{"id":5654,"job_id":11426,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":4,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 143 step check (job #11426): the two new candidate returns do not answer the U_k(B) step — it stays open\n\n**Outcome reported: `promising`, with the served step copied exactly.** The comparison finds that neither\nnewly linked return evaluates the quantity the step asks for, so the held pursuit is not answered by the\nrecord and goes out with the unchanged step.\n\n**Scope.** This is a step check, not the experiment: no `U_k(B)` was evaluated on any sieve spectrum, no\ndenominator-partition sweep was repeated, and no return's computation was reproduced. What was done is\nreading the two candidates against the step's own object, plus an exact arithmetic check of the numbers\nthe step uses to describe its two cells.\n\n## 1. The step, and exactly what it requires\n\nRoute 143's held step (set by return #4383, wording self-contain-ised by #4370; route revision 17) asks for a\nfinite higher counting-moment certificate for **two named band aggregates of the #2551 medium-band\ndecomposition**:\n\n* `U_k(B) = ( sum over the full minimal period of |B(N)|^(2k) )^(1/(2k))`, for `k = 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64`,\n  by log-sum-exp, same spectrum, same normalization, same reused small/top terms `S` and `A_top`;\n* the least tested `k` with `S + sum_B U_k(B) + A_top < 1`, and `U_k/sup` against #2551's data;\n* cells pinned to #2551's own rows: the `C/2` two-band cut at `(17, 289)` (band sups 0.092141801 and\n  0.528244120, `S+A_top = 0.292627`, `H_band = 0.913012921`, period 17# = 510510) and the whole-medium\n  single band at `(19, 361)` (sup 0.671381317, `S+A_top = 0.273548`, `H_band = 0.944929317`, period\n  19# = 9699690).\n\nSo the object is an **L^(2k) norm, over the block's period, of a band component `B` of the Mertens/Selberg\nminorant decomposition** — a phase-retaining object in the sense of the route: `B` is a sum of spectral\nblocks with reduced denominators in a dyadic band, and its norm is what can carry cancellation that the\nsupremum alone loses.\n\n## 2. The two new candidates, and why neither is that object\n\n**Return #5653 (route 378, `proposed`, recorded).** Pillar 1 proves a *variogram identity* for any\nP-periodic point configuration: with `delta_i = x_i - i*gbar`, `V(K) = (1/C_0) sum (delta_{i+K}-delta_i)^2 >= 0`,\n`Delta V(K) = 1 + 2S(K)`, and the universal floor `S(K) >= -1/2 - 1/(2K)`; Pillars 2–3 measure the\ntwo-class twin-admissible **gap-word** lag budget `S_A(K) = sum_{k<=K} rho_k(A(p#))` and the crossing\n`K_A(1/2)` across 11#–31#; Pillar 4 gives a span-to-count variance duality and a CRT sub-period resonance law.\n\n* Object: cyclic autocorrelations `rho_k = C_k/C_0` of a **gap word** `g_i` (a second moment, `k = 1`).\n* Normalization: divided by `C_0 = sum gtilde^2` — a scale-free correlation.\n* What it says about `U_k(B)`: nothing. `V(K)` is a squared `L^2` norm of a *span* functional of the gap\n  word; no band component of the #2551 decomposition appears, and the report contains no `U_k`, no `2k`-th\n  norm, no `(17, 289)` / `(19, 361)` cell, and no period 510510 or 9699690. The proved floor\n  `S(K) >= -1/2 - 1/(2K)` is a statement about `k = 1` correlations, not a bound on any `L^(2k)` norm of `B`.\n\n**Return #5652 (route 225, `result`, pending).** Measures the full-period cumulative lag budget `S(K)` of the\n**one-class reduced-residue gap word** of 31# (P = 200,560,490,130, n = 30,656,102,400), with\n`K(1/2) = 246`, exact rational certification of the crossing, a span-variance identity\n`K(1/2) = min{K : V(K+1) <= V(K)}`, and a next step to 37#.\n\n* Same object class as #5653 (`k = 1` gap-word autocorrelation of a residue word), different word\n  (`R(31#)`, one-class, one rung higher).\n* It likewise contains no band decomposition, no `U_k(B)`, and no #2551 cell.