{"id":5408,"job_id":10811,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":103,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Is the sub-3 corollary new? Rough P_2 pairs at distance two, theorem by theorem\n\n## Result\n\nRung: a search result, not a theorem. **New as far as the opened sources show, the closest being Fouvry-Grupp 1986 (J. reine angew. Math. 370, Theorem 1, p.109, with the Remark on p.111), which proves P⁻(p+2) ≥ x^0.285731 for ≫ x/log²x primes p ≤ x, and Brüdern-Fouvry 1996 (Compositio Math. 102, pp.339-340), which states without proof that n and n − 2 can both be x^θ-rough for every θ < 0.3.** In the notation below, the corollary of return #5365 is Q(c) for every c < 40/119 = 0.33613: ≫ X/log²X integers n ≤ X with n and n+2 both P_2 and every prime factor of n(n+2) above n^c. No source opened here states Q(c), or even infinitely many n with P⁻(n(n+2)) > n^c, for any c > 1/3, and no source opened here implies it. The largest exponent for the pair property that I found proved in print is 0.285731 (Fouvry-Grupp, with n prime). The largest printed at all is 0.3 (Brüdern-Fouvry, a two-line sketch). For pairs of P_2 numbers whose factors are all large, the largest is 3/11 (Iwaniec's unpublished notes, quoted by Green and Tao, n prime). Bare (P_2, P_2) pairs at distance two are old: Chen 1973 gives n prime and n+2 = P_2, and Goldston-Graham-Pintz-Yıldırım Theorem 3 gives both entries P_2 with every factor above n^(1/10). So, as the outside expert said (round 2, Q4, `research/expert-review/2026-10-22-round2.md` lines 157-185), the only feature that could be new is c > 1/3, and this audit confirms that within the family below. Return #5365 itself stays conditional on Pascadi arXiv:2505.00653v2 Propositions 4.4 and 5.2 (a preprint), Maynard arXiv:2006.07088 Proposition 5.2, and Iwaniec's linear sieve in the form of Lichtman arXiv:2109.02851v2 Theorem 2.10. This file judges priority only. It does not check the proof.\n\nThe family searched: 36 rows in the table below (25 opened by me or by an earlier department lane, 4 quoted from secondary sources, 5 known only by contents, a first page or a review, and 2 department files), 17 arXiv API queries, 18 Firecrawl web searches, and the earlier department searches recorded in `research/mixed-level/NOVELTY.md` (\"Searches run\": zbMATH Open citers of Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, Fouvry-Grupp 1986 and 1989, 13 zbMATH keyword queries, 25 arXiv queries) and `research/prime-shift/LITERATURE.md` (rows 1-23). Six named places are unread and could contain Q(c) for some c > 1/3: Iwaniec's unpublished Rutgers notes, Fouvry-Grupp 1989 (Duke Math. J. 58), Friedlander-Iwaniec *Opera de Cribro* §25.6 (p.482), Halberstam-Richert *Sieve Methods* chapters 9-11, Diamond-Halberstam *A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method* §8.1 and chapters 10-11, and Harman *Prime-Detecting Sieves* §5.3 and §10.7. The list of sources with URLs and sha256 is `novelty-sources/SOURCES.md`, and the hashes alone are in `novelty-sources/SHA256SUMS`.\n\n### Wording the paper may use\n\nFor `paper/first-slot/main.tex`, in place of the last two sentences of \"Earlier bounds\" (line 90, \"I have not searched the literature ... no claim of priority for Corollary~\\ref{cor:P2}\"). The paper is out of scope for this lane; this is a proposal for its owner.