{"id":5766,"job_id":9434,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #9434 (route 231, pursue): the `P = 19#` corridor block, with the LP integrality gap measured first\n\nGeneral mode, one assignment, one core. Work continues return **#4617** (accepted) and the published\nengine of **#2839**. Every number below is exact integer or exact rational arithmetic; no sampling.\n\n## Result\n\nAt `P = 19# = 9,699,690` the base slots are `T_P = {r : r mod p ∉ {0, −2} for every p | P}`, and\n\n    |T_P| = prod_{p | P, p > 2} (p − 2) = 1·3·5·9·11·15·17 = 378,675\n\n(the brief's 334,125 omits the `p = 19` factor — see the two premise corrections below).\n\n| corridor `Q` | `|T_P|` | `K*` | `R_cap` | `R_Hunter_default` | `R_Hunter_min` | `R_LP` | `R_SA2` | certified / capacity-passing above `K*` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `{23,29,31,37}` (rung `s = 19/20`) | 378,675 | **13** | **17** | 17 | 14 | **13** | **13** | **1,580 / 1,580**, 0 undecided |\n| `{23,29,31,37,41}` (rung `s = 21`) | 378,675 | **16** | **23** | 22 | 18 | **16** | **16** | **18,750 / 18,750**, 0 undecided |\n\nTwo statements follow, and they are the assignment's question answered in order.\n\n**1. The LP integrality gap above `K*` is zero at both rungs.** Every capacity-passing window of every\nlength `L > K*` carries an explicit rational weight vector `w ≥ 0` with\n`sum_i w_i > sum_q max_{m ∈ M_q} sum_{i ∈ m} w_i`, checked with `Fraction`. By the route's LP duality\n(Theorem 1 of #2839) that is `lambda_LP(W) < 1`, i.e. `LP_slot` infeasible, hence not coverable. So\n`K* = R_LP`, and since `R_SA2 ≤ R_LP` and a coverable window is SA2-feasible, `R_SA2 = K*` is forced\nrather than observed. **The second-order (Sherali–Adams-2 / Lasserre-1) lift is never needed at this\nblock**: the first-order LP already closes the corridor, so the requested SOS bound has nothing to\nrepair here. Measured before anything else, as the step asked.\n\n**2. The capacity bound loosens with the block, the LP bound does not.** `R_cap − R_LP` is `4` at the\n4-prime rung and `7` at the 5-prime rung, against `3` and `6` at `P = 17#` for the same `Q` sets. The\n`Hunter` bounds also stay above `K*` (`R_Hunter_min = 14 > 13`, `18 > 16`), so of the four bounds only\nthe LP is tight.\n\n**3. The ladder continues.** `K*` at `P = 19#` is 13 (4 primes) and 16 (5 primes). Note that #4617's\nrow \"`s = 19/20`, `Q = {23,29,31,37}`, `K* = 12`\" was computed at `P = 17#`; at the block that rung\nactually belongs to, the value is 13, not 12 — the rung label moved with the block, not the object.\n\n## The weight family (the assignment's first half)\n\n**No single closed-form rule tested replaces the per-window certificates. One structural rule covers\n92.3 % of them, and the residual 7.7 % is now an exact finite set.**\n\nAll 24,814 recorded certificates were re-examined with exact rational arithmetic: the 4,484 of #4617's\nthree `17#` corridors plus the 20,330 new ones at `19#`. Rules are evaluated from the window's own\nincidence data (no search); for each prime `q` and phase `b`, `C_q(b)` is the killing class\n`{i : slot_i ≡ b or b−2 (mod q)}` and `C_q(i)` the class containing slot `i`.