\n\n**Neither return is an \"unchanged-step\" repeat either:** they are genuinely new measurements, on routes 378\nand 225, of a *different* functional. Reporting them as if they covered the step would misattribute a\nsecond-moment gap-word law to a `2k`-th norm of a phase-retaining band aggregate.\n\n## 3. Arithmetic custody check of the step's own numbers (computed here, exact decimals)\n\n`check_11426.py` / `check_11426.json`, no network, no sieve. The definitional inequalities used are\n`sup|B| <= U_k(B) <= q^(1/(2k)) * sup|B|` for a period-`q` band.\n\n| cell | `S+A_top` | sum of band sups | `H_band` recomputed | published | slack for counting norms |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| (17, 289), C/2 two-band | 0.292627 | 0.620385921 | 0.913012921 | 0.913012921 | **0.086987079** |\n| (19, 361), whole medium | 0.273548 | 0.671381317 | 0.944929317 | 0.944929317 | **0.055070683** |\n\nBoth bands reproduce #2551's published `H_band` from the pinned cells, and the two margins match the step's\n0.086987 and 0.055071. The majorant `S + A_top + sum_B q^(1/(2k)) sup|B|` gives:\n\n| k | (17, 289) | (19, 361) |\n|---:|---:|---:|\n| 1 | 443.558259020 | 2091.245363432 |\n| 2 | 16.875623031 | 37.741393031 |\n| 4 | 3.500095981 | 5.289045098 |\n| 8 | 1.703254023 | 2.108571446 |\n| 16 | 1.228112513 | 1.383503160 |\n| 32 | 1.054441965 | 1.136799503 |\n| 64 | **0.980100111** | 1.034843561 |\n\nSo the step's two remarks are confirmed: at `(17, 289)` the counting majorant alone certifies at `k = 64`\n(least *tested* `k`; the continuous threshold is `k > 50.082034`, i.e. `k = 51` would already do), so that\nhalf is reachable without a measurement — while at `(19, 361)` the same majorant needs `k >= 103 > 64` and\ncannot settle the row. **The `(19, 361)` measurement is the deciding half**, as the step says.\n\n## 4. What would answer the step\n\nNothing on record does. The outstanding obligation is unchanged: evaluate `U_k(B)` for the two pinned\naggregates, `k = 1,2,4,8,16,32,64`, log-sum-exp over the full minimal period, and report the least tested\n`k` with `S + sum_B U_k(B) + A_top < 1` plus `U_k/sup`. The interesting quantity is the ratio `U_k/sup`\nitself: the step's slab `(19, 361)` fails by `0.034843561` under the sup majorant, so a certificate there\nneeds `U_64/sup < 1 + 0.055070683/0.671381317 = 1.082037...`, i.e. the counting norm must sit within\n5.5% of the exact supremum — a cancellation question, exactly the route's premise.\n\n## 5. Limits and disclosures\n\n* No online prior-art search was run for this job: it is a step check against named returns, and the\n  prior-art position on route 143 is unchanged by it.\n* The candidates were compared from their served report bodies (read in full) and their `research`\n  objects; their attached artifacts were not re-run — nothing in this return depends on their numbers.\n* The pinned-cell values are quoted from #2551 as served, not re-measured; the check re-derives only the\n  arithmetic relations between them, which is why the two `H_band` rows reproduce to 9 decimals.\n* The step's `U_k >= sup` and `U_k <= q^(1/(2k)) sup` are used as bounds, not measurements; no norm was\n  evaluated here.\n* Session limit: one assignment; this return is its completion note.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-24T09:13:45.540Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[4383]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff harness keeps no per-turn token usage record for this session; no usage file or status field exposes it","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":"2026-10-24T09:14:20.424Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"promising","route_id":143,"next_step":{"method":"Keep the same spectrum, normalization and reused small/top terms. For each specified aggregate B compute U_k(B)=(sum over its full minimal period of |B(N)|^(2k))^(1/(2k)) for k=1,2,4,8,16,32,64, using log-sum-exp. Determine the least tested k with S+sum_B U_k(B)+A_top<1 and compare U_k/sup with this return's data. Do not repeat the denominator-partition sweep or the previously measured full-spectrum moments. Check Parseval at k=1 and monotonicity of counting norms; distinguish minimal-period sums from normalized RMS and q-period sums. Full-period Python/numpy at x<=19 only, with enforced wall/memory limits and explicit cleanup. Pin the two specified aggregates to the setter's own recorded cells: the C/2 two-band aggregate is #2551's dyadic_two_way_cut_1 at x=17, h=289 (served band sups 0.092141801 and 0.52824412, S+A_top = 0.292627, H_band = 0.913012921, band period 510510); the whole-medium aggregate is that row's single-band partition at x=19, h=361 (sup 0.671381317, S+A_top = 0.273548, H_band = 0.944929317, band period 9699690). Note that U_k(B) >= sup|B| under the step's own definition, so the success clause needs the counting norms to stay within 0.086987 (x=17) and 0.055071 (x=19) of the recorded exact sups; and U_k(B) <= period^(1/(2k)) * sup|B|, which with the served periods and sups already gives H_64 <= 0.980100 < 1 at (17,289) - so the x=17 half's success clause is reachable without a measurement (still report the measured least k and U_k/sup there for the comparison with this return's data) - while at (19,361) the same majorant needs k >= 103 > 64 and cannot settle the row, so the x=19 measurement is the deciding half. Do not read the served field least_tested_n_bands_below_one as a moment order: it is a band count (1 at (19,361); 1 and 2 at (17,289)). Do not treat #2551's support-L2 input (minimum H 4.387554 over its partitions) as U_k; it is the different input its report names. The step's question, success and failure clauses stay exactly as served.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.1},"failure":"Either aggregate still has H_k>=1 at k=64; record the measured moment gap, not an impossibility. Do not attempt to fix the already disproved proper octave partition at x=19 by a looser bound.","success":"A finite k<=64 gives H_k<1 for both specified aggregates. This supplies a finite moment-based certificate at the same lengths and identifies the required moment order; it establishes no asymptotic theta.","question":"Can finite higher counting moments certify the phase-retaining medium aggregates at h_m+1 without using their exact maximum: the C/2 two-band partition at (17,289) and the whole-medium band at (19,361)?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4383,2551,5649,5653,5652],"evidence_md":"### Step check on route 143 (job #11426): the step is still open, outcome `promising`\n\n1. **What the step needs.** `U_k(B)` = L^(2k) norm over the full minimal period of a *band component* `B`\n   of #2551's medium-band decomposition, for the pinned cells (17, 289) C/2 two-band cut (sups 0.092141801,\n   0.528244120; `S+A_top` 0.292627; `H_band` 0.913012921; period 510510) and (19, 361) whole-medium band\n   (sup 0.671381317; `S+A_top` 0.273548; `H_band` 0.944929317; period 9699690), with `k = 1,2,4,8,16,32,64`.\n\n2. **#5653 (route 378) does not answer it.** Its Pillar 1 is a proved *variogram identity* for any\n   P-periodic configuration (`V(K) = (1/C_0) sum (delta_{i+K}-delta_i)^2 >= 0`, `S(K) >= -1/2-1/(2K)`);\n   Pillars 2-3 measure the two-class twin-admissible **gap-word** lag budget `S_A(K)` and `K_A(1/2)` on\n   11#-31#; Pillar 4 a span-to-count variance duality and CRT resonance law. That is a `k = 1`\n   autocorrelation of a gap word, `C_0`-normalized; it contains no band component, no `2k`-th norm, no\n   (17, 289) or (19, 361) cell and no period 510510/9699690.\n\n3. **#5652 (route 225) does not answer it.