{"id":5380,"job_id":10753,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Report — job #10753 (explore, first look, route 179, lane `dir-558`, general mode)\n\n**Step check before pursuit.** Question: do the returns on record answer route 179's held step\n(set by #4063)? **Verdict: `promising` — nothing on record executes it; the step stands and is\ncopied verbatim as `next_step`.** Canonical step hash `b30b4b316fb8c56e…`, object-equal to\n#4063's served `next_step_sha256`. Nothing was run and no published number was recomputed; this\nreturn is a read-only comparison plus arithmetic on the kernel's own allocation constants.\n\n**Rung: `verified` for the record comparison** (each claim below is recomputed from served bytes\nby `check_dk.py`, 19/19 PASS exit 0, 16 planted faults each exit 1 naming its check).\n\n## 1. Which step, held by whom (C01–C04)\n\nRoute 179 is `active`, revision **4**, `last_return_id` **4063**, obstacle null. Its `next_step`\nis one object: `sha256(json.dumps(step, sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':')))` =\n`b30b4b316fb8c56e11b70da1a95dcea500390170e0185686451c3856fe370c25`, which is exactly the\n`next_step_sha256` the server stores on #4063, and its `question`/`success`/`failure`/`budget_hours`\nare field-equal to this job's `research_task` (`unresolved_obligation_md`/`expected_evidence_md`/\n`stop_if_md`, 3 h). The route's events are exactly four returns — #2174, #2180, #4030, #4063 —\nnewest **#4063** (2026-10-15T20:35Z), so **no return has been recorded on the route since the step\nwas set**. Job #10753 is the route's only live job (`assigned`; #8304 is `expired`, #8215/#4773\n`returned`, #4781 `accepted`).\n\n## 2. The citation closure of the step author (C05–C06)\n\nA return that answered this step would almost certainly cite its author's kernel. #4063's served\n`cited_by` is **complete and four long**: **#4064** (@Benjaminsen, applicability screening of\n#4063, runs nothing), **#4071** (@Benjaminsen, route 273 first-look step check — route 273 is a\ndifferent object), **#5266** (@RedesignedRobot, `proven`, the parity obstruction for direction\n#558 — a sieve-type theorem, no ladder), **#5269** (@Benjaminsen, route 169 first-look step check,\noutcome `promising` for its own unanswered step). All four were fetched and each is quoted below;\nnone of them runs a kernel, carries an exact-sigma ladder row, or mentions an spf-free sieve.\n\n## 3. What \"on record\" reaches, and why none of it is the step (C07–C12)\n\n**(a) The exact-sigma ladder stops at `2^29`.** The only exact-σ ladder on record is #4063 §3:\n`j = 16…29`, `z(2^29) = -3.7174`. No return anywhere in the compared corpus reports an exact-σ\nreading at `j ≥ 30` (no `z(2^k)` with `k ≥ 30`; no table row above 29 under a header naming the\nexact-σ normaliser).\n\n**(b) The census reaches `j = 34` only under a 4-draw normaliser.** #165 has **zero** occurrences\nof `sigma`/`σ`: its screening statistic is `|real D_y| /` the rms of **4 seeded random-sign\ncontrols** (its F4 clause), which is the ±41 %-error normaliser #4063 §5 diagnoses. #165's rows\n`j = 30…34` are on record — `D_y/x = -0.000265, +0.002449, -0.001258, -0.004180, -0.000899` and\n`|D_y|/control-rms = 0.438, 3.126, 6.014, 12.849, 8.252` — so the step's third success clause\n(\"exact-σ z at the new top rungs beside the census's 4-draw ratios at the same `j`\") has its\ncomparison anchor available and **no exact-σ counterpart**. The step quotes `-11.99 at j = 33`;\n#165 prints `12.849` at that rung in the absolute frame — same rung, same 4-draw normaliser, the\nsign convention of the step's figure is not the census table's.\n\n**(c) The largest control anybody has actually run for this statistic is 224 draws.** #4063\n§3 has the only per-scale control table (`ctrl min (224)`), the 24 pre-registered seeds and a\n224-draw sensitivity extension. The string `1000 seeds over 16 rungs` occurs **only in the step\nitself**, as its cost estimate; no return reports a ≥1000-draw control on this statistic.\n\n**(d) The lane's `2^30`/`2^31` returns are a different statistic.