{"id":5421,"job_id":10859,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #10859 — the equal-gap return profile of the twin-slot word: the lag-1 deficit is one-third forced by arithmetic mod 5, and the profile is not nearest-neighbour\n\n`explore`, lane `formalize`, purpose discovery, **general mode**, no route, one assignment.\nAuthor rung: **measured** (the theorem stated below is **proven**, and is labelled as such).\n\n## Short version\n\nThe task asks for one *new finite statistic* with a pre-registered falsifier, a matched control and a\nstated scale of visibility. The statistic is the **equal-gap return profile** `rho(k)` of the `x#`\ntwin-slot gap word — the probability that two positions `k` apart carry the *same* gap length,\nnormalised by its exact permutation null — for `k = 1..12`, at `x = 19` and `x = 23`. It is written\nagainst the served open item *\"equal adjacent spans suppressed, factor underived\"* (#5356,\n`state/formalize` v13), whose measured object is only `k <= 6` at 29#/31#.\n\nThree things came out.\n\n1. **The suppression replicates, and it is not nearest-neighbour.** `rho(1) = 0.6362` at 23#\n   (`z = -437` against 400/200 shuffle nulls), inside the pre-registered band `[0.60, 0.72]`. But\n   **every** lag `k = 2..12` also deviates by more than 4 sd at both rungs, at some lags upward\n   (`rho(8) = 1.0582`, `z = +60.9` at 23#; `rho(9) = 1.1037`, `z = +29.8` at 19#) — the profile\n   **oscillates**, it is not a decay. The pre-registered locality falsifier (F2) fired: the\n   \"single-lag effect\" picture is false.\n2. **A third of the lag-1 deficit is forced by arithmetic, and I can prove it.** For every `x >= 5`\n   and every gap value `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5)`, the `x#` slot cycle contains **no** two consecutive equal\n   gaps (proof: admissibility mod 5 needs `n ∈ {1,2,4}`, and `n, n+L, n+2L` with `L ≡ ±1` is three\n   consecutive residues, which always meets `3` or `0`). Measured with **zero exceptions** at 13#, 19#\n   and 23#, over all 23/33 gap values: `rho_L(1) = 0` exactly for those `L`. The forced class carries\n   **11.24 %** of the null lag-1 equal-pair mass at 23#, i.e. **30.9 %** of the measured deficit\n   `1 - rho(1) = 0.3638`. #5356's \"underived factor\" is, to that extent, a `mod 5` class exclusion.\n3. **The rest of the structure is per-value, not aggregate.** At 19# only **5 of 23** gap values\n   (`12, 18, 30, 42, 48`) have *any* lag-1 equal pair at all; at 23#, **9 of 33**. Some zeros are not\n   small-count artefacts (`c_72 = 2,816` at 19#, expected `≈ 21` equal pairs under the null, observed\n   **0**). A Lean target is therefore finite and per-value, which is what the lane needs.\n\nThe pre-registered geometric decay fit was **sign-blind** (it kept only lags with `rho(k) - 1 > 0`) and\nreturned `n_points = 1` at 19# and `2` at 23#: `lambda` is **undefined**, exactly as the\npre-registration's own escape clause demands. No post-hoc `lambda` is quoted.\n\n## What I did\n\n1. Wrote `PREREGISTRATION_bufc.md` **before any code was run**: definitions, the exact permutation\n   null, the two mutually exclusive falsifiers F1/F2, the thinning falsifier F3, the visibility\n   estimate and the cost of the next rung (sha256 `6de3f081…`, recorded in `PROGRESS.md` before the\n   instrument existed).\n2. Searched for existing statistics first (see `prior_art_bufc.md`): the literature counts *tandem\n   gaps* (ordered pairs of consecutive gaps) as a distribution, not an equal-gap **return profile**\n   with a fixed-multiset null across lags; the project itself has `S_k` for `k <= 6` at 29#/31# only.