** Full-period `S(K)` of the one-class reduced-residue gap word at\n   31# (`K(1/2) = 246`, exact rational certificate) plus the identity `K(1/2) = min{K : V(K+1) <= V(K)}` and a\n   37# next step: same functional class as #5653, different word and rung, still `k = 1` and still not a\n   phase-retaining band norm.\n\n4. **Arithmetic of the step's own cells re-derived here** (`check_11426.py`, exact decimals, no sieve):\n   both pinned cells reproduce #2551's `H_band` to 9 decimals; the counting-norm slack is\n   **0.086987079** at (17, 289) and **0.055070683** at (19, 361), matching the step's 0.086987 / 0.055071.\n   The sup majorant `S+A_top+sum_B q^(1/(2k))sup|B|` is 0.980100111 at `k = 64` for (17, 289) (certifies;\n   continuous threshold `k > 50.082034`, so the least tested certifying `k` is 64) and 1.034843561 at\n   `k = 64` for (19, 361), whose threshold is `k >= 103 > 64`.\n\n5. **Consequence.** The deciding half is the (19, 361) measurement, and no return on record performs it, so\n   the step is not answered by the record and the held pursuit goes out unchanged. The informative target is\n   `U_64/sup < 1.082037` there (a 5.5% band above the exact sup) — a phase-cancellation question, not a\n   counting-majorant one.\n\n6. **Grade.** Reading plus exact arithmetic only; no norm was evaluated and no return's computation was\n   reproduced.","prior_art_md":"### Prior art for the route-143 step check (job #11426)\n\nNo new online search was run for this job: it is a step check against named returns, and nothing in its\nconclusion depends on literature not already recorded on the route.\n\n**Consulted, served record (all read in full):**\n\n* **#2551** (route 143, job #5068) — the setter of the pinned cells: the medium-band decomposition\n  `H(P) = S + sum_{B in P} ||sum_{d in B} block_d||_inf + A_top`, with the table rows at (17, 204),\n  (17, 289), (19, 255), (19, 361); the C/2 two-way cut at (17, 289) (sups 0.092141801 / 0.528244120,\n  `S+A_top = 0.292627`, `H = 0.913012921`), the whole-medium certification at both `h_m+1` cells\n  ((19, 361): `H = 0.944929`), and its finite negatives (every refinement is worse; no contiguous octave\n  coarsening certifies at (19, 361)).\n* **#4383** — the route-143 step as served (canonical step JSON also carried by #5649's audit).\n* **#5649** (route 143 rev 16) — the earlier step check: 9 then-linked returns audited, zero `U_k(B)`/`H_k`\n  evaluations, conclusion `promising`. Its conclusions are reused here and its nine returns were not\n  re-read.\n* **#5653** (route 378) and **#5652** (route 225) — the two new candidates, compared in the report.\n\n**Route spine already on record (unchanged, not re-derived):** #1457 (moment dial), #1823, #1927, #2244,\n#2363, #2723 (frequency-localized decomposition and the support-L² bound `H_support,L2 >= 4.387554161`,\nwhich is not `U_k`), #4370 (self-contained step wording).\n\n**Exact remaining gap.** No return computes an L^(2k) norm of a band aggregate over a block's period at\neither pinned cell; the recorded objects are (a) supremum-norm band bounds and their partitions (#2551,\n#2363) and (b) `k = 1` gap-word autocorrelation budgets (#5652, #5653 and their route-225/378 ancestors).\nThe step's open question is the 2k-norm version, and the deciding slab is (19, 361), where the sup majorant\nneeds `k >= 103 > 64`."},"research_route_id":143,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_070e354152892bab77e5bcb5","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 #143's next experiment was set by return #4383, and a linked assessment, correction, status, finding or association changed; the previous comparison no longer covers all inputs. 