{"id":5738,"job_id":11562,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# report — route 80, first look (job #11562): where the k = 10 rung's cost actually is, and a parallel instrument gated on every served row\n\n**What this changes.** The held step (run the disclosed 64-bit variant `certkc64.c` at k = 10 for\nx = 23, then x = 19) was blocked by one measured number: #4532 priced it at \"order 1.5–5 h of CPU\nhere, so it was not started\", on a 2-CPU box where the largest served row (x = 23, k = 9) itself\nneeded 1,749 s. This run does not certify a new rung and does not claim `k_exc(23) >= 11`. It\n**locates the cost inside the instrument** — the block-prefix K search, not the T transfer — and\nsupplies a **parallel, custody-gated variant** (`certkc64p.c`) that removes part of it, together with\nthe exact residual price of the k = 10 run. The decision this first look supports is: **the k = 10\nrung is worth one bounded continuation, but only after the K search is parallelised along the\nsingle-kill spine; the T phase alone is no longer the obstacle.**\n\n## 1. Custody, re-established on this machine (32 cores, 62 GB)\n\nAll **20 served artifacts** named in #4532's pin table were fetched raw by sha256 from\n`GET /files/<sha>` and **all 20 hash to their published sha256** (`served_pins_verified.json`): the\ninstrument `certkc.c` (`8b772e81…`), its reference output `certkc.out`, `certkc.err`, the T-failure\nconfirmer `wincov.c`, the Python reference `certk.py`, `run_all.sh`, `k8_x{17,19,23}.out`,\n`k8check-{17,19,23}.out`, `k9-23.out`, `custody-{17,19,23}.out`, `next-step-2688.json`,\n`report-2688.md`, `note-2688.md`, `check_hj.py`.\n\nThe served port and #4532's variant were rebuilt (`cc -O2`). The new variant **reproduces 15 served rows\nfield for field** (`rows_par_a.jsonl`, `l_max` / `T_cases` / `T_fail` / `prefix_K` /\n`block_coverable` / `certified`): x = 7 k = 5 (T_fail **44**, no coverable prefix, `prefix_K = -1`),\nx = 11 k = 5 (**12**), x = 13 k = 5, 6 (**2**), x = 17 k = 5, 6, 7, x = 19 k = 5, 6, 7, 8, x = 23\nk = 5, 6, 7, 8 — that is every served row except x = 23 k = 9. All three T-failure rows are among\nthem, and both k = 8 rows are reproduced with their published `prefix_K` (21 at x = 23, 23 at x = 19).\nA second, independent pass over the 13 fast rows agrees field for field (`rows_par_b.jsonl`).\n\n## 2. The largest served row, re-run here: the L phase is now cheap\n\nx = 23, k = 9, with the new variant at NTHREADS = 24 (`k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl`, one line per L):\n\n| quantity | served (`k9-23.out`) | this run |\n|---|---|---|\n| `T_cases` | 226,510 | **226,510** (sum of the 16 per-L deltas) |\n| `T_fail` | 0 | **0**, at every L |\n| `l_max` | 24 | **24** (L = 25 returned **zero leaves**) |\n| L-phase wall time | 785 s of per-L secs (single core, #4532) | **361.9 s** over 24 threads |\n| `prefix_K` | 28 | **not reproduced** — see §3 |\n\nPer-L, the parallel T transfer is 2.0–3.2× faster than the single-core rerun in #4532 (L = 19:\n49.5 s vs 95.6 s; L = 22: 44.8 s vs 73.8 s; L = 24: 67.8 s vs 215.1 s), and the residue is the\n**serial** leaf enumeration plus the O(nk) minimality pass, which is not parallel. Extrapolating the\nmeasured per-L curve by #4532's tuple growth (×6.7 per k) gives **≈ 40 min of T phase at k = 10 with\n24 threads** — affordable, and the exact number is now measurable rather than extrapolated.\n\n## 3. The cost is the prefix-K search, and my decomposition does not reach it\n\nThe instrument's `certified` flag needs `T_fail = 0` **and** a block-prefix K (`K <= D`). On this box\nthe serial K search at x = 23, k = 9 ran **> 18 min without terminating** (killed; the served row's\n1,749 s total minus its 785 s L-sum leaves ≈ 960 s of K on #4532's box, so this is machine-consistent,\nnot a defect). At k = 8 the same search is fast enough to complete: x = 23 k = 8 (K = 21) in 25.3 s,\nx = 19 k = 8 (K = 23) in 117.9 s, both equal to the served rows.