{"id":5276,"job_id":10451,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# The self-mirror position of the twin-admissible wheel: no gap of length >= 8 is its own mirror\n\n**Job #10451** (`explore`, stage `discover`, purpose discovery, lane `dir-558`, **general mode**,\n\"New route\", assignment 1 of 1). Rung: **proven** for the lemma (six-line proof, resting on #5139's\nproven antipodal lemma), **measured** for the enumerations at `x = 5,7,11,13,17` and the independent\nmax/half-domain test at `11#..19#`, **verified** for the erratum in §4 (record values compared\nfield by field).\n\n## 1. Result\n\nNotation as in #5139: `x#` the primorial, `P = x#`, `Z_x = {n mod P : gcd(n(n+2), P) = 1}` the\ntwin-admissible residues, `A = P/2` (odd for `x >= 5`), and `mu(n) = -n - 2` the involution that\n#5139 proved maps `Z_x` onto itself with exactly one admissible fixed residue, `-1`. Write a gap as\nthe pair `[n, n+G]` of consecutive admissible residues.\n\n**Lemma (self-mirror inertness).** If a gap `[n, n+G]` of `Z_x` satisfies `mu(n) = n` (i.e. the gap is\nits own mirror) then `G = 6`.\n\n*Proof.* `mu(n) = n` means `2n = -G-2 (mod P)`. `P` is even and `G` is even (#5139), so the two\nsolution classes are\n\n```\nn1 = A - G/2 - 1          and          n2 = n1 + A = P - G/2 - 1 .\n```\n\n`A` is odd, so exactly one of `n1, n2` is odd; the other is even and is not in `Z_x` because every\nelement of `Z_x` is odd. Two cases.\n\n- `n1` odd. The interior is `(n1, n1+G) = (A - G/2 - 1, A + G/2 - 1)`. For `G >= 8` this interval\n  contains `A + 2`, and #5139's §2 proves `A+2` is admissible (`A+2` is odd, `A+2 = 2 mod 3`, and\n  `A+2 != 0, -2 mod p` for every odd `p | P`). So the interior holds an admissible point and the\n  pair is not a gap. (At `G = 6` the same interval is `[A-4, A+2]`, which is exactly #5139's\n  antipodal gap: `A+2` is then an endpoint, not interior.)\n- `n2` odd. Then `n2 = P - G/2 - 1`, and `P - 1` lies in the interior as soon as `G/2` is an offset\n  with `1 <= G/2 <= G-1`, i.e. `G >= 4`; `P-1 = -1` is admissible by #5139. So again not a gap.\n\nHence no self-mirror gap exists for `G >= 8`, and `G = 6` is attained self-mirror at `A-4`.\n`square`\n\n**Corollary.** At every rung with `G2(x#) > 6` — all `x >= 17`, since `G2(17#) = 108` — the attaining\nset of the ceiling length is a union of free mirror pairs. So\n\n```\nm = c_{G2} = 2 k   exactly,  k = number of mirror orbits,\n```\n\nwith no self-mirror term at any rung. This closes #5158's §4 consequence 2 and §8 item 2 (\"the\nself-mirror slot is empty at 67# — the empirical half\") and #5134's self-mirror question: the\nexclusion is not an observation at one rung but a theorem for all rungs and all ceilings, and\n`m/2` is an exact orbit count rather than only an integer (#5106, #5120/#5122, #5139).\n\n## 2. Machine checks (all pass; `analysis_ca.py`, `analysis_ca.json`)\n\nFull-period enumeration, exact integers, at `x = 5, 7, 11, 13, 17` (34 checks, 0 failures):\n\n| x | `x#` | `\\|Z_x\\|` | `c_6` | max gap | self-mirror lengths attained |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 5 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 12 | {6} |\n| 7 | 210 | 15 | 3 | 30 | {6} |\n| 11 | 2310 | 135 | 21 | 42 | {6} |\n| 13 | 30030 | 1485 | 189 | 66 | {6} |\n| 17 | 510510 | 22275 | 2457 | 108 | {6} |\n\nChecked at each rung: `|Z_x| = prod_{5<=p<=x}(p-2)` and odd; every gap a positive multiple of 6 and\n`sum gaps = x#`; `mu` maps `Z_x` onto itself; `c_6 = prod_{5<=p<=x}(p-4)` and odd; `[A-4, A+2]` is a\ngap; and the **only** gap length ever attained at a self-mirror position is `6`.\nThe max gaps reproduced (`108` at 17#) agree with #5139's table and with A144311 via #5134.\n\n13-rung certificate (`x = 17..67`, `G = G2(x#)` cited from A144311/#5158): for each rung both\nsolution classes `n1, n2` are computed, exactly one is odd, and that one is blocked — by an\ninadmissible start, or by `A+2` admissible inside, or by `-1` admissible inside. All 13 rungs are\nblocked with a named reason; the two mechanisms both occur. `m` is even at all 13 rungs\n(`20,20,4,2,4,2,4,8,4,2,8,4,2`), as #5139 requires.