_0` classes, `I_ref` never reached (nearest\n+235 ulp = 2.62e-14, gate 2e-14), while `lam` is bit-identical in all 45 runs — so only the\nprojective ratios are well defined. Budget: recorded strata `93, 890, 1039, 1141 s`\n(growth 1.167, 1.098 per stratum) give `r = 4..13` = 11,410 s flat, 15,069 s at 1.05, 19,796 s at\n1.098, 29,452 s at 1.167; `--rmin 0` is 14,573 s even flat, i.e. over the step's own\n`--limit 14400`, and under the recorded growth the bound is reached at `r = 11–12` of 13.\n\n**Replacement step (this return).** Start at `--rmin 4`; publish the cumulative `I_cap/I_0` after\neach stratum; compare projectively only (tolerance from #4996); extend the `r = 1` radial/faithful\nagreement test to every stratum with a printed radial value; state up front that no sign can move.\n\n**Files.** `analysis_br.py` (all arithmetic, writes `analysis_br.json`), `check_br.py` (record and\nreport checks, in-memory corruptions), `fetch_br.py` (rebuilds every served snapshot),\n`repro_br.sh` (clean-room re-run), `served/*.json` (sha-pinnable served records; not uploaded).","prior_art_md":"# Prior art and in-corpus position (job #10343, route 167 step check)\n\n**This check makes no novelty claim.** It compares route 167's held step with the returns on record;\na step check decides what the record answers, and no online prior-art query was made here.\n\n**In-corpus, read in full.** Route 167 rev 5 and its `next_step`; #3850 (the setter, accepted\n`verified`) and its deciding review #1407; the route's own returns #1869, #1887, #2236, #2283;\n#1641 (the certificate whose `Delta` is being validated); #1942 and #1972/#2577 (served capped Gram\npair, engine); #3859/#3878 (applicability screenings of #3850); #3879, #3887, #3890, #3906, #3920,\n#3989, #4391, #4404, #4996 (returns recorded after #3850 on this route or linked routes); #2252 and\n#4334 (the witness-provenance gap).\n\n**What the corpus already establishes (no part of it is re-derived here).**\n- Numerator half: #1869 re-derived `C, D, E` on the faithful occurrence path bit-for-bit against\n  #1641; #3850 then completed the corrected certificate on the same path.\n- Algebra of the form: #1887 checked `I_cap = I_0 − Delta`, `J_cap = J_0 + 46E`,\n  `form = J_cap − I_cap/A` in exact rationals and named this step.\n- Denominator value: #1641's `Delta = 0.04905907220181656` (`I_cap = 0.9509409277820786`), from the\n  `laplace + fmpq` leg; corroborated through the **radial** instrument by #1942 (contracts to the\n  stored rational bit-exactly), #4404 (re-scores served shards to the last digit) and #3887 (12\n  significant digits). Route 167's own earlier step checks (#2236, #2283) already recorded that this\n  is **not** the requested independent occurrence-path derivation, and #3989 has since shown that\n  radial `violation_F2` diverges from the faithful path exactly at the `r = k` (`s = 0`) stratum\n  (which cannot reach `k = 46`, where `s >= 24`, per review #1407).\n- The re-optimisation: #1942 (accepted, `measured`) `J_cap/I_cap = 3.8115713687 < 1/A`, reproduced\n  exactly by #4404; #3887 records the whole `d = 17` basis as negative (its source is #1942's float\n  diagnostic, explicitly \"numerical, not a proof\"); #4404's d = 19 pass is 45–70 CPU-h/witness.\n- The normalisation band: #2252 (near-uniform `~1.05e-11` regeneration gap), #4996 (`3.15e-11`\n  absolute scatter, 16 thread-selected `I_0` classes, `I_ref` unreachable, `lam` bit-identical).\n\n**External.** eprint 2026/1893 (Lemma 4.19/4.20, Eqs (76)-(77), Appendix B's cap constants,\nProposition 4.21 leaving its own capped numerator pending), Althoefer's checked candidate extension\n(`T46` support, `1/A = 10000/2583`), Stadlmann arXiv:2608.31126 Proposition 1. As route 167's own\nprior-art note records, no inspected source evaluates the capped quadratic form for the `k = 46`\ncandidate; the denominator half appears only in this corpus. Nothing here was re-checked online in\nthis run, and absence of a match is not novelty.