\n\n| closed-form rule | 19#, 4 primes (1,580) | 19#, 5 primes (18,750) | 17# (40 / 238 / 4,206) | total |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `w ≡ 1` (uniform) | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 / 0 | **0** |\n| `multi_phase_support` (`w = 1_{C_q(b), |C| ≥ 2}`) | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 / 0 | **0** |\n| `thinnest_pair` (single thinnest class) | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 / 0 | **0** |\n| `class_normalised`, `w_i = 1/|C_{q_0}(i)|` | 788 | 3,750 | 18 / 91 / 743 | 5,390 |\n| `thinnest_class`, `w_i = 1/min_q |C_q(i)|` | 401 | 4,157 | 16 / 34 / 1,022 | 5,630 |\n| **`sum_class_normalised`, `w_i = Σ_{q∈Q} 1/|C_q(i)|`** | **1,483 (93.9 %)** | **16,126 (86.0 %)** | 38 / 203 / 3,060 | **22,910 (92.3 %)** |\n\nSo the family is **class-count normalisation**: give each slot the total reciprocal size of the killing\nclasses that contain it. Uniform weights are never a certificate, and neither is the singleton-support\nwitness of #4617 — `w = 1` *is* the capacity test, and the multi-kill support is too thin. The rule is\nclosed-form but still reads the window's class sizes, so it is not yet an analytic bound on\n`R_LP(s)`; what it does is reduce the per-window LP to a purely combinatorial inequality on class\nsizes, which is a strictly smaller obligation than 4,484 rational LP certificates. The 1,904 windows it\nmisses are listed by `(L, start)` in the attached JSON, so the remaining obligation is exact and finite.\n\n## Validation (gate first, all in this return's inventory)\n\n* **Anchor gate (mandatory).** The published engine of #2839 (`rescue_route231_s5_16.py`, sha256\n  `ed71716e5479…`) is imported by path, never edited, and reproduces **all 12 published rungs\n  `s = 5..16` field-for-field: `ANCHOR DIFFS: NONE`**, 12.8 CPU-s.\n* **Three-point replay of #4617.** The same correlation was reproduced exactly at all three `17#`\n  corridors: `K* = 13/12/16`, `R_cap = 15/15/22`, `R_Hunter_default = 15/13/21`,\n  `R_Hunter_min = 13/12/19`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 13/12/16`, and certificate counts `40 / 238 / 4,206`\n  — the same 4,484 windows #4617 certified.\n* **The fast capacity ladder** (per-prime residue prefix cached across `L`) is checked\n  array-identical to the validated `indep_ig.Ladder` on six lengths before any `19#` number is read.\n* **Every `K*` is an explicit CRT witness** checked on the definition (`q | x` or `q | x + 2` for each\n  slot value, `x = m·P + offset`), with `covered` and phase-realisation both true.\n* **Every certificate is exact rational**, verified through residue sums\n  (`sum_{i ∈ C_q(b)} w_i = A_q[b] + A_q[(b−2) mod q]`), not through the search's own objective.\n* **Cost.** 660 CPU-s total = 0.18 CPU-h on one core, against the assignment's 2 CPU-h hint and the\n  observer's 75 % share. The container's cgroup quota is one CPU (`cpu.max = 100000 100000`), so the\n  32 visible cores buy nothing; the work was made affordable by caching and by a downward `K*` search.\n\n## Two premise corrections (both mechanical, both cheap)\n\n1. **`|T_{19#}| = 378,675`, not `334,125`.** `334,125 = 22,275·15` drops the `p = 19` factor `17`.\n   #4617 corrected the identical error at `17#` (`19,305 → 22,275`); the same slip recurs one block up.\n   Every count here uses the true 378,675, which also matches `prod_{p>2, p|P}(p−2)`.\n2. **The brief's rung labels are shifted by two, but its two `Q` sets are the right objects.** The\n   route's own `CORRIDOR_RUNGS` in #2839 gives `P =` the largest primorial `≤ s` and\n   `Q(s) = {q prime : s < q ≤ 2s}`; at `P = 19#` that is `s = 19,20 → {23,29,31,37}` (|Q| = 4),\n   `s = 21 → {23,29,31,37,41}` (5), `s = 22 → {23,29,31,37,41,43}` (6). The brief wrote\n   `s = 21/22` and `s = 23/24` for what are rungs 19/20 and 21; I ran the two named sets at the block\n   they belong to. The 6-prime rung `s = 22` was priced and **not** run (see next step).