\n\n> Pairs at distance two whose members are both products of at most two primes are older: Chen's theorem gives $p$ prime and $p+2 = P_2$, and Goldston, Graham, Pintz and Y\\i ld\\i r\\i m \\cite[Theorem~3]{GGPY} give infinitely many $n$ with $n$ and $n+2$ both $P_2$ and every prime factor of $n(n+2)$ above $n^{1/10}$. What Corollary~\\ref{cor:P2} adds is that both members are $n^{c}$-rough for some $c > 1/3$. I checked Chen's theorem and its quantitative forms, results on almost-prime tuples, and the work of Fouvry and Grupp and of Br\\\"udern and Fouvry, and found no earlier statement of this kind for any $c > 1/3$. The largest exponents I found are $0.285731$ for $P^-(p+2)$ with $p$ prime \\cite[Theorem~1, p.~109, and Remark, p.~111]{FG86}, $0.3$ for $P^-(n(n-2))$, stated without proof \\cite[pp.~339--340]{BF96}, and $3/11$ for Chen primes with both factors of $p+2$ large, from Iwaniec's unpublished notes as quoted by Green and Tao \\cite[p.~164 and Theorem~6.1, p.~165]{GT06}. I have not read Iwaniec's notes, the 1989 paper of Fouvry and Grupp, \\S25.6 of \\emph{Opera de Cribro}, chapters 9--11 of Halberstam and Richert's \\emph{Sieve Methods}, \\S8.1 and chapters 10--11 of Diamond and Halberstam's \\emph{A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method}, or \\S\\S5.3 and 10.7 of Harman's \\emph{Prime-Detecting Sieves}.\n\nThe paper would need bibliography entries for GGPY (arXiv:math/0609615) and Green-Tao (J. Théor. Nombres Bordeaux 18 (2006) 147-182); FG86 and BF96 are already cited.\n\n### Wording a filing may use\n\n> Novelty: new as far as the opened sources show (`research/sub3/NOVELTY.md`: 36 sources, 6 named places unread). No opened source states n and n+2 both free of prime factors up to n^c for any c > 1/3. The closest are Fouvry-Grupp 1986 Theorem 1 and Remark p.111 (P⁻(p+2) ≥ x^0.285731, p prime) and Brüdern-Fouvry 1996 pp.339-340 (θ < 0.3 for P⁻(n(n−2)), a sketch). For the property \"n and n+2 both have all prime factors above n^c\", return #5365 gives exponents up to 40/119 = 0.33613, above the 0.285731 that Fouvry-Grupp 1986 (Theorem 1, p.109, Remark p.111) prove for the related property with p prime (incomparable with ours, row 1) and the 0.3 that Brüdern-Fouvry 1996 (pp.339-340) sketch, conditional on the inputs named in the Result (Pascadi arXiv:2505.00653v2 Propositions 4.4 and 5.2, Maynard arXiv:2006.07088 Proposition 5.2, Lichtman Theorem 2.10). Bare (P_2, P_2) pairs at distance two are known (Chen 1973; GGPY arXiv:math/0609615 Theorem 3).\n\nNeither wording may drop \"as far as the opened sources show\" or the list of unread places, and neither may say \"best known\".\n\n## Notation\n\n- P_2: a product of at most two primes, counted with multiplicity.\n- P(c): there are infinitely many n with P⁻(n(n+2)) > n^c.\n- Q(c): the number of n ≤ X with n and n+2 both P_2 and every prime factor of n(n+2) above n^c is ≫_c X/log²X.\n- Ours: Q(c) for every fixed c < 40/119 (paper Corollary `cor:P2`, main.tex :67-69), from Theorem `thm:main` (:58-63): #{n ≤ X : min(P⁻(n), P⁻(n+2)) > (X/3)^(40/119)} ≥ (V/600) X/log²X.\n\nFor c > 1/3 and n large in terms of c, all prime factors above n^c already force P_2, so for c > 1/3 Q(c) is a count version of P(c). For c ≤ 1/3 the P_2 clause is an extra condition. A statement about primes p implies Q(c) only if it bounds P⁻(p+2) below by p^c with c > 1/3 and gives a count ≫ X/log²X: then p and p+2 are both P_2 with all factors above p^c.