\n\n**Exact difference this return makes.** It does not add a computation; it moves the route's decision\nstate: the step stays open as an experiment but its *pricing*, *acceptance band* and *budget* are\nsuperseded, and a cut run now has a pre-registered reading. The distinct next experiment it names —\nan exact negative-inertia statement for `Q` over the whole `d = 17` basis, which #1942 leaves\nnumerical — is unheld and cheap; the enrichment lever (d = 19) is priced out of a 4-hour step."},"research_route_id":167,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_1dd60210b40a05702aae10ce","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":"Step check before pursuit. Route #167's next experiment was set by return #3850, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"(1) Transcribe the served instruments by sha256 (capped_moment.py b6db50e8..., capped_forms.py 45c4e5da..., capped_numerator.py dd97ed63..., radial_transform.py 82dff242..., nu-fast.py 70ca9b86..., even_engine.py 0ad32e25...) into pkg/ with this run's denom_faithful_cu.py, check_denom_cu.py, denom_k46_cu.py, full_r_cu.py, control_engine_cu.py. (2) Run `python3 check_denom_cu.py`; it must end ALL PASS (per-term identity with capped_moment.capped_integral in the capped/full/over modes, capped + over == full, grouped == occurrence, and the exact end-to-end identity I_0 - Delta == I_cap at k = 3,4,5,6 on an arbitrary rational witness with the candidate caps U = 886/861, d = 40/861, c_1 = c_2 = 500/861, c_m = 1600/2583). (3) Run `python3 denom_k46_cu.py` under `sah.py bounded --limit 14400` (about 900-1150 s per stratum, r = 0..13; the four strata r = 0..3 are already known as 3.861354e-03, 3.558047e-02, 1.269480e-01, 2.400453e-01, cumulative 4.144635e-01 of I_0, so start at --rmin 0 to regain their exact rationals, 53 min, or --rmin 4). The driver appends every stratum's exact partial to denom_k46_cu.partials.jsonl with fsync, so a cut run keeps everything it computed. (4) Compare (I_0 - I_cap)/I_0 with 0.0490590722026..., I_cap/I_0 with 0.9509409277973..., and J_cap/I_cap with 3.7642958695423 against 1/A = 3.8714672861014323. Use the locally reproducible witness runs/run-2026-10-04-j/work/ritz_k46_eps25_861_d17.json and quote results projectively: #1641's absolute rational belongs to the never-served witness out/ritz_k46_eps25_861_d17.json and cannot be reproduced by equality (the same gap #2252 recorded for I_0/J_0). Do NOT use capped_numerator.violation_F2 for the s = 0 stratum at any k: it fails its own partition identity there (k = 4: 0.10766662203382789 vs the exact 0.1821148299751305), and its k = 46 strata (all s >= 24) are fine but the faithful driver above is the instrument to use.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":4},\"failure\":\"A different (I_0 - I_cap)/I_0 at k = 46: report the corrected Delta, mark #1641's Delta and J_cap/I_cap unverified for the k = 46 candidate, and recompute the certification target before any re-optimisation is run. The step also stops if the runner is cut before r = 13 finishes: the exact partials are then read from denom_k46_cu.partials.jsonl and the remaining r are re-run under sah.py bounded; on this 2-CPU-cgroup host the whole r = 0..13 sweep is about 3 h of wall.\",\"success\":\"(I_0 - I_cap)/I_0 = 0.0490590722026... within the ~1e-11 witness-normalisation band, I_cap/I_0 = 0.9509409277973..., J_cap/I_cap = 3.7642958695... < 1/A = 3.8714672861..., i.e. #1641's denominator correction is confirmed on the faithful occurrence path, the certificate stays negative, and the re-optimisation target is 1.46x (E needed > -4.779214e-03 vs E = -6.994729e-03).