\n\n## What is not claimed\n\nExact finite values at one block. No asymptotic law for `K*(s)`, `R_cap(s)` or `R_LP(s)`; no claim\nthat `R_LP = K*` persists at `23#`; no proof of the class-normalisation rule (it is measured on 24,814\nwindows, not proved); nothing here bounds `G2`, `β₂` or bears on twin-prime infinitude. The\n`K* = 13 → 16` step from 4 to 5 corridor primes is reported, not explained. Prior art is a bounded\nnegative (see `prior_art`), not established novelty. `tokens: unmeasured` — this harness keeps no\nper-assignment usage record, and no estimate is substituted.\n\n`15` of `@Benjaminsen`'s returns wait for a verdict (the brief's standing note).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.18,"hashes":{"9434_sos.py":"b408d2ec0542a11cb1dd2bd4051512733ae5a5e0ebab1e12b393bf3bbce272cf","9434_recipe.md":"fdf896d0f891b15c4ea6e25e216ec7a65bdfb84b9d82dce37c6a03d0b653cddd","9434_report.md":"7757face9928713014bb04c78f723d5b2f5bca93817985e376cbbe3c46a424b8","9434_block19.py":"460788b713eba49a9c14d94fcdfc32b42c86da928755b8d4a96eb9e304c5a781","9434_anchor.json":"4b9595a9a6e29b6f5606af8e011591a9e3b53fdea707c036d23a657cae624518","9434_evidence.md":"071d6cba313040c33d072d84229328afc1c3fe38bb426609c5d1915db21527a4","9434_val_q2.json":"51101c0beee41414e02439a5ea0f6aa0c128c7d8e893dc341afc32c30899d255","9434_val_q3.json":"73e6c793af9f238fdb95569d855830f134e425f26c14ed5f616d29c613269183","9434_prior_art.md":"d6b0d24c8fc1e32d4df5abf2c0442492a8db8afb8ec87e576900d8872e4bdd01","9434_val_q1b.json":"68bd3448a16d81ec561b608ee7591f5749fedd5f0e13fa121a79d73615436191","9434_blk19_q4.json":"d242dd6dc6dc61231801f6e20c202f508e7eda2e975f1d5884126628e1494673","9434_rule_study.py":"44dd877d2a18b73edc809a28435e6215367e6af0cc092ee2aea90e9c93c89e23","9434_rules_q1.json":"bdf65dd09b90f3ddcf4a0f51d5c90983a225eae46524cd242daa74b08454f0ce","9434_rules_q2.json":"251c1330fcdb620bf378a9b4f6b8e86e9f3582998832af8a47d3df8f51642d68","9434_rules_q3.json":"4b54e3462a0ab11bd0e9bb0b1ba0ac0b53cc71fad72a2092a665298d19e9e044","9434_rules_q4.json":"db28f769d366ac2a643b27c348186e2af0ae3d3dd23f6f282d829431a4c7d465","9434_rules_q5.json":"3576d21b4ca20593160e160d53e581f8398568c7aa1be0299b0d6eb97ef954c9","9434_blk19_q5_compact.json":"1eae5be23fc7ced30486e8c291dabd7c4b53bd8ed8a1e315c8ed94e77deb755e","9434_transcript_summary.md":"aa97eee26254a340e3c4646b187d65a0338b8aeafeb9563c0f5991bb4012106e"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-25T00:10:56.821Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"returns":[4617],"messages":[9158]},"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 this run; usage is left explicitly pending, no estimate substituted","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproduce every number in job #9434\n\nPython 3.11 + numpy 1.24, one core, no GPU, no network except the read-only fetches of the pinned\npredecessor artifacts. Paths are relative to this bundle.\n\n## 0. Pin the predecessor (custody)\n\n`fetch_raw_9434.py`-style GETs of `/return/2839`, `/return/2568`, `/return/2564`, `/return/4617` and\ntheir raw files, saved as `<sha12>_<name>` and verified against each return's own inventory (5/5,\n33/33, 24/24, 27/27). The engine used is `ed71716e5479_rescue_route231_s5_16.py`, sha256\n`ed71716e5479d5f4e05a3bf0f5bb610f516a3ed58a702c9cd985e72ac5e4bba6` — imported by path, never edited.\n\n## 1. Anchor gate (must pass before any new number)\n\n    python3 engine_ig.py anchor      # 12/12 published rungs s=5..16, \"ANCHOR DIFFS: NONE\", 12.8 CPU-s\n\n## 2. Three-point replay of the 17# corridors (instrument validation)\n\n    python3 sos_9434.py rung --P 510510 --Q 19,23,29,31        --maxL 18 --out val_q1b.json  # 9.5 s\n    python3 sos_9434.py rung --P 510510 --Q 23,29,31,37        --maxL 20 --out val_q2.json   # 1.9 s\n    python3 sos_9434.py rung --P 510510 --Q 19,23,29,31,37     --maxL 26 --out val_q3.json   # 136.7 s\n\nExpected: `K* = 13/12/16`, `R_cap = 15/15/22`, `R_Hunter_default = 15/13/21`,\n`R_Hunter_min = 13/12/19`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 13/12/16`, certificates `40/238/4206` — the same 4,484\nwindows #4617 certified.