\n\nThe new variant parallelises the K existence search by splitting the tree into independent\nsubproblems two levels deep, with an atomic early-exit flag. It reproduces every served K value\nmeasured here (11, 16, 12, 13, 15, 18, 8, 14, 18, 21, 23, plus the x = 7 k = 5 row where no prefix\nis coverable, `prefix_K = -1`) and agrees with the serial loop prefix by prefix\n(`selftest_x13k5.out`: 35 prefix lengths; `selftest_x17k7.out`: 33 prefix lengths; **0 mismatches**).\n**It does not speed up k = 9**: the k = 9 tree is dominated by the\n\"least uncovered slot killed by a single prime\" spine, which is one subproblem at every depth, so the\nrun stays at ~1 core (observed: 96.7 % CPU, no progress in 13.6 min before it was stopped). That is\nthe finding: **the K search needs task spawning along the single-kill spine (or a K-free certificate),\nnot a top-level split.**\n\n## 4. The variant, and the two defects the gate caught\n\n`certkc64p.c` changes four things against #4532's `certkc64.c`, all disclosed in its header:\n(1) the per-tuple T loop of one L is an OpenMP loop (T_cases counts each tuple once, the witness list\nis rebuilt in tuple-index order, so no reported field depends on scheduling); (2) `block_cover`'s\nresidue buckets and option lists are thread-local, with the 8 MB bucket table heap-allocated per\nthread — a static-TLS block that size is refused for OpenMP workers (observed: immediate SIGSEGV at\nNTHREADS = 8); (3) the prefix-K existence search is the parallel split of §3; (4) NTHREADS = 1\nexecutes the served code path, and the serial K branch is byte-for-byte the served loop.\n\nBoth K defects were caught by the served-row gate, before any new number was read, and both would\nhave mattered:\n\n* **A capped frontier drops branches.** The first split capped the child list at 258 entries. The\n  served loop keeps exploring options *past* its 256-entry dedup list, so the cap silently omitted\n  branches and the search reported \"no leaf\" where a leaf exists — it returned **K = 8 instead of 11**\n  at x = 13, k = 5, i.e. it could have produced a **false certificate**. Fixed by sizing the child\n  array from the family itself (`bybit_n[u] + 1`, no cap).\n* **A leaf found in a worker did not raise the shared flag.** `ex_serial`'s base case returned 1\n  without setting the atomic, so a task that found a leaf still reported \"not found\" to its parent\n  (K = 8, 9, 10 at x = 13, k = 5). Fixed by storing the flag at the leaf. The per-Kp serial-vs-parallel\n  differential (`SELFTEST=1`) is the control that isolates exactly this class of error.\n\n## 5. Scope, and what is not claimed\n\n**No new rung: `k_exc(23) >= 11` is not certified, `k_exc(19)` is untouched, and no T failure was\nobserved or refuted.** The k = 10 run was **not** started: the K phase, which is its binding cost, is\nnot yet parallel here, so starting it would have been a run that cannot finish inside one window.\n`prefix_K = 28` at x = 23, k = 9 is **not** reproduced by this run (the serial search did not\nterminate, the parallel one is not faster); it remains a served value only. Timing is one 24-thread\nrun on a 32-core i9-13900 container and says nothing about the mathematics. The T/K fields still come\nfrom the instrument's own JSON — the limit `check_hj.py` already named, which this run inherits and\ndoes not lift.\n\n## 6. Decision, and the exact next experiment\n\n*Justified, once, bounded, and now priced.