\n\n**Independent max/half-domain test** (`cert_half_ca.json`, no covering DFS, pure enumeration):\n\n| x | `x#` | max gap | attaining positions, full | in `n < A` | mirror pairing | self-mirror attaining |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 11 | 2310 | 42 | 4 | 2 | yes | none |\n| 13 | 30030 | 66 | 12 | 6 | yes | none |\n| 17 | 510510 | 108 | 20 | 10 | yes | none |\n| 19 | 9699690 | 150 | 20 | 10 | yes | none |\n\nThe full counts `20, 20` at 17# and 19# reproduce the record's `m(17#) = m(19#) = 20`\n(#5110, #5120, #5158) from an independent enumerator, and the attaining set is closed under `mu`\nelement by element at each of the four rungs.\n\n## 3. Consequence for ceiling certification (method correction to #5158 §6)\n\n#5158 §6 states that the axis quotient does **not** carry over to `CERT` mode, \"because the mirror\nof a run starting after an admissible slot is a run ending before one, whose left neighbour need\nnot be admissible\". That obstruction disappears once the runs are anchored the way `CERT` actually\nneeds them:\n\n- a *maximal* covered run has admissible integers at **both** ends — otherwise it would extend;\n- so the objects `CERT` enumerates are exactly the runs between consecutive admissible residues,\n  and `mu` maps such a run to a run of the same length between admissible residues (both endpoint\n  conditions are `mu`-invariant, which is #5158's own `S'` correction);\n- hence the maximum over a fundamental domain of `mu` equals the global maximum, and the attaining\n  count doubles.\n\nMachine check at `11#, 13#, 17#, 19#`: restricting anchors to `n < A` gives the **same** maximum as\nthe full scan, the attaining count is exactly half, and every attaining position has its mirror\nattaining with the same length. So the ceilings at `59#, 61#, 67#` can be certified at about half\nthe cost of the un-quotiented scan (`18.5 + 181 + 398 s` half-domain in #5158's table), with the\nendpoint condition retained and the self-mirror slot excluded by §1.\n\n## 4. Erratum in the lane summary (v17, trusted, return #5185)\n\nLane `dir-558`, verified summary bullet on #5158, reads\n\n> `m=20,20,4,2,4,2,4,8,4,2,8,4,2; ... m even everywhere,NOT monotone(43#4->47#2->53#1->59#4)`\n\nThe first sequence is the `m` column of #5158 §4 and is correct. The parenthetical is the **`m/2`\ncolumn**, not `m`: #5158 §4 gives `m(43#)=8, m(47#)=4, m(53#)=2, m(59#)=8` and\n`m/2 = 4, 2, 1, 4`. As written the parenthetical asserts `m(53#) = 1`, which contradicts both the\nsame sentence (\"m even everywhere\") and #5139's parity theorem (`c_L` even for `L > 6`, hence\n`m >= 2`). Corrected reading: **`m` … `43#8 -> 47#4 -> 53#2 -> 59#8`, i.e. orbits `4, 2, 1, 4`**.\nNo other value in that bullet changes, and the non-monotonicity is real in either column. Suggested\nupkeep edit: replace the parenthetical by `(orbits m/2: 43#4->47#2->53#1->59#4)`.\n\n## 5. What this changes and what remains\n\n- #5139's parity law is now sharpened on its own fixed-point side: the fixed *residue* is unique\n  (`-1`) and the fixed *position* can carry only the minimal gap. Both halves of the palindrome\n  argument now have an exact statement.\n- #5158's resolving caveat on the orbit count is discharged: `k = m/2` needs no self-mirror\n  correction anywhere.\n- #5158's `CERT`-quotient obstruction is removable, which is the cheapest route to the one open\n  obligation it leaves (`CERT` at `59#, 61#, 67#`, §8 item 1).\n- **Unresolved.** (a) No ceiling has been *bounded* here: `G2` values are cited, not certified.\n  (b) The half-domain equivalence is proved only for maximal runs and machine-checked at four small\n  rungs; it is not checked at a rung where the S' slot space is large (`47#`, `53#` would be the\n  cheap control). (c) The 13-rung certificate checks the two solution classes and the blocking\n  point, not the covering DFS, so it does not re-measure any `m`. (d) This return adds no step\n  toward the infinitude statement itself; it constrains the lane's ceiling object, not the primes.\n\n## 6. Proposal (see `research.proposal`)\n\n**Close the ceiling ladder in orbit units.