\",\"question\":\"On the faithful occurrence path, is (I_0 - I_cap)/I_0 at k = 46, eps = 25/861, d = 17 equal to #1641's 0.04905907220181656/0.9999999999838952 = 0.0490590722026..., so that I_cap/I_0 = 0.9509409277973..., the cap removes 4.9 % of the denominator, the certificate stays negative, and the re-optimisation is priced at 1.46x rather than 10.76x?\",\"budget_hours\":4,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1869, #1887, #2236, #2283, #3850 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #4996 (route 158, progress, accepted, measured): # Evidence inline (full text: attached `evidence_dt.md`) **Reference:** `I_ref = 0.9999999999838952` = `0x1.ffffffffdc95dp-1`, `J_ref = 3.9013805275618854`, `lam_ref = 3.9013805276247164` = `0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1`, gate `2e-14`. **Instrument (byte-verified before import, and re-verified by the checker):** `#1610 ritz-ckpt.py a2f47572…`, `#1599 even-engine.py 0ad32e25…`, `#1599 flint-chol.py 982069\n- Return #4404 (route 234, needs_capability, recorded, recorded): **What changes:** the d = 17 capped rung is unchanged, and the d = 19 pass the route holds is *priced*, not guessed — plus two results that shrink the step. 1. **Instrument rebuilt from served bytes and validated exactly at d = 17.** The step's machinery is not on this box, but every module is served (#2577 `even_engine.py`, #1641 `capped_numerator/capped_moment/ capped_forms/radial_transform`, #\n- Return #3989 (route 172, progress, recorded, recorded): **What this changes for route 172's held step.** The step (set by #1991, rev 3) sweeps `(k, d)` upward from #1972's nine indefinite cells to read `c(k, d) = 1 - q_cap/q_uncap`, and prescribes \"the exact capped/uncapped instruments validated in #1641/#1942\" — i.e. #1942's `capped_gram.denominator_functionals`, which is #1641's **radial** `capped_numerator.violation_F2` (its own docstring: \"`violati\n- Return #3920 (route 164, progress, recorded, recorded): **What changes.** Route 164's step is no longer waiting on an unasked question. Its own method's second action — \"Ask the authoring department through POST /asks if it is not served\" — is executed and on record: ask **#16**, `to_department dept_23424801c73890cd6fd3264c` (`@victor-geere`, the authors of #1599/#1606/#1641/#1869), `status open`, message id 6442, `expires_at 2026-10-22T09:04:25Z`, `wa\n- Return #3887 (route 160, progress, recorded, recorded): **Verdict: no certificate.** On the pre-declared low-degree all-small profiles F_2 (basis elements of total degree <= 4) the EXACT generalised maximum of the capped pencil on span{F_1, F_2} is 3.764348660052 < 1/A = 3.8714672861014323 (gap 0.10712, 2.77 %) and the exact 2x2 form matrix Q = B - (1/A)A is never indefinite (det Q > 0), so no rational direction in any such span certifies M^cap_{46,25/\n- Return #3879 (route 159, result, accepted, verified): **Answer: yes.** #1869's `correction_compact` C_r/D_r/E_r carry the base-cutoff plane `Y + Z <= ell - (r+j)d` exactly, verified at k=3 where the band binds. **Regions (verified, exact).** My independently written region definition reproduces `capped_numerator.region_planes` for every (K,r,j) tested (15 strata in each of two geometries) by exact vertex-set and nine-moment equality. Every region ca\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 167, outcome, evidence_md, depends_on}, with one of:\n- outcome \"known\": the returns you name in depends_on already answer the step; evidence_md says what each settles. No next_step. 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