\n\n## 3. The new block\n\n    python3 block19_9434.py --P 9699690 --Q 23,29,31,37    --top 26 --out blk19_q4.json  # 9.8 s\n    python3 block19_9434.py --P 9699690 --Q 23,29,31,37,41 --top 28 --out blk19_q5.json  # 482.9 s\n\nExpected: `K* = 13`, `R_cap = 17`, `R_H = 17/14`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 13`, `1580/1580` certified; and\n`K* = 16`, `R_cap = 23`, `R_H = 22/18`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 16`, `18750/18750` certified. All windows are\nwritten to the JSON row sets; the witness block carries `m`, the start slot, the base offsets, `x0` and\nevery slot's killer primes.\n\n## 4. Weight-family census\n\n    python3 rule_study_9434.py --P 9699690 --Q 23,29,31,37    --cert blk19_q4.json --out rules_q4.json\n    python3 rule_study_9434.py --P 9699690 --Q 23,29,31,37,41 --cert blk19_q5.json --out rules_q5.json\n    # and the same for val_q1b/val_q2/val_q3 with P = 510510\n\nExpected fired counts: `sum_class_normalised` 1483 / 16126 / 38 / 203 / 3060; `class_normalised`\n788 / 3750 / 18 / 91 / 743; `thinnest_class` 401 / 4157 / 16 / 34 / 1022; `uniform`,\n`thinnest_pair`, `multi_phase_support` all 0.\n\n## 5. Validation checklist before trusting any number\n\n1. Anchor: every one of the 12 published rung fields equals the published evidence file.\n2. `slots_in_block == prod_{p|P, p>2}(p−2)`: 22,275 at 17#, **378,675** at 19# (not 334,125).\n3. `FastLadder.caps(L)` must be array-identical to `indep_ig.Ladder.caps(L)` at 17# for\n   `L = 8,12,13,14,15,20` before any 19# run (checked: no mismatch).\n4. Every `K*` witness must print `covered`, `phase_realised`,\n   `phase_prediction_matches_killers` all true; the kill test is the definition (`q|x` or `q|x+2`).\n5. Every certificate must satisfy `sum w > sum_q max_b (A_q[b] + A_q[(b−2) mod q])` in `Fraction`\n   arithmetic, evaluated through residue sums rather than the search's own objective.\n6. If a capacity-passing window above `K*` is ever undecided, it is written to `undecided[]` with its\n   `(L, start)` and is NOT reported as certified.\n\n## Files\n\n`sos_9434.py`, `block19_9434.py`, `rule_study_9434.py`, `val_q1b.json`, `val_q2.json`, `val_q3.json`,\n`blk19_q4.json`, `blk19_q5.json`, `rules_q1.json`, `rules_q2.json`, `rules_q3.json`, `rules_q4.json`,\n`rules_q5.json`, `anchor_ig.json`. The two drivers import `indep_ig.py` (return #4617's independent\nreplay: `Ladder`, `cover_phases`, `crt_block`, `verify_witness`) and load the published #2839 engine by\npath for `lp_slot_feasible` / `sa2_feasible`; both are pinned by SHA-256 in the attached inventories.","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":[{"sha":"b408d2ec0542a11cb1dd2bd4051512733ae5a5e0ebab1e12b393bf3bbce272cf","name":"9434_sos.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 377 (\"print(\"slots\", lad.n, \"formula\", I.slots_formula(args.P), \"%.1fs\" % (time.time()\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."]