\n\nRelation column: \"implies\" means the source's theorem implies ours; \"implied\" means ours implies the source's theorem (or the named special case); \"incomparable\" means neither implies the other, and the column names the clause that blocks each direction.\n\n## Comparison table\n\nPages are the printed page numbers unless \"PDF p.\" is written. \"Opened\" means I read the statement in the PDF or a page image in this lane; \"opened (dept)\" means an earlier department lane opened it and recorded the reading, and I took that reading; \"quoted\" means I read only a secondary source's account.\n\n| # | Source | Theorem and page | Statement in our notation | Relation | Opened or quoted |\n| - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| 1 | Fouvry-Grupp, J. reine angew. Math. 370 (1986) 101-126 | Theorem 1, p.109; Remark, p.111 | ≥ δx/log²x primes p ≤ x with P⁻(p+2) ≥ x^ξ, some ξ > 2/7; the Remark gives ξ = 0.285731 (at ξ₁ = 0.283639). So a count form of P(0.285731) with n = p prime. It is not Q(0.285731): p + 2 may have three prime factors. | incomparable: it has n prime, which ours lacks; ours has c up to 0.33613, which it lacks. If its exponent passed 1/3 it would imply ours. | opened (page images of pp.109, 111) |\n| 2 | Fouvry-Grupp 1986 | Theorem 4 and (6.1)-(6.2), p.119 | π₁,₂(x) ≥ 0.71Cx/log²x for p ≤ x with p+2 = P_2 and every prime factor of p+2 at least x^0.201; \"if ξ = 1/4, we obtain also a positive lower bound\". So Q(1/4) with n prime. | incomparable (prime entry; exponent 1/4) | opened (page image of p.119) |\n| 3 | Brüdern-Fouvry, Compositio Math. 102 (1996) 337-355 | Théorème, p.339 | For 0 ≤ κ < 1, q ≤ x^κ and any set of primes 𝒫, #{n ≤ x : n ≡ 1 mod q, p ∣ n(n−2), p ∈ 𝒫 ⟹ p ≥ x^θ} ≫ (x/q) ∏(1 − 2/p), uniformly for θ ≤ θ(κ), θ(κ) → 0.2406. With q = 1 and 𝒫 all primes: a count form of P(0.2406). | incomparable as stated (uniform in q and 𝒫, which ours lacks); its case q = 1, 𝒫 = all primes is implied by ours | opened |\n| 4 | Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, quoting Diamond-Halberstam-Richert, J. Number Theory 28 (1988) 306-346 | p.339 | The two-dimensional sieve gives θ < 1/4.2664 = 0.2343 for the same set: a count form of P(0.2343). | implied (q = 1) | quoted (DHR unopened) |\n| 5 | Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, remarks | p.339 | Sifting {p+2} gives θ < 1/4 (Bombieri-Vinogradov) and θ < 2/7 (Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec): n − 2 = p prime, n rough. | incomparable (prime entry; exponent below 1/3) | opened |\n| 6 | Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, remark | pp.339-340 | \"On peut même porter cette valeur à θ < 0,3, en criblant l'ensemble {p₁p₂+2; p₁ ∼ x^(2/5), p₂ ∼ x^(3/5)}\", citing [F-G] Lemma 6. The claim is the pair property P(c) with a count, c < 0.3. No proof is given. | implied (the claimed conclusion; ours gives c < 0.33613) | opened |\n| 7 | Chen, Sci. Sinica 16 (1973) 157-176 | Theorem II, p.158 | p + h = P_2 for every even h, π_h(1,2) ≥ 0.67xC_h/log²x. No size for the factors of p + h. For h = 2: Q(0), n prime. | incomparable (prime entry; no roughness) | opened (dept, `research/prime-shift/LITERATURE.md` row 9); PDF downloaded and hashed here |\n| 8 | Green-Tao, J. Théor. Nombres Bordeaux 18 (2006) 147-182 | p.164 | \"Chen actually proved\" that the least factor of p+2 is at least p^(1/10): Q(1/10), n prime. | incomparable | opened (this is Green-Tao's account of Chen) |\n| 9 | Iwaniec, unpublished Rutgers notes, via Green-Tao | Green-Tao p.164, Theorem 6.1 and footnote 3, p.165 | ≥ c₁N/log²N primes p in (N/2, N] with p + 2 prime or p₁p₂, p₁, p₂ > p^(3/11). So Q(3/11) with n prime. | incomparable (prime entry; 3/11 = 0.2727) | quoted (notes unread) |\n| 10 | Richert, *Lectures on Sieve Methods*, Tata Institute 1976 | Theorem 13.2, p.169 (marginal p.162); note on Theorems 13.1 and 13.2, p.171 | For even h with 0 < ∣h∣ ≤ x^(1/3), #{p + h ≤ x : p + h = P_2} ≥ c₀S(h)x/log²x. The note says Theorem 13.1 can be stated \"in more precise form with respect to the prime factors of P_2\" by combining (13.10) and (13.11), and \"A similar remarks applies to Theorem 13.2 also\" (sic); the sieve there removes prime factors below x^(1/8) (v = 8). So Q(1/8), n prime, read from the proof. | incomparable | opened |\n| 11 | Lewulis, arXiv:1601.02873v4 | Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.3, PDF p.1 | Chen with every factor of p+2 at least p^(1/10); Chen primes in progressions with (n+2, P(x^(1/8))) = 1. | incomparable (prime entry) | opened |\n| 12 | Matomäki-Zuniga-Alterman, arXiv:2405.19063v3 | introduction, PDF p.1 (an example, not their theorem) | S({p+2}, x^(1/4−ε)) > c₀x/log²x from Bombieri-Vinogradov. | incomparable (prime entry; 1/4) | opened (dept, row 13) |\n| 13 | Goldston-Graham-Pintz-Yıldırım, arXiv:math/0609615v1 | Theorem 3, PDF p.4 | For every admissible pair L₁, L₂: infinitely many n with both P_2 and every prime factor of L₁(n)L₂(n) above n^(1/10). For (n, n+2): P(1/10) with both entries P_2, no count. | implied for the pair (n, n+2), since ours adds a count and c up to 0.33613; incomparable as a whole, since it covers every admissible pair | opened |\n| 14 | GGPY, arXiv:math/0609615v1 | Theorem 2, PDF p.4 | Two E_2 numbers among an admissible triple, prime factors above n^(1/144). | incomparable (triples, E_2, no fixed gap) | opened |\n| 15 | Maynard, Almost-prime k-tuples, arXiv:1205.4610v1 | p.1 and Theorem 2.1 | Ω(Π L_i(n)) ≤ r_k infinitely often, with r₂ = 3 attributed to Chen, r₃ = 8 to Porter. No roughness. | incomparable: Ω(n(n+2)) ≤ 3 is not implied by ours (ours gives Ω ≤ 4), and gives no roughness | opened |\n| 16 | Heath-Brown, Mathematika 44 (1997) 245-266 | via Maynard p.1 and Bin Chen p.2 | k-tuples where each L_i has at most C log k prime factors; divisor-function version Σ τ(n+h_i) ≤ ρ_k. No roughness. | incomparable | quoted (paywalled) |\n| 17 | Ho-Tsang; Porter; Diamond-Halberstam values r_k | via Maynard p.1 | values of r_k for k ≥ 3. | incomparable (k ≥ 3, Ω only) | quoted |\n| 18 | Bin Chen, arXiv:2301.05044v1 | Theorem 1.3, PDF p.3; Theorem 1.2 (Murty-Vatwani), PDF p.2 | ≫ x(log log x)^(−1)(log x)^(−k) integers with Π(n+h_i) square-free and Σ τ(n+h_i) ≤ ⌊ρ_k⌋. No roughness. | incomparable | opened |\n| 19 | Diamond-Halberstam, *A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method*, CUP Tracts 177 (2008) | contents: §8.1 \"Toward the twin prime conjecture\" pp.97-102; ch. 10-11 (weighted sieve, Tables 11.1-11.5) | unread bodies; the contents show dimension-2 sieve applications to n(n+2) and r-values. | unknown | contents only (publisher preview) |\n| 20 | Halberstam-Richert, *Sieve Methods* (1974) | chapters 9-11 (weighted sieves; Chen's theorem) | unread. Richert's Tata notes (row 10) refer to them for the weighted sieves. | unknown | unread |\n| 21 | Friedlander-Iwaniec, *Opera de Cribro* (2010) | §25.6 \"Twin Almost-Primes\", p.482 | unread; index entries \"switching trick, 233, 283, 291, 484\" and \"twin primes ... almost, 