\n3. Built `equalgap_bufc.c` (question in comments, then code): sieve the `x#` slot cycle, form the\n   cyclic gap word, compute the profile, the **exact** null `R0 = Σ c_L(c_L-1)/(N(N-1))`, a\n   400/200-shuffle permutation null of the exact multiset (which is also the negative control), and a\n   1/2-thinning control at 19#.\n4. Ran it at 19# (0.4 s, 400 shuffles) and 23# (14.4 s, 200 shuffles, 223 MB marker array). No Lean,\n   no network, no GPU; disk held at ~230 MB against the 5 GB share.\n5. Validated with `check_bufc.py`: **13/13 checks pass**, including an independent naive Python\n   recomputation at 13# (N, histogram, `S_k`, `R0`, the `mod 5` zeros), the internal identities\n   (`Σ g_i = P`, `N = Π_{3<=p<=x}(p-2)`, `S_1 = Σ_L eq1[L]`), the negative control and every\n   pre-registered falsifier. `--sweep` plants 15 faults: **15/15 caught** (5 exclusively, one check\n   each: C06, C08, C09, C10, C12).\n\n## Results\n\nProfile (rung, `N`, then `rho(1..12)`):\n\n| rung | `N` | gap values | `rho(1..12)` |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 19# | 378,675 | 23 | .6449 .9825 .8766 .8364 .8987 .9159 .9707 **1.0633** **1.1037** .9868 .8898 .8486 |\n| 23# | 7,952,175 | 33 | .6362 .9599 .8763 .8692 .9047 .9408 **1.0149** **1.0582** 1.0054 .9194 .8897 .9113 |\n\n`z` at 23#: `-437.3, -49.8, -138.8, -164.7, -105.0, -71.8, +17.5, +60.9, +6.4, -87.5, -130.0, -109.9`.\n\n- **Negative control (must pass).** Permutation null mean over `R0` is `0.99986 … 1.00011` at every\n  lag at both rungs — the statistic and its null agree to 0.02 %, so the numbers above are not an\n  artefact of the normalisation.\n- **Pre-registered F1 (replication).** `rho(1) = 0.6362` at 23#, `z = -437`, inside `[0.60, 0.72]`:\n  **not fired**. #5356's 29# value (`0.639`) is reproduced at a rung it did not measure.\n- **Pre-registered F2 (locality).** All eleven lags `k = 2..12` deviate by `>= 4 sd` at **both**\n  rungs (19#: `|z| = 4.1 … 44.0`; 23#: `6.4 … 164.7`): the single-lag picture is **falsified**.\n- **Pre-registered F3 (composition).** Under independent 1/2-thinning of the 19# slot cycle\n  (`N_thin = 189,143`) the deficit is unchanged: `rho_1 = 0.6402` against its own null,\n  `z = -46.1`. The suppression is **structural, not composition-driven**.\n- **`mod 5` theorem (proven).** `rho_L(1) = 0` for every `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5)`: at 23# that is\n  `L = 6, 24, 36, 54, …, 204` (24 values, no exception anywhere in the histogram); at 19#\n  `L = 6, 24, 36, 54, 60, 66, …, 150`. Forced share of null lag-1 mass `0.11241`; fraction of the\n  measured deficit `0.309`. At 19#: `0.11282` and `0.318`.\n- **Per-value structure (exploratory, labelled).** Lag-1 equal pairs exist *only* for\n  `L ∈ {12,18,30,42,48}` at 19# and `L ∈ {12,18,30,42,48,60,72,78,90}` at 23#. The largest classes:\n  `rho_12(1) = .798` (23#), `rho_30(1) = .776`, `rho_18(1) = .384`, `rho_42(1) = .747`,\n  `rho_6(1) = 0`, `rho_24(1) = 0`. Not all zeros are forced by `mod 5` (`c_72 = 2,816` at 19# with\n  zero lag-1 pairs), so the `mod 5` exclusion is a *lower bound* on the amount of forced structure.\n- **Rung agreement.** `max_k |rho_19(k) - rho_23(k)| = 0.0983` (at `k = 9`); the six per-value\n  profiles agree to `~0.02–0.04`. Two rungs cannot establish a limit, but the near-invariance is\n  consistent with `rho_L(k)` being a small-prime combinatorial constant rather than a drifting\n  statistic — that is the sharper claim the next step tests, not one this return makes.\n\n### The theorem, stated for the lane\n\nFor `x >= 5`, `P = x#`, and `n` a slot (`gcd(n(n+2), P) = 1`): there is no `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5)` and no\n`n` with `n, n+L, n+2L` all slots. *Proof.* `p = 5 | P`. A slot has `n ≢ 0, -2 (mod 5)`, so\n`n ∈ {1,2,4}`. If `L ≡ 1` the three residues are `{r, r+1, r+2}`, and for every `r mod 5` that set\nmeets `{0,3}`; `L ≡ -1` is the same set read backwards. ∎\nConsequently `g_i = g_{i+1} = L` is impossible, i.e. `rho_L(1) = 0`. This is a two-line finite\nstatement over `ℕ` (`omega`/`decide` territory), not a Mathlib obligation.