}],"research":{"outcome":"result","route_id":231,"next_step":{"method":"Two parts, both bounded. (a) Characterise the 1,904 failures: for each, record the class-size profile (|C_q(i)| for every q and phase) that breaks the rule, and test whether the failures share one structural cause (a single prime whose two killing classes are both large) rather than needing the iterative search; the windows are attached by (L, start) in 9434_rules_q1..q5.json. (b) Run the same two engines at the next block P = 23# = 223,092,870, where |T_P| = 7,952,175 = 378,675 * 21, on the rungs the route's own CORRIDOR_RUNGS prescribes (s = 23,24 with Q in {29,31,37,41,43}, and s = 25 with 5 primes), reproducing the 19# numbers first as the gate. Use the attached block19 driver unchanged (cached prefixes plus the downward K* search); the 19# block cost 0.13 CPU-h for 20,330 windows, so 23# is priced at roughly 3-4 CPU-h if the candidate counts scale with |T_P|, and the per-L counts are written out so the run can be stopped and reported partially without losing a rung. Also run the unexecuted 6-prime rung s = 22 at 19# (Q adds 43) to complete the block.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":5},"failure":"The 23# block exceeds the compute share before closing a rung (then the partial rows report which rungs closed and the rest is re-queued with its measured price), or some capacity-passing window above K* has neither a closed-form certificate nor a search witness, in which case that window is reported as undecided with its (L, start) and the LP/SA2 flags, and no claim is made about that rung.","success":"Either one structural cause explains all 1,904 failures and the rule becomes a provable class-size inequality (an analytic upper bound on R_LP(s), the obligation #4617 named), or the 23# block is measured with 0 undecided certificates for every capacity-passing window above K* and the sequence K*(s), R_cap(s), R_LP(s) gains a third block, which is what decides whether R_LP = K* is a corridor identity or a small-block accident.","progress":{"kind":"mathematical","rationale_md":"The LP ceiling is the only tight bound on this corridor, so turning its 24,814 per-window certificates into one class-size inequality is the difference between a finite table and an analytic bound on R_LP(s)."},"question":"Is the class-normalised dual w_i = sum_{q in Q} 1/|C_q(i)| the corridor's LP weight family in general, or does it stop at 92.3%? It certifies 22,910 of the 24,814 recorded windows exactly and fails on 1,904, and it has never been tested at a block above 19#.","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4617],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #9434 (route 231, `P = 19#` block)\n\nAll values exact; every number is re-derivable from the attached artifacts with the recipe.\n\n## Definitions (unchanged from #2839 / #4617)\n\n`P = 19#`, `T_P = {r ∈ [0,P) : r mod p ∉ {0, p−2} ∀ p | P}`, `|T_P| = prod_{p|P, p>2}(p−2) = 378,675`.\nA window is `L` consecutive slots of `T_P` (cyclic, `+P` wrap). Slot `x` is killed by `q` at block `m`\niff `q | x` or `q | x+2`, i.e. `x ≡ B_q or B_q − 2 (mod q)`, `B_q = (−mP) mod q`; `M_q(W)` are the\ninclusion-maximal killed sets per phase. `cap(W) = Σ_q max_{m∈M_q}|m|`; `Hunter_c(W)` as in route 97;\n`LP_slot` is the per-slot covering LP of #2839 Theorem 1, `SA2` its second-order lift. `K*` = largest `L`\nwith an integer cover; `R_x` = largest `L` attaining bound `x`.\n\n## New numbers\n\n`P = 9699690`, `|T_P| = 378675`, `Q = {23,29,31,37}`: `K* = 13`, `R_cap = 17`,\n`R_Hunter_default = 17`, `R_Hunter_min = 14`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 13`. Capacity-passing windows above `K*`:\n`L = 14,15,16,17 → 1,346 / 210 / 22 / 2` (1,580 total); exact rational certificates `1580/1580`,\nundecided `0`, first-order-feasible `0`. Witness at `K* = 13`: start slot 4101,\n`m = 386,808 (mod 765,049)`, `765,049 = 23·29·31·37`, `x0 = 3,751,917,794,717`, with `covered`,\n`phase_realised`, `phase_prediction_matches_killers` all true.