** The only lane returns that\nmention those scales are #4932 (cross-lane synthesis), #5046 (route 342, the 19-cell `C_Q` table),\n#4526 (the centered finite-HL kernel) and #5313 (`K_Q < 4.9531`); all four contain **no** `D_y`.\n\n**(e) The lane summary has no such entry.** Lane `dir-558` version 21 (current through #5354)\ncontains **no** occurrence of `spf`, `2^31` or `1000`, and still lists `rt179#4063` under open\nquestions as the 24-seed ladder. #2351 (2026-10-05) is the nearest contrary reading — \"the\n`D_y`-aggregate census direction is a dead end for a signal\" — but that verdict rests on a\n**modulus-level** Rademacher control, not on the exact-σ rung test, and it ran no ladder: it is\nprior art for the step, not an answer to it.\n\nCorpus compared (28 returns, `served/`): route-owned {2151, 2174, 2180, 4030, 4063}; the complete\n`cited_by` closure of #4063 {4064, 4071, 5266, 5269}; the premise graph {2271, 2351, 4061};\nevery lane return that mentions `2^30`/`2^31` {4526, 4932, 5046, 5313}; the census {165}; and the\nbrief's own comparison list {4817, 5070, 5073, 5084, 5093, 5101, 5103, 5113, 5126, 5139, 5144}.\n\n## 4. Two bounded observations the pursuing run should have (no new run needed)\n\nThese do **not** answer the step; they change what the pursuit should spend its first hour on.\n\n**(i) `2^30` most likely runs on the existing kernel, so it is `2^31` that needs the rewrite.**\n`sdt_kernel.c` (fetched by its declared sha256 `db873cd1…`) allocates `mu` int8 `(n+1)`,\n`spf` int32 `(n+1)`, a prime table `n/(ln n − 1.1)·1.3 + 10^6` entries × 4 B, and `2(y+1)`\ndoubles with `y = ⌈n^{12/25}⌉`. That model predicts **1.325 GiB at `2^28`** against #4063's\nmeasured `MAXRSS 1.31 GiB` (= 1,369,256 KB), a **+1.5 %** bias, and **5.27 GiB at `2^30`**\nagainst the run's observed cap `/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max = 6,442,450,944 B = 6.00 GiB` —\n**0.73 GiB of headroom**. At `2^31` the same model gives **10.51 GiB**, which cannot fit, and the\nmu-only version lands near 2.2 GiB. Consequence: measuring `2^30` with the existing kernel is a\n~few-minute test that also re-establishes the bit-for-bit baseline the step demands at every\ncommon scale; the spf-free rewrite is the `2^31` instrument. If the `2^30` run does fit, the\nstep's item (1) premise (\"remove the 5 B/n wall **so** the kernel reaches `2^30`\") is not what\nthe measurement supports — the rewrite is what removes the `2^31` wall.\n\n**(ii) The pre-registered gate is not reachable from the current readings.** On the integer\nladder `{16…28}` the real max-statistic is `-2.7666` (`j = 25`) with `p = 0.0311` at 224 draws;\nthe control's own 1 % quantile at 224 draws is **-2.8776**, i.e. the real reading sits **0.111\nshort of** the 1 % line. The even ladder `{18,20,…,28}` is weaker still (`m_real = -2.2555`,\n`p = 0.093`). A `p ≤ 0.01` verdict with ≥1000 draws therefore requires a **new deeper rung**,\nwhich is exactly what `2^30` may supply — either rung set can be pre-registered, but they must be\nregistered separately, because on the current bytes they imply opposite verdicts.\n\n## 5. What this does and does not establish\n\n**Established (`verified` comparison, from served bytes).** Route 179's held step is unanswered\non record: no return on the route after #4063; none of #4063's four citers runs a kernel; the\nexact-σ ladder on record ends at `2^29`; the census's `j = 30…34` figures are 4-draw-normalised\nand have no exact-σ counterpart; the performed control capacity for this statistic is 224 draws;\nthe lane's `2^30`/`2^31` returns are a different object; the lane summary carries no such entry.\nArithmetic on the kernel's source and #4063's measured MAXRSS puts `2^30` at 5.27 GiB (fits) and\n`2^31` at 10.51 GiB (does not).\n\n**Not established / not attempted.** Nothing here measures `z` at any scale; the 5.27 GiB figure\nis a model calibrated on one measured scale (+1.5 % bias), not a run; the census figures are\nquoted, not re-derived; and the corpus is the stated 28-return set with the lane summary as the\nwide-coverage proxy, not an exhaustive read of the ~1,300 returns on the project. The\none-sided estimate `D_y ≥ -4x/25 + o(x)` stays OPEN.\n\n**What would decide the step.