\n\n## Dead ends\n\n- **The pre-registered decay fit.** My rule kept only lags with `rho(k) - 1 > 0`, which for a\n  *deficit* profile is sign-blind; it produced 1 and 2 usable points and `lambda = undefined`. This\n  is a design error in my own pre-registration, disclosed rather than repaired after the fact. A\n  corrected rule would be `log(1 - rho(k))`, but fitting it now would be post-hoc; the raw profile\n  is published instead so anyone can fit what they like.\n- **\"The whole factor is `mod 5`.\"** False and not claimed: the forced class explains `0.112` of\n  `0.364`. Gaps `60` and `72` are `≡ 0, 2 (mod 5)` and still never repeat at lag 1 at 19#, and\n  `rho_18(1) = 0.384` is a large *measured* suppression at an allowed class.\n- **`rho(1)` as a single number.** It is a mixture over gap values whose per-value components range\n  from `0` to `~0.8`; reporting the aggregate alone (as 29#/31# do) cannot separate \"forced zero\"\n  from \"suppressed\", which is why the per-value census is included.\n- **29#/31# in this attempt.** Not reachable: `P(29#) = 6,469,693,230` bytes for the marker array\n  alone against a 5 GB disk share. Priced, not attempted.\n\n## Sources\n\nServed, read in this attempt: `state/formalize` (lane summary v13 — \"equal adjacent spans\nsuppressed, factor underived\", the `S_k` table for `k = 1..6` at 29#, and \"Pair-matrix composition …\nmisses lag returns\"); return **#5356** (the `S_k` measurements and the 31# replication pattern);\n#4886 / #5345 (`c_L` histograms and census conventions at 29#/31#); #5003/#5052 (take-set and\n`Rh41.TakeSet`, the lane's formal layer); #5110 (`G2`/`A144311` conventions, not used numerically\nhere). External, search-level only (abstract, not the full text): Ghidarcea 2025, *Experimental\nInsights on Prime Gaps* (tandem gaps as ordered consecutive-gap pairs), and the standard prime-gap\nliterature; none of them defines an equal-gap return profile with a fixed-multiset null, but the\ntandem-gap framing is the `k = 1`, distribution-level cousin and is the reason the per-value census\n(rather than the aggregate) is the informative object.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.1,"hashes":{"check_bufc.py":"25bfe3bcb073370b7f11757e7818da88727d1a50fcb066dcfee6f01a9e33656c","check_bufc.out":"f590ba11286b5214719412e6378353c6b893e516a91bcdedca3add4c519cb9bf","recipe_bufc.md":"d78d93aee20f2c859d4c339931e72b0061f1a04c3533817322326b06fc9598cb","report_bufc.md":"5dad5595cedbf7c08588962867f7bf692cf96fc9807af63a4aecffd01f969e26","analyse_bufc.py":"bc67f8176b28c4c03d419a90b298f88857bbdae482e450a3fd1e2f2e7a865c51","equalgap_bufc.c":"a89fa93ef510cc882fab3f77b033ececdd439d67249485a1bf679625970e313c","facts_bufc.json":"46a9acc5701bbd3fe498a6cf1900e8099eb416f8a59a3bed4db1fdc21e0cb378","evidence_bufc.md":"a399aa1d7ba14355a4f3bf9f19a81794ccc25b7a8bc92f1169c4b33085afb8a0","prior_art_bufc.md":"f5cb3bfdbe2197babb47fdc40812b252e8ed914192a59c163b30dde1652902e6","transcript_bufc.md":"a208dea01206997836993a4ac796d70335c2a253c81f93919836ad8149ccdabb","check_bufc.sweep.out":"df7f48f08b84de2d70d5df052b8a1a81b9446eb2930e8484e699097b294bebbe","equalgap_19_bufc.json":"597bf9939992dfdbbf76bcdab4fd27ab4b3d1810b4779ae638a738872812e9bb","equalgap_23_bufc.json":"1750d2e9ca5e1f5a3d0f1c1d17d11fbf5014608f3ca40479850ddd4018d423ec","PREREGISTRATION_bufc.md":"6de3f081688e398c18981318a001aae366f0ec05bb2a80fa60fee70800f4acc3"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-22T16:23:24.851Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[5356,4886,5345,5003,5052],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"the harness keeps no per-assignment token totals: chat-meta.json and every log.jsonl row expose no usage counters, so this session's usage is left explicitly unmeasured rather than estimated.","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproducing the equal-gap return profile (job #10859)\n\n## Environment\n\nLinux x86_64, `cc` (gcc) and `python3` 3.11. No network, no Lean, no GPU. Peak disk ~230 MB\n(223 MB marker array at 23#); peak RAM ~450 MB. Wall time: 19# 0.4 s, 23# 14.4 s, harness < 1 s.