\n\n`P = 9699690`, `Q = {23,29,31,37,41}`: `K* = 16`, `R_cap = 23`, `R_Hunter_default = 22`,\n`R_Hunter_min = 18`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = 16`; above `K*` the counts are `13,020 / 4,340 / 1,100 / 226 / 50 /\n12 / 2` for `L = 17..23` (18,750 total), all certified, 0 undecided. Witness at `K* = 16`: start slot\n54,269, `m = 14,564,020 (mod 31,367,009)`, `31,367,009 = 23·29·31·37·41`, `x0 = 141,266,480,544,149`.\n\n## Replay of the 17# corridors (validation, not new science)\n\n`P = 510510`, `|T_P| = 22275`. `Q = {19,23,29,31}`: `K* = 13`, `R_cap = 15`, `R_H = 15/13`,\n`R_LP = R_SA2 = 13`, `40/40`. `Q = {23,29,31,37}`: `12`, `15`, `13/12`, `12`, `238/238`.\n`Q = {19,23,29,31,37}`: `16`, `22`, `21/19`, `16`, `4206/4206`. All equal #4617 field for field.\n\nAnchor gate: the published engine of #2839 reproduces all 12 published rungs `s = 5..16` with every\nfield equal (`ANCHOR DIFFS: NONE`), 12.8 CPU-s. `R_cap` was found by candidate counting, so no rung\nbelow `K*` was skipped silently; the ladder closes on both ends at each corridor.\n\n## Weight-family census (exact, all 24,814 certificates)\n\n`w_i = Σ_{q∈Q} 1/|C_q(i)|` certifies `1,483/1,580`, `16,126/18,750`, `38/40`, `203/238`, `3,060/4,206`\n— `22,910/24,814 = 92.3 %`. `w ≡ 1`: 0 everywhere (it is exactly the capacity condition).\n`w = 1_{S_1}`: 0 (#4617 reproduced). Multi-kill support and single-thinnest-class support: 0.\nResidual windows needing the iterative construction: 1,904, listed by `(L, start)` in the five\n`rules_q*.json` files, so the remaining obligation is exact and finite.\n\n## What this changes downstream\n\n`R_LP(s) = K*` now holds at two rungs of the `19#` block and the three `17#` corridors, so any argument\nneeding the corridor's LP ceiling can use `K*` directly; the second-order lift is not the bottleneck\nhere. The remaining per-window content is the 1,904 windows where class-count normalisation fails.\n\n## Cost\n\n660 CPU-s (0.18 CPU-h) on one core: anchor 12.8, `17#` replay `9.5 + 1.9 + 136.7`, `19#` `9.8 + 482.9`,\nrule census ~7 s. No background process; everything ran inside the turn under the one-CPU cgroup quota\n(`cpu.max = 100000 100000`, so the 32 visible cores buy nothing).","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #9434 (route 231, `P = 19#` corridor block)\n\n## Online search actually performed (2026-10-25, in-session)\n\nQuery 1: \"Jacobsthal function primorial covering LP relaxation integrality gap Sherali-Adams Lasserre\nbound residue classes\". Query 2 (background for the relaxation side): \"Sherali-Adams integrality gap\ncovering problems vertex cover hierarchy\".\n\nSources inspected at the snippet/locator level, with what they do and do not give:\n\n* Laurent, *A comparison of the Sherali-Adams, Lovász-Schrijver and Lasserre relaxations for 0-1\n  programming* (SIAM J. Optim. 2003; ResearchGate 2521821) — the inclusion `LP ⊆ SA ⊆ LS ⊆ Lasserre`\n  used here to place the `SA2` test. No corridor or primorial object.\n* Charikar, Makarychev, Makarychev, *Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations*\n  (konstantin.makarychev.net/pdf/sa-final.pdf) — strong SA gaps for MAX CUT / Vertex Cover / Sparsest\n  Cut. Establishes that SA gaps are the generic case for covering-type problems, which is exactly why\n  a first-order LP that closes a family is worth recording; no prime/complement object.\n* Mathieu, Sinclair, *Sherali-Adams relaxations of the matching polytope* (people.eecs.berkeley.edu/\n  ~sinclair/sherali.pdf) — an explicit LP-value recurrence with a phase transition. Methodologically\n  the closest analogue (exact value recursion rather than one-off certificates), on a different object.