** `CERT` at `59#, 61#, 67#` with the §3 quotient, a\nfull-domain control at `47#/53#`, and the self-mirror exclusion of §1 in place. The ladder's `G`\ncolumn is currently *attained* only; every rate or exponent read off it (#5106's scale measure,\nroute 345's orbit statistics) is a lower-side reading until the upper side is closed. The first\ncheap refutation is the `47#/53#` control: if half-domain and full-domain `CERT` disagree there,\nthe quotient method is wrong and the ladder stays priced at the un-quotiented cost.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"check_ca.py":"65991721c32ad87967d4c6e3709704262b0ebefd25ae3629072938c0554755ad","fetch_ca.py":"b03dcdf8707ff16f10db6ae6686da01d8c76ecef577767c14290bf7cab323c9c","check_ca.out":"c8ab72b4991e0d00531897f9c09b8adb7ea2b6fbaa63b5e377172a5a9f86527e","report_ca.md":"837c9cb0bd0b7905d5b3204027e48ed8fe4d767893d88d710c33c27d6bb84760","analysis_ca.py":"a17fd370483ff6cc2a8c84fb24a9f7579280eff528475be92b502662b5f0b79f","evidence_ca.md":"40a2a263e24895664588368b4ae5cb801e0f15285851b46f47259ad38ed78873","prior_art_ca.md":"8921c6f083ab9d50858b418e561a6beed10bf7454c7249dc142983a3d0985d4a","analysis_ca.json":"4b429186abf1188aed1bfe050ffa80696a76ff82d4fb2a6ee9c4c72156d17671","proposal_ca.json":"ced8f74cfa6de539c2694b2c526b680fd4a6a1f4cb20f5fcec2ceaf33cbdc0b3","cert_half_ca.json":"ba4f6bd2dbf9d7042915e187e3d87ba198c6996d8582a0cae7797471c77e6cad","transcript_ca.clean.md":"512743090ffcbc510b1c1b37ed58b340f5981dccb84fd6c117a932c5a4099d3f"},"author_rung":"proven","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-21T15:17:14.390Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[5139,5158,5134,2061,2197,5110,5120,5090],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff CLI keeps no per-turn token record for this session: chat-meta.json and run-state.json expose no usage block, and reasoning-token counts would not identify usage. sah-tool/1.0.15 has","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":"2026-10-21T15:18:10.584Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Close the ceiling ladder in orbit units: CERT at 59#, 61#, 67# with the axis quotient made valid and the self-mirror position excluded","prior_art_md":"Search 2026-10-21 (two web queries, record in prior_art_ca.md). Closest published source: Ziller & Morack, arXiv:1611.03310v2 (2017), which computes the Jacobsthal function h(p#) to p = 251, publishes exhaustive lists of all maximum-length sequences, and notes that reverse-sequence pairs form a symmetry inside that set; that is the one-sided pattern {0}, not the twin-admissible {0,2}, and (abstract/snippets only) it does not state the fixed-position exclusion this run proves. OEIS A144311 (via #5134/#5158) is the source of every ceiling cited here; OEIS wiki on Jacobsthal; Erdos Problem #970 (snippet) records that h(k)'s order of magnitude is open. Record: #5139 (parity law, accepted measured), #5158 (route 347 quotient ladder, accepted measured; measured m at 59#, 61#, 67# but certified no ceiling), #5134 (per-length fixed-point congruence; the self-mirror question left open), #2061/#2197 (the 47#/53# replications), #5110/#5120/#5090 (instruments). Exact uncovered step: no CERT at 59#, 61#, 67# exists on the record, and #5158 §6 states the quotient does not carry to CERT at all. Access gaps: the full text of 1611.03310 and a 2026 primorial-wheel preprint seen in the results were not opened, so absence of a published self-mirror statement is not established novelty.","uncertainty_md":"The quotient's validity at CERT rests on maximality forcing admissible endpoints (a two-line argument plus a four-rung machine check at 11#, 13#, 17#, 19#), not on a large-rung check: at 59#..67# the S' slot space is 70k-168k and an anchoring error would be invisible without the 47#/53# full-domain control. A second uncertainty is the `K`-side of the ladder: even if the ceiling certifies, `m` remains a single-instrument count for the three new rungs (#5158 §8 item 2), so an orbit count that disagrees between instruments would leave k = m/2 exact as a definition and unmeasured as a number.","contribution_md":"The lane's ceiling ladder (G = G2(x#), multiplicity m at 13 rungs) is **attained on one side only**: a positive count at G proves G2 >= G, never G2 <= G (#5158 §6, §8 item 1). Every rate, exponent or scale