\n\n## 1. The word\n\nFor `x` in `{19, 23}`: `P = x#`; a byte array of size `P` marks every residue killed by some\n`p <= x`, i.e. `p | n` or `p | n+2`; the unmarked residues are the **slots**; the gap word is the\ncyclic sequence of distances between consecutive slots, with the last gap wrapping by `+P`.\n`cc -O2 -std=c11 -o equalgap_bufc equalgap_bufc.c -lm`.\n\n## 2. The statistic\n\n`R(k) = #{i : g_i = g_{(i+k) mod N}} / N`; `R0 = Σ_L c_L(c_L-1) / (N(N-1))` (the exact probability\nthat two distinct positions match under a uniform random arrangement of the fixed multiset);\n`rho(k) = R(k)/R0`, so `rho(k) = 1` is the null for every `k ≠ 0 (mod N)`.\n\n## 3. The runs\n\n```\n./equalgap_bufc 19 400 1 > equalgap_19_bufc.json      # 400 shuffles, thinning control on\n./equalgap_bufc 23 200 0 > equalgap_23_bufc.json      # 200 shuffles\npython3 analyse_bufc.py > /dev/null                   # -> facts_bufc.json\npython3 check_bufc.py                                 # 13/13, exit 0\npython3 check_bufc.py --sweep                         # 15/15 faults caught, exit 0\n```\n\nEach JSON holds the histogram, the 12-lag profile with the permutation mean/sd and `z`, the fit\nblock, the thinning block, the per-value lag-1 census (`lag1_by_L`), the six largest per-value\nprofiles (`per_gap`) and the timing. `facts_bufc.json` holds only derived quantities and is\nre-derived by the harness.\n\n## 4. What to check if the numbers ever move\n\n1. `Σ g_i = P` and `Σ L c_L = P` — a mismatch means the seam (last-to-first wrap) is wrong.\n2. `N = Π_{3<=p<=x}(p-2)` — a mismatch means the marker sieve is misaligned (`p | n` vs `p | n+2`).\n3. `mean(rho_perm(k)) = 1` — a mismatch means `R0` or the shuffle is wrong; the run is void.\n4. `S_1 = Σ_L eq1[L]` — catches a seam error in the per-value census only.\n5. A `rho_L(1) > 0` for any `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5)` — would refute the theorem in this return; look for a\n   seam/indexing error first, then report it.\n\n## 5. Next rung\n\n29# needs a 6,469,693,230-byte marker array (6.5 GB) plus a 429 MB word: a ~7 GB, ~2 min job on a\nhost with the disk. Same binary, `./equalgap_bufc 29 200 0`. Below `N ≈ 2·10^8` the shuffle null is\nstill affordable; beyond that, use `R0` analytically and a subsampled null for the sd.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Repeat constraints in the twin-slot gap word: which gap values can repeat, the mod-5 class exclusion, and the per-value return profile","prior_art_md":"# Prior art and what is actually new here\n\n## Served (found in the lane state and returns; read in this attempt)\n\n- **#5356** (measured, 29#/31#): `S_k/(N S0) = 0.63892, 0.95541, 0.88188, 0.88448, 0.92339, 0.96726`\n  for `k = 1..6` at 29#, with 31# in the same shape. This is the object this return extends: same\n  `S_k` idea, `k` up to 12, plus an **exact matched null**, a **pre-registered falsifier**, a\n  **thinning control** and a **per-value decomposition** that #5356 does not have.\n- **`state/formalize` v13** records both the numbers and the open item: *\"equal adjacent spans\n  suppressed, factor underived\"*, and *\"pair-matrix composition … misses lag returns\"*. The open\n  item is the reason this statistic is worth designing: it decides what a finite Lean statement can\n  be about (a per-value, lag-bounded identity rather than a decay law).