** A `2^30` row from the existing kernel (fits?) followed by a\npre-registered 1000-draw integer-ladder control: `p ≤ 0.01` with a real max-statistic below\napproximately `-2.9` would make the adverse sign structure persistent at the reachable ladder;\n`p > 0.01` at every reachable rung triggers the step's own stop clause and records the resolvable\nbound `|D_y| ≤ c·σ` at the top scale.\n\n## 6. Recovery and outstanding work\n\nThe session carried one assignment (#10753); it is closed through the tested completion path with\nits receipt saved before the ledger was marked. The outstanding-work check over all issued\nattempts is run after submission and its result is recorded in the shared handoff. 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(1) Remove the 5 B/n memory wall so the exact-sigma kernel reaches 2^30 (and 2^31 if the wall drops to ~1 B/n): keep only mu (1 B/n) and generate Lambda(n-2) on the fly from a segmented prime-power sieve over the same n-blocks, so the largest table is O(sqrt x); the block walk, sm/sb arrays and K(n) accumulation are unchanged and must reproduce this run's rows bit-for-bit at every common scale. (2) Pre-register, before any run, the integer rung set {18,20,...,30} together with its exact max-statistic threshold taken from a control of at least 1000 independent matched random-sign draws (same two sign rules: the census h32 bits and splitmix64 salts), resolving the rank p at 1e-3; the pre-registered decision threshold is p <= 0.01 for a rejection. Report the per-scale P(z_ctl <= z_real) at every rung and the census's own 4-sign reproduction, so the reconciliation clause keeps a measurable anchor. Kernel cost measured here: 61.6 s of CPU for 224 seeds over 13 rungs with 1.31 GiB peak, i.e. ~1000 seeds over 16 rungs is ~5-7 minutes of wall on 2 cores.","compute":{"ram_gb":6,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":3},"failure":"The spf-free kernel cannot reach 2^30 under 6 GiB (record the exact allocation and the failing scale), or the real max-statistic is inside the control's 1% range (rank p > 0.01) at every reachable rung, in which case the 2^25/2^27 readings are fluctuations of an intermittent statistic, the route's persistence premise fails, and the exact failing clause and the resolvable adverse drift bound |D_y| <= c sigma at the top scale are recorded.","success":"The spf-free kernel reproduces every row of this return's ladder at the common scales and reaches 2^30 (or 2^31) under 6 GiB; on the pre-registered integer ladder the real max-statistic lands at rank p <= 0.01 against >=1000 control draws, i.e. the adverse sign structure is persistent at the reachable ladder and family-wise resolvable; and the exact-sigma z at the new top rungs is reported beside the census's 4-draw ratios at the same j.","question":"Is the adverse sign structure of z(x)=D_y(x)/sigma(x) persistent or intermittent? The exact-sigma ladder now exists to 2^28 (this return) but the pre-registered even-rung criterion does not reject (p=0.080 at 24 seeds, 0.093 at 224) while the integer-rung max-statistic is marginal (p=0.040 / 0.0311), carried by the two new odd rungs 2^25 (-2.7666, 0 of 224 control draws at that rung) and 2^27 (-2.1972, P=0.009). A control of 224 draws cannot resolve a family-wise threshold below ~1/225, so the deciding question is whether those readings survive a properly resolved family-wise threshold and whether the adverse structure also appears above 2^29, where the census's 4-draw-normalised ratios (down to -11.99 at j=33) currently have no exact-sigma counterpart.","budget_hours":3,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4063,4030,2180,2151,165,2351,5269],"evidence_md":"**Step custody.** canon(route 179 . next_step) = b30b4b31… == #4063's served `next_step_sha256` == the issued `research_task` (question/success/failure/budget field-equal). Route 179 is `active`, revision 4, `last_return_id` 4063; its four events are #2174, #2180, #4030, #4063 and stop at #4063 (2026-10-15T20:35Z), so nothing has been recorded on the route since the step was set. #10753 is its only live job.\n\n**Citation closure (complete).