482\" (dept). | unknown; the most likely place for a statement with an explicit exponent | contents and index only (dept) |\n| 22 | Fouvry-Grupp, Duke Math. J. 58 (1989) 731-748 | main theorem, page unknown | π₁,₂ lower bound without the switch, and Theorem 2 levels for λ(q₁)ξ(q₂), as quoted in Wu 1990 and Wu 2004. | unknown (no exponent quoted for roughness) | p.731 and zbMATH review only (dept) |\n| 23 | Harman, *Prime-Detecting Sieves* (2007) | contents: §5.3 \"Reversing Roles\", §5.6, ch. 10 \"Combination with the Vector Sieve\" p.201, §10.7 \"Further Applications\" | unread bodies | unknown | contents only |\n| 24 | Evans, Correlations of almost primes, arXiv:2102.12297v3 | Theorem 1.1, PDF p.2 | asymptotic for correlations of E_2' (one factor small) at n, n+h for almost all ∣h∣ ≤ H. | incomparable (almost all h, not h = 2; no roughness) | opened |\n| 25 | Grimmelt-Teräväinen, arXiv:2508.16400v2 | Theorem 1.1, PDF p.2; (3.6) and Proposition 3.4, PDF p.14 | a weighted lower-bound indicator for Chen primes p with p+2 = P_2 and N^(1/10)-rough, used for Goldbach exceptional sets. So Q(1/10) in weighted form, n prime. | incomparable (prime entry; 1/10) | opened |\n| 26 | Matomäki-Shao, arXiv:1512.03213v1 | Theorem 1.2, PDF p.2 | every large N ≡ 3 mod 6 is p₁ + p₂ + p₃ with each p_i + 2 = P_2. | incomparable | opened |\n| 27 | Nath-Xie, arXiv:2501.16723v1 | Theorem 1.1, PDF p.3 | p − 1 a sum of two squares and p + 2 with a bounded number of prime factors. | incomparable | opened |\n| 28 | Heath-Brown-Li, \"Almost prime triples and Chen's theorem\", arXiv:1504.00533; Runbo Li, arXiv:2401.01348v1 | Heath-Brown-Li Theorem 1, p.1; Runbo Li abstract | p + 2 = P_2 and p + 6 = P_76; triples (p, P_a, P_b) with improved counts. No least-factor exponent in either. | incomparable | Heath-Brown-Li opened (dept, row 14); Runbo Li abstract only |\n| 29 | Jiamin Li, Jianya Liu, arXiv:2606.05224v2; Wu, Acta Arith. 55 (1990) and arXiv:0705.1652v1; Runbo Li, arXiv:2405.05727v4 | Li-Liu Theorem 1.2, p.3; Wu 1990 Théorème 2, p.367; Wu 2004 Theorem 4, p.4; Runbo Li PDF p.1 | constants a in π₁,₂(x) ≥ aCx/log²x, or p+2 = rq with a large factor q ≥ (p+2)^(4/7). No least-factor exponent. | incomparable | opened (dept, rows 15, 16, 19) |\n| 30 | Pintz, JTNB 21 (2009) 357-404; GGPY arXiv:0803.2636v1 | Pintz (11.2)-(11.3), pp.383-384; GGPY PDF p.2 | Chen's method gives p+2 or 2p+1 = P_2; no exponent. | incomparable | opened (dept, rows 20, 21) |\n| 31 | Lichtman, arXiv:2109.02851v2 and arXiv:2309.08522v1 | 2109 Theorem 2.10, p.8 (an input to ours); 2309 Proposition 5.2 (level 66/107) | upper bounds for twin primes; a sieve with well-factorable remainder. No lower bound for rough pairs. | incomparable (2109 Theorem 2.10 is an input) | opened |\n| 32 | Pascadi, arXiv:2505.00653v2 | Propositions 4.4 (pp.20-21), 4.5 (p.22), 5.2 (p.24) | levels of distribution for convolutions; no statement about pairs (n, n+2). | input to ours, not a competing statement | opened |\n| 33 | Yang, arXiv:2608.13299v2 | Theorems 1.1 and 1.3, PDF p.2 | upper density of P⁺(p−1); density > 0.299 of n with P⁺(n) < P⁺(n+1). | incomparable | opened |\n| 34 | Friedlander-Iwaniec, Close encounters among the primes, arXiv:1312.2926v1 | whole text searched for \"almost\", \"P_2\", \"n+2\" | no almost-prime twin statement found | incomparable | opened |\n| 35 | Department: frozen first-slot paper (F(x) < 3x^3.054); the 16/5 corollary (`research/mixed-level/NOVELTY.md`) | frozen main.tex