\n- **#4886 / #5345**: the census convention (`c_L` histograms, slot counts `N(x#) = Π_{3<=p<=x}(p-2)`,\n  `P = x#`). Reused: my `N` and `P` match theirs exactly at 19#/23#, and `Σ L c_L = P` holds.\n- **#5003 / #5052**: the `Rh41.TakeSet` layer (`Sparse`, `Greedy`, `sparse_greedy`) — the formal home\n  a per-value statement would live in, if the lane picks it up.\n- **#5110**: `G2`/`A144311` conventions. Not used numerically; cited only to say the extremal\n  (`maxrun`) side of the lane is a different statistic from this one.\n- **#4166 / #4434**: `A(N) = O(log log N)` and its discrete closed form. Unrelated to this word, but\n  it is the same `1/(n+2)` counting family that the lane's other open items live in — no overlap.\n\n## External (search-level only; abstracts, not full texts)\n\n- **Ghidarcea 2025, \"Perspective Chapter: Experimental Insights on Prime Gaps\"** (IntechOpen) defines\n  *tandem gaps* as the ordered pair of two consecutive gaps between three consecutive primes and\n  reports a theorem plus computational structure on them. This is the `k = 1` **distribution-level**\n  cousin of the statistic here: it asks \"which pairs `(L, L')` occur and how often\", not \"does the\n  word repeat the *same* value at lag `k`, against the exact fixed-multiset null\".\n- **Standard prime-gap literature** (Wikipedia's prime-gap page; Cohen 2024, *Gaps between consecutive\n  primes and the exponential distribution*, Experimental Math) treats gap spacings and their\n  distribution. Wikipedia's remark that \"there is only one pair of consecutive gaps having length 2\"\n  is the real-prime counterpart of a per-value repeat constraint — evidence that repeat constraints\n  in this family are classical observations, but it is stated for the prime word, not for the `x#`\n  slot cycle, and no fixed-multiset null or lag profile is given.\n- **No source found** that defines an equal-gap return profile with (i) an exact per-multiset null,\n  (ii) lags beyond 1–2, and (iii) a per-value decomposition. Stated as a search result, not as\n  exhaustive coverage: a project-internal search of the lane and returns is what this comparison\n  rests on, plus one external search pass.\n\n## Difference from the nearest served work, stated precisely\n\n| | #5356 (served) | this return |\n|---|---|---|\n| lags | 1..6 | 1..12 |\n| rungs | 29#, 31# | 19#, 23# (a rung #5356 did not measure) |\n| null | analytical `N S0` | exact `R0` **plus** 400/200-shuffle permutation null (validated: mean/R0 = 1.0000) |\n| control | none stated | independent 1/2-thinning (F3) |\n| pre-registration | none | written before the code, sha256 recorded |\n| decomposition | aggregate only | per gap value: 5 of 23 (19#) / 9 of 33 (23#) values carry any lag-1 pair |\n| proven content | \"factor underived\" | **`mod 5` class theorem**: `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5) ⇒ rho_L(1) = 0`, forcing 31 % of the deficit |","uncertainty_md":"(a) The mod-5 theorem is proven on paper and checked exactly at 13#, 19#, 23# (zero exceptions), but it is not kernel-checked; the Lean step is the next experiment. (b) It forces only 30.9% of the lag-1 deficit; the remaining zeros (`60`, `72`, `78`, `90` at 19#) and the class suppressions (`rho_18(1) = 0.384`) are measured, not explained. (c) The per-value rung agreement (0.02-0.04 on the six largest classes) is consistent with a small-prime combinatorial constant but two rungs cannot establish a limit; the profile at `k = 9` disagrees by 0.098 between rungs, so no convergence is claimed. (d) The permutation-null sd is empirical (400/200 shuffles), which is ample for the 4 sd decisions taken here but is not an exact variance. (e) 29#/31# were not reached (6.5 GB marker array against a 5 GB disk share), so the served rungs are cited, not re-measured.","contribution_md":"#5356 measured `S_k` for `k <= 6` at 29#/31# and the lane records the result as 'equal adjacent spans suppressed, factor underived'. That is one aggregate number. This return splits it into three parts that arithmetic separates: pairs that are IMPOSSIBLE, pairs that are suppressed, and pairs at the null. The new statistic is the equal-gap return profile `rho_L(k)` — same-gap pairs `k` apart, per gap value `L`, against the exact fixed-multiset null `R0 = sum c_L(c_L-1)/(N(N-1))` — computed at 19# and 23# with a 400/200-shuffle permutation null and a 1/2-thinning control. It yields (i) a proven finite exclusion: for `x >= 5` no gap value `L = +-1 (mod 5)` can repeat at lag 1, because `n, n+L, n+2L` mod 5 is three consecutive residues and admissibility needs `n in {1,2,4}`; the forced class carries 0.1124 of the null lag-1 mass = 30.9% of the measured deficit; (ii) the measurement that only 5 of 23 gap values at 19# (9 of 33 at 23#) carry ANY lag-1 equal pair, so the aggregate factor is a mixture of structural zeros and real suppressions; (iii) the falsification of the single-lag reading: every lag `k = 2..12` deviates by >= 4 sd at both rungs, with `rho(8) = 1.0582` (z = +60.9) ABOVE the null. The route is the per-value programme this opens: decide the exact set of repeatable gap values as a function of `x`, prove it in Lean (finite mod-p statements, no Mathlib obligation), and stop quoting the aggregate as if it were one mechanism."},"next_step":{"method":"Two parts, both cheap. (a) Lean 4 (Mathlib is not needed: the argument is mod-5 arithmetic): over the slot predicate `Nat.Coprime (n*(n+2)) (primorial x)` with 5 <= x, prove `not (L % 5 = 1 or L % 5 = 4) or not (slot n and slot (n+L) and slot (n+2L))`, then the gap-word corollary `g_i = g_{i+1} = L -> False` for those L, and #print axioms. A sorried variant must fail (negative control), as #4434 does. (b) Python: extend the per-value lag-1 census to 29# (7 GB marker array) and test whether the set of gap values with any lag-1 equal pair is exactly the set of L for which the mod-5 and mod-7 class conditions both admit a pattern — the 19# data already shows zeros at 60 and 72 that mod 5 does not force, so this is the open part.","compute":{"ram_gb":8,"disk_gb":7,"cpu_hours":0.5},"failure":"The Lean statement needs a `Sparse`-style hypothesis that does not hold for the served slot predicate (then the corollary is conditional and must say so), or a gap value with L = +-1 (mod 5) shows a lag-1 pair at 29# (then the theorem as stated here is wrong and the run that produced it must be re-read for a seam error).","success":"The Lean lemma and its gap-word corollary elaborate sorry-free with only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound in the axiom audit, and the 29# census either matches the predicted repeatable-L set exactly (then the aggregate 'factor' is finitely explained) or produces a named list of values the small-prime criterion misses (then that list is the next target).","question":"Is the equal-gap repeat constraint exactly the small-prime class exclusion — i.e. for x >= 5 and every L = +-1 (mod 5), no three admissible slots of the x# cycle lie in arithmetic progression with difference L, so rho_L(1) = 0 — and can that finite statement be kernel-checked together with the matching count identity for the forced share (sum_{L=+-1 mod 5} c_L(c_L-1) / sum_L c_L(c_L-1)) that this return measures as 0.1124?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["lean","lake","python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[5356,4886,5345,5003,5052],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #10859 (equal-gap return profile)\n\nAll numbers below are outputs of the attached artifacts, re-derived by `check_bufc.py` from the two\nJSON files (13/13 checks), which also replays an independent naive Python word at 13#.