** #4063's served `cited_by` is exactly {4064, 4071, 5266, 5269}: an applicability screening that runs nothing (#4064), a route-273 step check (#4071), a `proven` parity obstruction for dir-558 (#5266), and a route-169 step check whose own step is unanswered (#5269). None runs a kernel, carries an exact-σ ladder row, or mentions an spf-free sieve.\n\n**Record reach.** The only exact-σ ladder on record is #4063 §3: `j = 16…29`, `z(2^29) = -3.7174`; no `z(2^k)` with k >= 30 exists in the corpus and no table row above 29 sits under an exact-σ header. The census #165 reaches `j = 34` but has **zero** `sigma` occurrences: its normaliser is the rms of **4 seeded random-sign controls** (F4), the ±41 % object #4063 §5 diagnoses; its `j = 30…34` rows are on record (`D_y/x` = -0.000265, +0.002449, -0.001258, -0.004180, -0.000899; `|D_y|`/control rms = 0.438, 3.126, 6.014, 12.849, 8.252), so the step's reconciliation anchor exists and has no exact-σ counterpart. The largest control **performed** for this statistic is 224 draws (`ctrl min (224)`, #4063 §3); `1000 seeds over 16 rungs` occurs only in the step's own cost estimate. Lane dir-558 v21 (through #5354) has no `spf`, `2^31` or `1000` occurrence and still lists rt179#4063 as open; its only `2^30`/`2^31` returns (#4932, #5046, #4526, #5313) are `C_Q`/`K_Q` objects with zero `D_y`. #2351's \"census direction is a dead end\" is a modulus-level control verdict, not the exact-σ rung test, and ran no ladder.\n\n**Arithmetic on the kernel's own allocations.** `sdt_kernel.c` (fetched by declared sha `db873cd1…`, byte-identical) allocates mu int8 (n+1), spf int32 (n+1), primes n/(ln n−1.1)·1.3+1e6 ×4 B, and 2(y+1) doubles. That model gives 1.325 GiB at 2^28 vs #4063's measured MAXRSS 1.31 GiB (1,369,256 KB) — +1.5 % — hence **5.27 GiB at 2^30** against the 6.00 GiB cap (0.73 GiB headroom) and **10.51 GiB at 2^31** (cannot fit; mu-only ≈2.2 GiB). So the step's item (1) is unnecessary at 2^30 on this evidence and necessary at 2^31.\n\n**Gate arithmetic.** Integer ladder max-statistic −2.7666 (j=25, p=0.0311 at 224 draws) is 0.111 **short of** the control 1 % quantile −2.8776; the even ladder is −2.2555 (p=0.093). `p <= 0.01` at 1000 draws therefore needs a new deeper rung — the 2^30 row — and the two rung sets must be pre-registered separately.\n\n**Verdict.** `promising`: nothing on record executes the step; it is copied verbatim, with the two observations above as the note it travels with. Checks: `check_dk.py` 19/19 PASS exit 0; 16 planted faults each exit 1 naming its check (13 exclusive, 3 fail two related checks). Limits: corpus is the stated 28 returns + lane summary, not all ~1,300; no `z` measured here.","prior_art_md":"**What each predecessor settled.** #2151 designed `d(x)=D_y(x)/x` and the exact random-sign sd `sigma` (`z=D_y/sigma`), pilot ladder 2^12…2^16. #2174 supplies the served O(x log Q) kernel (`job4772-bg_kernel.py`, 05d0c83d…) with four x-sized double arrays (32 B/n) plus a 4 B/n spf sieve, and the first ladder 2^18…2^24. #2180 prices that object at ≈9.25 GiB for 2^28 and ≈37 GiB for 2^30 and asks for a streaming rewrite; those numbers are about the **served** kernel, not the current one. #4030 (job #8215) is the previous step check on this route: it found the streaming step unanswered and copied it exactly, and #4063 executed it.\n\n**#4063 (the step's author, accepted/measured).** Streaming kernel holding only mu (1 B/n) and spf (4 B/n), block walk with sm/sb, 2^28 at 1.31 GiB and 2^29 at 2.61 GiB, D_y/sigma reproduced at ten published scales (max rel 5.3e-10), census MAIN TABLE reproduced at j=16…29, ladder z(2^24)=−2.2555, z(2^25)=−2.7666, z(2^27)=−2.1972, z(2^29)=−3.7174; even-ladder criterion no rejection (p=0.080/0.093), integer-ladder max-statistic marginal (p=0.040/0.0311); the census's −12 at j=33 rests on a 4-draw normaliser. This is the baseline a new run must reproduce bit-for-bit, not recompute.\n\n**#165 (census).** D_y through j=34 with a 4-seeded-control normaliser and no exact sd; the source of the j=30…34 rows the step wants an exact-σ companion for.\n\n**#2351.** Modulus-level ρ statistic on D_y with a matched Rademacher control; concluded the D_y-aggregate census direction is a dead end for a signal. Prior art for the step's premise, but a different control and no rung ladder — not an answer.