Theorem 1 and Corollary 2; mixed-level Theorem A | Q(c) for c < 1/3.054 = 0.32744 and for c < 5/16; unpublished. | implied | department files |\n| 36 | Department: return #5321 (`research/prime-shift/SHIFTED.md`) | Result | P⁻(p+2) > p^0.29673 for ≫ x/log²x primes, conditional; unpublished. | incomparable (prime entry; 0.29673 < 1/3) | department file |\n\n`research/ladder/literature.md` (the Jacobsthal literature) records finite computations of G2(n#) and Jacobsthal-type values. They bound F at specific x and give no asymptotic statement, so they neither imply nor follow from Q(c).\n\n## The strongest known statement of the form \"n and n+2 both have all prime factors above n^c\"\n\n| Kind of statement | c | Source |\n| - | - | - |\n| proved in print, with a count | 0.285731, with n prime (so also for integers n) | Fouvry-Grupp 1986, Theorem 1, p.109, Remark p.111 (row 1) |\n| proved in print, with a count, uniform in progressions and sieving sets | 0.2406 (and 0.2343 by DHR) | Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, Théorème, p.339 (rows 3, 4) |\n| printed without proof | 0.3 | Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, pp.339-340 (row 6) |\n| both entries P_2, every factor above n^c, proved | 3/11 with n prime (Iwaniec's notes, row 9); 1/10 with n any integer (GGPY, row 13) | as named |\n| department, unpublished | 0.29673 with n prime, conditional (#5321); 0.3125 (16/5 corollary); 0.32744 (frozen paper); 0.33613 (#5365, conditional) | rows 35-36 and this return |\n\nSo, among the opened sources, the strongest proved statement for both entries at once is Fouvry-Grupp's 0.285731 (with n prime, which is more structure), and the strongest printed claim is Brüdern-Fouvry's 0.3. Both are below 1/3.\n\n## Argument\n\n**Why the comparison turns on c > 1/3.** The paper (main.tex :85) and SUB3.md §11 both note that for c > 1/3 the roughness forces each entry to be P_2. Below 1/3 a (P_2, P_2) pair with large factors is a known object: GGPY Theorem 3 gives it for c = 1/10 with any integer n, and Chen-type results give it with n prime for c = 1/10 (Chen), 1/8 (Richert), 1/4 (Fouvry-Grupp Theorem 4) and 3/11 (Iwaniec). Ours does not imply them, since they have n prime (except GGPY's, which ours implies for the pair (n, n+2)), and they do not imply ours, since c < 1/3. The outside expert's round-2 answer to Q4 says the same. Nothing opened in rows 1-34 has c ≥ 1/3 for both entries.\n\n**What would overturn the result.** Any of three kinds of statement would imply ours for some c > 1/3: (a) a count ≫ X/log²X of primes p with P⁻(p+2) > p^c, c > 1/3; (b) Chen's theorem with both factors of p+2 above p^c, c > 1/3, since then p + 2 = p₁p₂ with p₁, p₂ > p^c; (c) a sieve lower bound for n(n+2) at θ > 1/3. For (a), the best I found is 0.285731 (row 1), and the department's unpublished 0.29673 (row 36). For (b), the best is 3/11 (row 9). For (c), the best is 0.3, unproved (row 6). A statement of kind (b) would also be stronger than ours, since it has n prime. The places that could hold such a statement are the six unread rows: 9 (Iwaniec's notes, but Green and Tao quote 3/11 from them), 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.\n\n**Two directions that do not count.** Upper bounds (Lichtman, row 31; Wu, row 29) bound the number of twin primes from above and imply nothing about rough pairs. Results with Ω or τ (rows 15-18) bound the number of prime factors without bounding their size, so they are incomparable even where they give Ω(n(n+2)) ≤ 3, which is stronger in that respect than our Ω ≤ 4.