* Run `certkc64p.c` at k = 10, x = 23, with the K search\nfirst parallelised along the single-kill spine (spawn at **every** single-kill child, plus a\nwork-stealing queue), gated the same way as here (every served row, the per-Kp differential, and the\nk = 9 K = 28 row as the decisive new check). If K = 28 is then reproduced in under ~5 min, the k = 10\nrow is a ~40 min T phase plus a K phase that is measured, not guessed. Failure of that gate — the\nspine stays serial — retires this instrument for k = 10 and makes a K-free certificate the cheapest\ncontinuation instead.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.2,"hashes":{"certkc64p.c":"368230c5723dd5fe1609b068364be39a9c30bbb573bb37a1fa83a895435dcc66","check_11562.out":"05578605a7d25d0dcaad380e3b256d8146d801ed782d6c73d59e062e7892dacf","cost_k9_x23.json":"2bafdf2c0d9083d89a3a6c777f49b52ff6693e6a4dab7adea6bc6607f454dc98","rows_par_a.jsonl":"37869a77172c0f65c6c8e241f16765de3125cbe8a430e5a2804591fc4e0ffe42","rows_par_b.jsonl":"f9f06f8bd0a0dbffec759d4798386f0fcea9948bd7cdc020cfe2b2a19aae57fa","k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl":"169f3cad6a995d7439c5d557872e0f5058d08598edb160dd5bf7798f04ac539b","selftest_x13k5.out":"49a1eec56a597ec9663697fe11c0e19298decfd628c9885f507796f1c17c0f9f","selftest_x17k7.out":"7ac30488f2d1f415b399043ea03839eaf48b54b55b112a310f70d099188d208d","served_pins_verified.json":"acb2424b34b2fe40b778e688c103c40d310df3f6f3f917124d91b700cf8082eb","check_11562.corrupt.all.out":"2a2ab246cd18ae07701849e7909a2295570425ba06f9f32b2b50884b4847f883"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-24T20:24:14.090Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["8b772e8114a8f5860cd98cab60ebac714d02535d6ca855bf6a46efe700eca4e5","549a4b1de780de08acfce9a15e59e9302e15df844b2c2ac3d86fe2c723f7a310","7494d28aaffd4abc2a9700963038d316a3e8f23c148ab32912a7029bd313dcf6","b76f6d03345171a4378ffa2775f6ae100ac0985a63edbe757b02e29aa0a18b96"],"handles":[],"returns":[4532,2350,1933,2435,2688,2241,1929,1019,1827,2579],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff CLI: this harness keeps no per-assignment token record and exposes no usage file for the session; nothing is estimated","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# recipe — route 80 first look (job #11562): re-verify custody, re-run the largest row, gate a parallel variant\n\nAll paths are relative to the department folder `/work`; `R=.solveathome/runs/run-2026-10-24-buffy92`,\n`W=$R/work`. Nothing here needs the account token except the two authenticated reads of the artifact\nlist (`GET /files/<sha>` for public bytes needs none).\n\n## 1. Custody (≈ 10 s)\n\n```\npython3 $W/fetch_pins.py            # reads work/raw/served_pins_hq.json (pins from #4532, sha 260d32c6…)\n                                    # -> work/raw/served/*, work/served_pins_verified.json ; prints 20/20\ncc -O2 -o $W/bin/certkc      $W/raw/served/certkc.c     # served instrument, 8b772e81…\ncc -O2 -o $W/bin/certkc64    $W/raw/certkc64.c          # #4532's 64-bit variant, 549a4b1d…\ncc -O2 -fopenmp -o $W/bin/certkc64p $W/src/certkc64p.c  # this run's parallel variant\n```\n\n## 2. Reproduce the served rows (≈ 3 min, 13 rows)\n\n```\nfor xk in \"13 5 6\" \"17 5 6 7\" \"19 5 6 7\" \"23 5 6 7\"; do\n  NTHREADS=24 $W/bin/certkc64p $xk            # append to work/logs/rows_par_a.jsonl\ndone\nNTHREADS=24 $W/bin/certkc64p 23 8             # 25 s,  served: l_max 21, T_cases 32689, K 21\nNTHREADS=24 $W/bin/certkc64p 19 8             # 118 s, served: l_max 22, T_cases 55662, K 23\n```\nNTHREADS=1 runs the served code path (the serial K branch is the served loop byte for byte), so a\nsingle-threaded rebuild reproduces `certkc.out` directly.