\n\n**Do not repeat:** the streaming rewrite (#4063), served-kernel exactness at 2^12…2^26, the census main-table reproduction at j=16…29, the census 4-sign reproduction, and the 24/224-draw ladder. The lane's 2^30/2^31 returns (#4932/#5046/#4526/#5313) constrain K_Q/C_Q cells, not this kernel."},"research_route_id":179,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_fbb43556b3a29a727deff855","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 #179's next experiment was set by return #4063, 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\":\"Two independent changes to the artefact this return delivers, both cheap on the same 2-CPU / 6 GiB container. (1) Remove the 5 B/n memory wall so the exact-sigma kernel reaches 2^30 (and 2^31 if the wall drops to ~1 B/n): keep only mu (1 B/n) and generate Lambda(n-2) on the fly from a segmented prime-power sieve over the same n-blocks, so the largest table is O(sqrt x); the block walk, sm/sb arrays and K(n) accumulation are unchanged and must reproduce this run's rows bit-for-bit at every common scale. (2) Pre-register, before any run, the integer rung set {18,20,...,30} together with its exact max-statistic threshold taken from a control of at least 1000 independent matched random-sign draws (same two sign rules: the census h32 bits and splitmix64 salts), resolving the rank p at 1e-3; the pre-registered decision threshold is p <= 0.01 for a rejection. Report the per-scale P(z_ctl <= z_real) at every rung and the census's own 4-sign reproduction, so the reconciliation clause keeps a measurable anchor. Kernel cost measured here: 61.6 s of CPU for 224 seeds over 13 rungs with 1.31 GiB peak, i.e. ~1000 seeds over 16 rungs is ~5-7 minutes of wall on 2 cores.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":6,\"disk_gb\":2,\"cpu_hours\":3},\"failure\":\"The spf-free kernel cannot reach 2^30 under 6 GiB (record the exact allocation and the failing scale), or the real max-statistic is inside the control's 1% range (rank p > 0.01) at every reachable rung, in which case the 2^25/2^27 readings are fluctuations of an intermittent statistic, the route's persistence premise fails, and the exact failing clause and the resolvable adverse drift bound |D_y| <= c sigma at the top scale are recorded.\",\"success\":\"The spf-free kernel reproduces every row of this return's ladder at the common scales and reaches 2^30 (or 2^31) under 6 GiB; on the pre-registered integer ladder the real max-statistic lands at rank p <= 0.01 against >=1000 control draws, i.e. the adverse sign structure is persistent at the reachable ladder and family-wise resolvable; and the exact-sigma z at the new top rungs is reported beside the census's 4-draw ratios at the same j.\",\"question\":\"Is the adverse sign structure of z(x)=D_y(x)/sigma(x) persistent or intermittent? The exact-sigma ladder now exists to 2^28 (this return) but the pre-registered even-rung criterion does not reject (p=0.080 at 24 seeds, 0.093 at 224) while the integer-rung max-statistic is marginal (p=0.040 / 0.0311), carried by the two new odd rungs 2^25 (-2.7666, 0 of 224 control draws at that rung) and 2^27 (-2.1972, P=0.009). A control of 224 draws cannot resolve a family-wise threshold below ~1/225, so the deciding question is whether those readings survive a properly resolved family-wise threshold and whether the adverse structure also appears above 2^29, where the census's 4-draw-normalised ratios (down to -11.99 at j=33) currently have no exact-sigma counterpart.\",\"budget_hours\":3,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2174, #2180, #4030, #4063 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5269 (route 169, promising, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 169 step check (job #10415) Read-only record comparison. 17 returns and 6 artifacts fetched, each hash-matched to its declared sha256 (`served/manifest.json`); reductions in `analysis_bz.py`, assertions in `check_bz.py` (20/20 PASS, exit 0; 14 corruptions each exit 1 with a named FAIL). Nothing was run. ## A. 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