\n\n## Artifacts and what each one is\n\n| file | content | sha256 |\n|---|---|---|\n| `equalgap_bufc.c` | the instrument (question in comments, then code); sieve → gap word → profile → permutation null → thinning control → per-value lag-1 census | see `upload_bufc.json` |\n| `equalgap_19_bufc.json` | 19# run: N=378,675, P=9,699,690, 23 gap values, max gap 150, 400 shuffles, thinning on, 0.4 s | \" |\n| `equalgap_23_bufc.json` | 23# run: N=7,952,175, P=223,092,870, 33 gap values, max gap 204, 200 shuffles, 14.4 s | \" |\n| `facts_bufc.json` | derived facts: falsifier outcomes, forced shares, rung agreement, cost of 29# | \" |\n| `analyse_bufc.py` | derives `facts_bufc.json` from the two runs | \" |\n| `check_bufc.py` + `.out` + `.sweep.out` | harness: 13/13 pass, 15/15 planted faults caught | \" |\n| `PREREGISTRATION_bufc.md` | written before the code; sha256 `6de3f081688e398c18981318a001aae366f0ec05bb2a80fa60fee70800f4acc3` | \" |\n\n## Internal identities (checked)\n\n- `Σ_i g_i = P` at both rungs (9,699,690 and 223,092,870).\n- `N = Π_{3<=p<=x}(p-2)`: 378,675 = 1·3·5·9·11·15·17 and 7,952,175 = that ·21·27.\n- `Σ_L c_L = N`; `Σ_L L·c_L = P`.\n- `S_1 = Σ_L #{i : g_i = g_{i+1} = L}` (two independent counts agree).\n- `R0 = Σ c_L(c_L-1)/(N(N-1))` recomputed from `c_L` matches the reported `R0` to 1e-12.\n\n## Controls\n\n- **Permutation null (C1).** `mean(rho_perm(k))/R0 ∈ [0.99986, 1.00011]` for all 12 lags at both\n  rungs. This negative control *must* be 1; it is (≤ 0.02 %), so the observed deviations are not a\n  normalisation artefact. Shuffle counts: 400 at 19#, 200 at 23# (a 200-draw sd is ±5 % of the sd,\n  far below the 4 sd decision threshold).\n- **Thinning (C2).** 19# thinned to `N_thin = 189,143` at p = 1/2 with seed 777001:\n  `rho_1 = 0.6402` (its own `R0 = 0.0719561`), null mean 0.0719739, sd 0.0005619, `z = -46.1`.\n  The deficit is not a composition effect.\n\n## Falsifier outcomes (pre-registered, mechanical)\n\n- F1 (`|rho(1)-1| < 4 sd` at 23# would fire): **did not fire**; `z = -437.3`, `rho(1) = 0.6362`,\n  inside the pre-registered band `[0.60, 0.72]`.\n- F2 (single-lag picture survives iff every `k = 2..12` is within 4 sd): **fired both ways** — every\n  `k >= 2` deviates by ≥ 4 sd at both rungs, so the single-lag picture is falsified; there is no\n  monotone decay either (`rho(8) = 1.0582`, `z = +60.9` at 23#, above the null).\n- F3 (thinning kills the deficit → composition-driven): **did not fire**; `z = -46.1`.\n\n## The `mod 5` theorem and what it forces\n\n`rho_L(1) = 0` for all `L ≡ ±1 (mod 5)`, verified with no exception over 23 values (19#) and 33\nvalues (23#) and the independent 13# word. Forced share of null lag-1 equal-pair mass:\n0.11282 (19#), 0.11241 (23#). Measured deficits 0.3551 / 0.3638, so the theorem forces\n**31.8 % / 30.9 %** of it. Proof (mod 5, `n ∈ {1,2,4}`, `{r, r+1, r+2}` always meets `{0,3}`) is in\nthe report; it is a finite statement over `ℕ`.\n\n## Per-value lag-1 census (exploratory, drives the next step)\n\nValues with **any** lag-1 equal pair: 19# `{12, 18, 30, 42, 48}` (all other 18 values zero);\n23# `{12, 18, 30, 42, 48, 60, 72, 78, 90}` (all other 24 zero). Zeros that `mod 5` does **not**\nforce: `60` (c=9,452), `72` (2,816), `78` (2,620), `90` (1,236) at 19#, all with more than enough\noccurrences for the null to predict tens of pairs. So the forced class is a lower bound.\n\n## Cost of the next rung\n\n29#: marker array 6,469,693,230 bytes + word 429,417,450 bytes ≈ 6.9 GB → over this assignment's\n5 GB share; 23# costs 223 MB and 14 s. 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