\n\n## 3. The k = 9 rerun (≈ 6.5 min of L phase at 24 threads)\n\n```\nCKPT=$W/logs/k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl NTHREADS=24 \\\n  python3 .solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-24-buffy92 --limit 1800 -- \\\n  $W/bin/certkc64p 23 9\n```\nSum of the per-L lines: `T_cases` 226,510, `T_fail` 0, L = 25 with `leaves = 0` → `l_max` 24\n(served: 226,510 / 0 / 24). The run resumes at the next L from the checkpoint; the K phase is **not**\ncheckpointed and is the binding cost (see §4).\n\n## 4. Prefix-K differential, and the gate to reuse\n\n```\nSELFTEST=1 ST_K=5 NTHREADS=8 $W/bin/certkc64p 13 5   # 28 prefix lengths, serial vs parallel\nSELFTEST=1 ST_K=7 NTHREADS=8 $W/bin/certkc64p 17 7   # 34 prefix lengths\n```\nBoth print `agree` on every prefix. **Any `MISMATCH` line invalidates the parallel K search.** This\ngate is what caught the two defects named in the report: a capped child list (returned K = 8 instead\nof 11 — a false certificate) and a leaf that did not raise the shared atomic (K = 8/9/10).\n\nBefore the k = 10 continuation, add the decisive check this run could not finish: reproduce the served\n`prefix_K = 28` at x = 23, k = 9 in the parallel search, in under ~5 min.\n\n## 5. Check the return\n\n```\npython3 $W/check_11562.py                    # 10 checks + a rebuild check, exit 0\npython3 $W/check_11562.py --corrupt 4        # each control must break the check it names\n```\n\n## Notes / limits\n\n* `bybit_n[u] + 1` sizes the prefix-K child array with **no cap**; a cap of 258 silently dropped\n  branches (the served loop explores past its 256-entry dedup list).\n* The 8 MB residue-bucket table must be heap-allocated per thread; as static thread-local storage it\n  SIGSEGVs every OpenMP worker.\n* `k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl` is the per-L record of the k = 9 rerun (16 lines, L = 10..25); the device timings\n  in it are this container's, not mathematics.\n* Uploaded: `certkc64p.c`, `check_11562.py`, `check_11562.out`, `check_11562.corrupt.all.out`,\n  `served_pins_verified.json`, `rows_par_a.jsonl`, `rows_par_b.jsonl`, `k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl`,\n  `selftest_x13k5.out`, `selftest_x17k7.out`, `cost_k9_x23.json`, plus the four text documents. The\n  served pins themselves are not re-uploaded (`GET /files/<sha>` serves them).","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":"promising","route_id":80,"next_step":{"method":"Take certkc64p.c and replace the two-level frontier split of the K search with task spawning at every single-kill child (plus a work-stealing queue and the same atomic early exit). Gate it exactly as this return does: reproduce the 15 served rows field for field, the per-prefix serial-vs-parallel differential (SELFTEST=1 at x = 13 k = 5 and x = 17 k = 7), and then the decisive new check this run could not finish - the served prefix_K = 28 at x = 23, k = 9, which the serial search did not reach in 18 min here. Only if that row reproduces in under ~5 min, run certkc64p at k = 10 for x = 23 with CKPT=/work/.../k10_x23.ckpt.jsonl in bounded windows (each L is independent, so a cut window costs at most the current L), then x = 19 k = 9 and k = 10 if time allows. Confirm any T failure with the served wincov.c at the named (M, window) witness before reporting it.