\n\n**The arXiv sweep.** 17 queries against the arXiv API (listed in `novelty-sources/SOURCES.md`) returned 330 distinct papers. I screened all titles from 2020 to 2026, flagged 66 by keyword, and read the abstracts of ten (2102.12297, 2103.07500, 2106.09001, 2207.08805, 2208.13931, 2405.05727, 2508.16400, 2603.13416, 2610.10582, 2508.06463). No title or abstract read states a lower bound for P⁻(n(n+2)) or P⁻(p+2) with an explicit exponent above 0.2857. This is a search of abstracts and titles, so a paper that states such a result only in its body would be missed.\n\n## What this rests on\n\n- **Opened in this lane:** rows 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13-15, 18, 24-27, 31-34, with URLs and sha256 in `novelty-sources/SOURCES.md`. Row 1 (Fouvry-Grupp pp.109 and 111) and row 2 (p.119) were read from page images of the Göttingen scan, which has no text layer. Brüdern-Fouvry pp.339-340 were read from page images and the Numdam text layer.\n- **Taken from earlier department readings:** rows 7, 12, 22, 28-30, and the contents and index of rows 21 and 23, as recorded in `research/prime-shift/LITERATURE.md` and `research/mixed-level/NOVELTY.md`. I did not re-open them.\n- **Quoted only:** rows 4, 9, 16, 17 (from Brüdern-Fouvry, Green-Tao, Maynard and Bin Chen).\n- **Unread:** rows 19-23 and Iwaniec's notes behind row 9. Each could contain Q(c) for some c > 1/3. The result is scoped to the opened family and says nothing about them.\n- **Not checked here:** the proof of return #5365. Its inputs (Pascadi's preprint, Maynard's Proposition 5.2, Iwaniec's sieve via Lichtman Theorem 2.10) are listed in the Result. The comparison treats #5365 as stated in paper Theorem `thm:main` and Corollary `cor:P2`.\n- **No department result is affected.** Nothing found implies, contradicts or improves on the ladder, route 311, route 317, #5321 or #5365.\n\n## Filing note\n\n- **Return #5365** (F(x) < 3x^2.975 and Corollary `cor:P2`): **bears_on**. It answers the novelty flag #5365 left open: new as far as the opened sources show. The filing wording above may be attached.\n- **Route 317** (\"Mixed-level Buchstab for the first slot\", origin return 4482): **bears_on**. The route's headline exponent is the one whose novelty is audited.\n- **Route 311** (\"The origin window is the vector sieve's native window: the first-slot exponent dial\", origin 4419): **bears_on** (its 16/5 corollary is row 35, implied by ours and unprinted elsewhere).\n- **Return #5321** (P⁻(p+2) > p^0.29673): **bears_on**. Row 36 places it: incomparable with ours, and above Fouvry-Grupp's 0.285731 for primes, which the department's prime-shift lane already recorded.\n- **Refutes:** nothing. **Replicates:** nothing.\n- **Scope key:** `first-slot.F-exponent.sub3.novelty-literature@36-sources`.\n- **Cheapest decisive check:** read Brüdern-Fouvry 1996 pp.339-340 (https://www.numdam.org/item/CM_1996__102_3_337_0.pdf, two pages) and Fouvry-Grupp 1986 p.111 (the Remark) to confirm that the two closest exponents are 0.3 (sketch) and 0.285731. 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Those were the two largest-exponent rows (Brüdern-Fouvry pp.339-340, Fouvry-Grupp p.109/p.111 Remark), plus GGPY Thm 3 and Green-Tao's 3/11. I also checked the source PDFs against SOURCES.md hashes and ran an independent omission search.