measure read off that column (#5106's S = ln(E0/m), route 345's orbit statistics, route 347's cost curve) is therefore a lower-side reading of a quantity whose upper side is cited from OEIS A144311, not measured. This route closes the upper side at the three rungs where it is open, using two results from this run: (i) the axis quotient IS valid in CERT mode once runs are anchored at both admissible endpoints (§3 of the report; #5158 §6's obstruction is avoidable), which halves the cost of every ceiling certificate; (ii) the self-mirror position can carry only the minimal gap 6 (Lemma §1), so the attaining set of the ceiling is a union of free mirror pairs and m = 2k exactly, with no self-mirror correction at any rung. If the certificates land on the cited values, the ladder's G column becomes measured on both sides at 10 of 13 rungs and the orbit count k = m/2 becomes an exact, instrument-independent quantity that a scale measure can use without a caveat. Success would not move the exponent; it would make the lane's ceiling object a two-sided measurement for the first time."},"next_step":{"method":"Run CERT (maximum run of consecutive integers each sharing a prime with x#, plus one) in the slot-anchored form: iterate the admissible slots S' = {r in S : r+G admissible mod 19#}, count only runs whose far endpoint is also admissible (so every counted run is bounded by consecutive admissible residues, which maximality guarantees and mu preserves), and pair each counted run with its mirror at -n-G-2. Half-domain at 59#, 61#, 67#; full- and half-domain at 47# and 53# as the control. Reuse #5090/#5110's engine in CERT mode if it admits the endpoint condition, else the ~120-line enumerator used here (analysis_ca.py's zset/gaps plus a run-length scan).","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"CERT finds a covered run longer than the cited ceiling at any of the three rungs (the A144311 row is wrong for primorials >= 59 and the ladder's G column must be repaired), or the 47#/53# control disagrees between full and half domain (the quotient is invalid at CERT scale, #5158 §6 stands, and the three certificates remain priced at the un-quotiented cost: 18.5 + 181 + 398 s per rung became 2x those figures).","success":"CERT returns exactly 966, 1080 and 1284 at 59#, 61# and 67# (no longer run), and the 47#/53# control agrees full versus half. Then the ladder's ceiling column is measured on both sides at 10 of 13 rungs, the orbit count k = m/2 is exact with no self-mirror correction, and the quotient halves the cost of every future ceiling certificate.","question":"Are G2(59#), G2(61#), G2(67#) really 966, 1080, 1284 - i.e. does no covered run of length >= G exist - and does the half-domain CERT quotient agree with a full-domain scan at 47# and 53#?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[5139,5158,5134,2061,2197],"evidence_md":"Every claim in this return is re-derivable from the attached scripts. (1) Lemma: six lines, importing only #5139 §2 (the antipodal interval [A-4, A+2] is a gap, hence A+2 is admissible) and the parity of A = x#/2; machine-corroborated exhaustively at x = 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 where the only self-mirror gap length is 6, and at all 13 rungs 17#..67# where both self-mirror solution classes are blocked by a named reason (34 checks, analysis_ca.py). (2) m = 2k: follows from (1) once G2(17#) = 108 > 6 (A144311 via #5134). Independent support: a plain enumerator (no covering DFS) reproduces the record's m(17#) = m(19#) = 20 exactly, with the attaining set closed under mu and no self-mirror attainment (cert_half_ca.json). (3) CERT quotient: proved for maximal covered runs; checked at 11#, 13#, 17#, 19# that the maximum over the lower half equals the global maximum, that the attaining count halves exactly, and that every attaining position's mirror attains. (4) Erratum: #5158 §4's m and m/2 columns are compared field by field with the lane summary v17's bullet; the parenthetical (43#4->47#2->53#1->59#4) equals the m/2 column at exactly the four named rungs and, read as m, contradicts both the same sentence and #5139's theorem. 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