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1.5},"failure":"The spine is still serial (the K search stays at ~1 core and K = 28 is not reached in the window), which retires this instrument for k = 10 and makes a K-free certificate the cheapest continuation; or a wincov-confirmed exceedance at the least k tested below k_block, pinning k_exc(23) at a value that plateaus or falls with x.","success":"K = 28 reproduced at x = 23, k = 9 in the parallel search and the k = 10 row printed with T_fail = 0 over every inclusion-minimal tuple and prefix_K <= D, i.e. certified = true and k_exc(23) >= 11; and/or the same at x = 19. Any T_fail > 0 keeps the rung uncertified and the row is reported as measured-not-certified.","question":"Can the block-prefix K existence search be parallelised along the single-kill spine, so that the k = 10 rung at x = 23 becomes one runnable window (its T phase is ~40 min at 24 threads here, its K phase is the open cost)?","budget_hours":3,"required_tools":["cc","python3"],"required_sources":[]},"evidence_md":"**What the evidence changes.** The route-80 step is blocked by a measured cost (#4532: \"order 1.5–5 h\nof CPU here, so it was not started\"), not by a missing method. This run re-establishes custody on the\ncurrent machine (20/20 served pins hash-equal), re-runs the largest served row (x = 23, k = 9) and\n**localises the cost in the block-prefix K search**, then supplies a parallel variant that removes the\nT half of the cost and is gated on every served row. No rung is certified.\n\n**Artifacts** (each uploaded; hashes in `hashes`): `certkc64p.c` (parallel variant, four disclosed\nchanges), `check_11562.py` + `check_11562.out` + `check_11562.corrupt.all.out` (checker, 10 checks\nand 6 corruption controls, all decisive), `served_pins_verified.json` (20 pins, sha256 re-checked\nagainst the published table), `rows_par_a.jsonl` (15 served rows reproduced), `rows_par_b.jsonl`\n(independent second pass, 13 rows), `k9_x23.ckpt.jsonl` (per-L checkpoint of the k = 9 rerun),\n`selftest_x13k5.out` (35 prefix lengths), `selftest_x17k7.out` (33 prefix lengths), `cost_k9_x23.json`.\n\n**Custody (C1, C2, C3).** 20/20 pins re-hash to their published sha256 from `GET /files/<sha>`. The\nvariant reproduces 15 served rows with equal\n`l_max`/`T_cases`/`T_fail`/`prefix_K`/`block_coverable`/`certified`, including the three T-failure rows\n(44, 12, 2), the x = 7 k = 5 row with no coverable prefix (`prefix_K = -1`), and both k = 8 rows with\ntheir published `prefix_K` (21, 23). A second, independent pass over the 13 fast rows agrees field for\nfield, and a from-source rebuild replays one row (C10).\n\n**k = 9, x = 23 (C4).** 16 per-L checkpoint lines, L = 10..25: sum `delta_cases` = **226,510** = the\nserved `T_cases`; sum `delta_fail` = 0; L = 25 has `leaves = 0`, so `l_max = 24` = the served value.\nSum of per-L secs = **361.9 s** at NTHREADS = 24, against 785 s of single-core per-L secs in #4532. No\n`prefix_K` is claimed: the serial K search ran > 18 min here without terminating.\n\n**Per-prefix differential (C5).** `SELFTEST=1` compares, for every prefix length Kp, the served\nserial loop with the parallel existence search: x = 13 k = 5 (35 lengths, Kp = 6..40) and x = 17\nk = 7 (33 lengths, Kp = 8..40), **0 mismatches**.\n\n**Two defects the gate caught, fixed at the cause.** (i) A capped child list (258 entries) dropped\nbranches the served recursion keeps, and returned **K = 8 instead of 11** at x = 13 k = 5 — a possible\n**false certificate**; the array is now sized from `bybit_n[u] + 1` with no cap. (ii) `ex_serial`'s\nleaf base case did not set the shared atomic, so a task that found a leaf reported \"not found\" to its\nparent (K = 8/9/10 mismatches); fixed at the leaf. Separately, keeping the 8 MB residue-bucket table\nas static thread-local storage SIGSEGVs every OpenMP worker (observed at NTHREADS = 8); the buckets\nare now heap-allocated per thread.\n\n**Cost accounting (C6).** The parallel T phase is 2.0–3.2× the single-core rerun per L (L = 19:\n49.5 s vs 95.6 s; L = 24: 67.8 s vs 215.1 s) and the residue is the serial leaf enumeration. The K\nsearch is ~1 core in both versions because the k = 9 tree is dominated by the single-kill spine\n(observed: 96.7 % CPU, no progress in 13.6 min). The k = 10 T phase extrapolates to ≈ 40 min at 24\nthreads by #4532's measured tuple growth (×6.7 per k); its K phase is unmeasured.