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":{"schema":"research-assessment-v1","next_test_md":"Read Fouvry-Grupp 1989 (Duke 58, 731-748) and Opera de Cribro §25.6 'Twin Almost-Primes' p.482. These are the two unread places most likely to state P⁻(n(n+2)) ≥ n^c with c > 1/3.","corrections_md":"None.","reopen_when_md":"Reopen if any source states n and n+2 both free of prime factors up to n^c for some c > 1/3.","supported_scopes":[{"scope_key":"sub3.rough-p2-pairs.novelty-search","scope_sha256":"1c1dd82f6643fdc46f5289f15f6ed3c1e089fe183dd311a12ccfc4720e2f9af2"}],"unsupported_extension_md":"This is not a claim that the result is new in the literature. It covers only the opened sources. The six unread places (FG 1989, Opera de Cribro §25.6, Halberstam-Richert, Diamond-Halberstam, Harman, Iwaniec's notes) are not covered."},"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Accept, rung measured (a negative literature search), spot verification.** Conflict: the author runs my own model (claude-opus-5-5). This review was done in a clean session that did not write #5408.\n\n**What I checked**\n1. *Served files.* NOVELTY.md, SOURCES.md and SHA256SUMS.txt match the return's hashes. I downloaded four of the PDFs listed in SOURCES.md (Brüdern-Fouvry 1996, Fouvry-Grupp 1986, GGPY math/0609615, Green-Tao 2006), and each matches its listed sha256.\n2. *The decisive rows, opened myself:*\n   - **Brüdern-Fouvry, Théorème, p.339** (row 3). θ(κ) → 0,2406, uniform in q ≤ x^κ and in the prime set 𝒫. The count is of n ≡ 1 mod q with p | n(n−2), p ∈ 𝒫 ⟹ p ≥ x^θ. Same page (rows 4-5): DHR gives 1/4.2664 = 0.2343; sifting {p+2} gives θ < 1/4 (Bombieri-Vinogradov) and θ < 2/7 (BFI).\n   - **Brüdern-Fouvry, p.340** (row 6). \"θ < 0,3, en criblant l'ensemble {p₁p₂+2; p₁ ∼ x^{2/5}, p₂ ∼ x^{3/5}}\", citing [F-G] Lemma 6, with no proof given. The row's wording \"a sketch without proof\" is accurate.\n   - **Fouvry-Grupp 1986, Theorem 1, p.109, and Remark, p.111** (row 1). ξ > 2/7 with a δx/log²x lower bound. The Remark gives ξ₁ = .283639… and ξ = .285731… (2/7 = .285714…). I read page images because the scan has no text layer.\n   - **GGPY Theorem 3, PDF p.4** (row 13). L₁, L₂ both P_2 infinitely often, with prime factors > n^{1/10}.\n   - **Green-Tao pp.164-165** (rows 8-9). Chen's p^{1/10}, and Iwaniec's unpublished γ = 3/11.\n   Every row agrees with what I read.\n3. *The logic.* For c > 1/3, n^c-roughness forces n and n+2 to be P_2 at the same time. So the bare (P_2, P_2) results (Chen, GGPY) do not decide the question. The open window is (1/3, 40/119 ≈ 0.33613), and every opened exponent is ≤ 0.3.\n4. *Counts.* The 36 rows split 25 opened (including dept), 4 quoted, 5 contents/review only and 2 department files, matching the summary line.\n5. *My own omission search.* I ran three web queries of my own:\n   - twin almost primes with least prime factor n^{1/3};\n   - P⁻(p+2) with exponent 0.2857;\n   - arXiv rough-twin and P⁻ lower bounds, 2024-2026.\n   They returned only items already in the table or screened (2102.12297, 1504.00533, 2207.08805, 2405.19063, 2508.06463, Wu 0709.3764) or irrelevant ones. I found nothing omitted.\n\n**Scope limits**\n- The six named unread places carry the real residual risk, and the return says so. They are Opera de Cribro §25.6, Halberstam-Richert ch. 9-11, Diamond-Halberstam §8.1 and ch. 10-11, Fouvry-Grupp 1989 (Duke 58), Harman §5.3/§10.7, and Iwaniec's notes. 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