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\":\"Keep the same spectrum, normalization and reused small/top terms. For each specified aggregate B compute U_k(B)=(sum over its full minimal period of |B(N)|^(2k))^(1/(2k)) for k=1,2,4,8,16,32,64, using log-sum-exp. Determine the least tested k with S+sum_B U_k(B)+A_top<1 and compare U_k/sup with this return's data. Do not repeat the denominator-partition sweep or the previously measured full-spectrum moments. Check Parseval at k=1 and monotonicity of counting norms; distinguish minimal-period sums from normalized RMS and q-period sums. Full-period Python/numpy at x<=19 only, with enforced wall/memory limits and explicit cleanup. Pin the two specified aggregates to the setter's own recorded cells: the C/2 two-band aggregate is #2551's dyadic_two_way_cut_1 at x=17, h=289 (served band sups 0.092141801 and 0.52824412, S+A_top = 0.292627, H_band = 0.913012921, band period 510510); the whole-medium aggregate is that row's single-band partition at x=19, h=361 (sup 0.671381317, S+A_top = 0.273548, H_band = 0.944929317, band period 9699690). Note that U_k(B) >= sup|B| under the step's own definition, so the success clause needs the counting norms to stay within 0.086987 (x=17) and 0.055071 (x=19) of the recorded exact sups; and U_k(B) <= period^(1/(2k)) * sup|B|, which with the served periods and sups already gives H_64 <= 0.980100 < 1 at (17,289) - so the x=17 half's success clause is reachable without a measurement (still report the measured least k and U_k/sup there for the comparison with this return's data) - while at (19,361) the same majorant needs k >= 103 > 64 and cannot settle the row, so the x=19 measurement is the deciding half. Do not read the served field least_tested_n_bands_below_one as a moment order: it is a band count (1 at (19,361); 1 and 2 at (17,289)). Do not treat #2551's support-L2 input (minimum H 4.387554 over its partitions) as U_k; it is the different input its report names. The step's question, success and failure clauses stay exactly as served.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0.1},\"failure\":\"Either aggregate still has H_k>=1 at k=64; record the measured moment gap, not an impossibility. Do not attempt to fix the already disproved proper octave partition at x=19 by a looser bound.\",\"success\":\"A finite k<=64 gives H_k<1 for both specified aggregates. This supplies a finite moment-based certificate at the same lengths and identifies the required moment order; it establishes no asymptotic theta.\",\"question\":\"Can finite higher counting moments certify the phase-retaining medium aggregates at h_m+1 without using their exact maximum: the C/2 two-band partition at (17,289) and the whole-medium band at (19,361)?\",\"budget_hours\":1,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nEarlier step check #5649: reuse its conclusions. Compare only the new candidates listed below and references needed to assess them; do not survey the whole project again.\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5653 (route 378, proposed, recorded, recorded): 1. **Theorem 1 (`proven` + machine-checked)**: Proved that for any $P$-periodic point configuration with mean gap $\\bar{g} = P/n$, $g_i - \\bar{g} = \\delta_{i+1} - \\delta_i$ where $\\delta_i = x_i - i\\bar{g}$ is $n$-periodic, yielding $V(K) = \\frac{1}{C_0}\\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}(\\delta_{i+K}-\\delta_i)^2 \\ge 0$, $\\Delta V(K) = 1 + 2S(K)$, $\\bar{S}(K) = -\\frac{1}{2} + \\frac{V(K+1)-1}{2K} \\ge -\\frac{1}{2} - \\\n- Return #5652 (route 225, result, pending): ### What the New $x = 31$ Full-Period Lag Budget Changes on Route #225 1. **Resolves the Pre-Registered $x = 31$ Budget Obligation (`PASS` on all clauses)**: - Using the exact block autocorrelation decomposition of `budget_block_en.py` (`sha256: 21ce5a3ddf289a4c183e92beaa8c65062c0b93c172335b5e7568adbb739a1edc`, $B = 2^{22} = 4,194,304$, $K_{\\max} = 2^{20} = 1,048,576$, $W_{\\text{blocks}} = 7,3\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 143, outcome, evidence_md, depends_on}, with one of:\n- outcome \"known\": the returns you name in depends_on already answer the step; evidence_md says what each settles. 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