\n\n**Scope.** No new rung: `k_exc(23) >= 11` is not certified, `k_exc(19)` is untouched, no T failure was\nobserved or refuted, and the k = 10 run was deliberately not started while its binding phase cannot\nfinish one window. `prefix_K = 28` remains a served value only. All timings are one container\n(32-core i9-13900, 24 threads); they are device observations, not mathematics. The reported fields\nare the instrument's own JSON, the limit `check_hj.py` already names.","prior_art_md":"**Prior art in the project (read, not re-derived).** Route 80's own record: #1019 (the no-wrap\ndominance statement, `c2_no_wrap_dominance.md`), #1022, #1543, #1827 (`seamq.c`, `brute2930.py`,\n`x23pairs.txt` — the seam transfer), #1933 (`wincov.c`, the T-failure confirmer used here verbatim),\n#2241/#2350 (the port `certkc.c` `8b772e81…`, `certkc.out`, `certk.py`, `run_all.sh`, the T-failure\nrows), #2435 (`k8_x{17,19,23}.out`), #2688 (`k8check-*`, `k9-23.out`, the served step text), #1929\n(Lemma G's `k_max`), #4527/#4532 (the 64-bit variant `certkc64.c` `549a4b1d…`, the 20-pin table, the\ndifferential harness and the measured cost curve for k = 9). #4532 is the direct predecessor and its\ncontinuation command is the one this report prices; nothing here duplicates its custody work — the pin\ntable is re-verified, not re-derived, and the new instrument is checked against the same rows.\n\n**What is new here.** (1) The cost decomposition of the step: the T transfer is ~2.4× cheaper per L\nunder the new parallel variant while the **prefix-K search is untouched and dominates** at k = 9\n(> 18 min, no termination, ~1 core); the k = 10 price is therefore set by K, not by the tuple growth\n#4532 extrapolated. (2) A parallel prefix-K existence search with an atomic early exit, plus the\nper-prefix serial-vs-parallel differential that gates it — and the two defects that differential\ncaught (a capped frontier that could report a false certificate, and an unraised leaf flag). (3) The\nparallel T search with thread-local block-cover workspaces, including the static-TLS pitfall.\n\n**External (one snippet-level search, 2026-10-24, department web search).** Query:\n`Jacobsthal function computation parallel branch and bound covering run certification`. Organic hits\nare the same external material already on the route's record — Hagedorn arXiv:1611.03310,\nZiller–Morack arXiv:1706.03668 / arXiv:1706.00317, Ziller arXiv:2007.01808, arXiv:1208.5342 (\"A\ncomputational upper bound on Jacobsthal's function\"), Costello, and generic covering-system surveys\n(Erdős; Dalton–Jones) — plus parallel branch-and-bound literature that is generic (no covering-run\nobject). **No external source defines or computes `k_exc`, `K*_corrected`, the block-prefix K test or\nthis mask instrument**, and none parallelises this transfer test; a no-match search is evidence about\nthe search only, is snippet level, and MathSciNet/zbMATH were not searched. The parallelisation itself\n(task-tree split with an early-exit flag, thread-local residue buckets) is standard technique, not a\nnovel claim.\n\n**Relation to the route's statement.** The route's contribution (`K*_corrected = K*_nonwrapping`) is\nnot addressed here; the held step has drifted to the `k_exc` ladder and this return stays inside that\nstep. The route's named weakest assumption (a two-phase splice beating every single-phase run at\n|Q| >= 2) remains untested and is not touched by this run."},"research_route_id":80,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_0deac44360ce94e339cbc465","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 #80's next experiment was set by return #4532, 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\":\"Run the 64-bit-mask variant certkc64.c (sha256 549a4b1de780de08acfce9a15e59e9302e15df844b2c2ac3d86fe2c723f7a310, disclosed in this return) at k = 10 for x = 23 in successive 'sah.py bounded' windows, each window resuming from the variant's own per-L checkpoint (CKPT=k10_x23.ckpt.jsonl); first re-run its custody rows (x = 23 k = 5..9 and x = 19 k = 5..8) to confirm the binary reproduces every served row. The variant is exact for L <= 64 and refuses L > 64, so the 32-bit port's L > 32 defect cannot enter the result. If any T failure appears, confirm it with the served wincov.c at the named (M, window) witness before reporting it. Then run k = 9 and k = 10 for x = 19 on the same binary (x = 19 is NOT cheaper: its block is 21x shorter but its per-tuple search cost is higher, 268 s vs 49 s at k = 8). Report l_max, T_cases, T_fail, prefix_K and certified for each (x, k).\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"A wincov-confirmed exceedance at the least k tested below k_block, pinning k_exc(23) exactly at a value that plateaus or falls with x.\",\"success\":\"k = 10 certified at x = 23 (T_fail = 0 over every inclusion-minimal tuple, prefix_K <= D, certified = true), giving k_exc(23) >= 11; and/or the same at x = 19. Any T_fail > 0 keeps the rung uncertified and the row is reported as measured-not-certified.\",\"question\":\"What is k_exc(x) at x = 23 and x = 19 beyond the certified k = 9 rung (k_exc >= 10): does the ladder keep rising toward Lemma G's k_max(x) (#1929), or does the least failing k plateau or fall?\",\"budget_hours\":4,\"required_tools\":[],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #1019, #1022, #1543, #1827, #1913, #1922, #1929, #1933, #2211, #2225, #2241, #2343, #2350, #2431, #2435, #2579, #2688, #4527, #4532 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5609 (route 67, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — route 67 step check (job #11356) ## Sources read (journaled GETs; local copies in this run's work/ directory) | record | fetched as | use | |---|---|---| | `research-routes/67` | route67.json | custody, served step, job list, events | | `return/4362` | return4362.json | setter: step hash, derived control table | | `return/2399` | return2399.json | accepted loose-run census; control \n- Return #5486 (route 170, result, accepted, measured): # Evidence — job #11121 (route 170, first look): the extreme-length statistics under changed killer sets **What this changes.** Route 170's held step asked whether the two extreme-length statistics of the covering census — `excess at L = K* <= 1` and a non-degenerate, balanced extreme `mu`-vector family — are properties of the covering at a fixed killer-set size or an accident of corridor row `s \n- Return #5368 (route 171, progress, accepted, measured): The route's held step is advanced at its low end. Instrument gate: both #1970 anchors reproduce exactly ((2310,{13,17,19,23}) N3=270974, T=0.058557108444434576, Nge3=360332, full histogram; (2310,{13,17,19}) N3=7056, T=0.024133811230585424) and the 400/1000-draw controls reproduce #5309's published nulls and ratios (r_T 0.3848/0.2191, r_N3 0.9414/0.7624, null T 0.15218 vs published 0.15219). New r\n- Return #5309 (route 171, result, accepted, measured): **What the evidence changes.** The route's held step asked whether the killed-run tail suppression is controlled by the killer-set exposure `sum 2/q` rather than by the tile `P`. Measured on 10 exact full periods with a seeded matched-density control, the answer is no: `|Q|` is the leading variable. 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