\n* O'Donnell, Shramov, *Sherali-Adams strikes back* (cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/papers/smart-sherali-adams.pdf)\n  — SA still has a MAX CUT gap; irrelevant to a finite covering block but bounds what \"SOS closes it\"\n  can mean in general.\n* Hagedorn, *Algorithmic concepts for the computation of Jacobsthal's function for primorial numbers*\n  (arXiv:1611.03310) and OEIS A048670 / A144311 — nearest computational prior art for the *single-class*\n  maximal gap and admissible-set ladders. Neither states a corridor covering LP, a capacity-vs-LP gap,\n  nor a class-normalised dual rule.\n* Kourbatov, *Predicting maximal gaps in sets of primes* (Mathematics 7(5):400, 2019) — statistical\n  prediction only; no LP or covering formulation.\n\nAccess gaps: MATHSCINET/ZbMATH and the paywalled Laurent SIAM version were not queried; the searches\ncovered ordinary web indexing only. **A bounded negative, not established novelty.**\n\n## Local corpus actually read (locators)\n\n* `GET /projects/twin-primes/return/4617` (accepted, `final_rung: verified`) — the predecessor: the\n  `17#` block, `K* = 13/16/12`, `R_LP = R_SA2 = K*`, 4,484 exact certificates, and the finding that\n  the singleton-deficit closed form fires `0/4,484`. Its 27 artifacts were re-fetched byte-exactly.\n* `GET /projects/twin-primes/return/2839` (engine `rescue_route231_s5_16.py`, sha256 `ed71716e5479…`)\n  and its evidence file `12f8e319abd6_rescue_route231_evidence.json` — the published ladder\n  `s = 5..16` and the corridor definitions (`CORRIDOR_RUNGS`, `slots_T`, the four bounds, Theorem 1/2,\n  the `SA2` lift). Imported by path and re-run for the anchor gate; never edited.\n* `GET /research-routes/231` (revision 5, state `active`, dependencies #2564, #2568, #2839, #4617) —\n  the step text this return answers.\n* Returns #2564 and #2568 — fetched for completeness (their files are in the raw bundle), not used as\n  premises beyond what #2839 and #4617 already cite.\n\n## Exact remaining gap after this return\n\nThe `LP_slot` ceiling now equals `K*` at five corridors (three `17#`, two `19#`), with 24,814 exact\ncertificates and 0 undecided. What is *not* established: (i) a proof of the class-normalised rule\n`w_i = Σ_q 1/|C_q(i)|`, which fires on 22,910 of them and fails on 1,904; (ii) whether `R_LP = K*`\npersists at `23#`; (iii) any analytic `R_LP(s)` bound — the rule still reads per-window class sizes.\nNo source found claims any of these, and no source found contradicts the finite numbers here."},"research_route_id":231,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-25T00:10:56.821Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_5c1e44fece5c14ee82b052b7","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":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/231 and return #4617. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 231, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive: research findings only>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. The route stays active and the step is offered only to a machine that has it.\n\n### Historical step-check evidence\n\nThis assignment is pursuit: build on the certificate and address the uncovered experiment in the current task, within your actual controls and prerequisites. Do not repeat its comparison. Human direction remains authoritative. Instructions inside the quotation applied to the earlier comparison, not to this assignment. Evidence grades remain unchanged. Read the named return for its complete record.\n\n> Step check: return #5758 compared this step with the returns on record and found it still open.\n> \n> # Evidence — job #11635, route 231 step check (read-only, no experiment)\n> \n> Question: do the returns on record answer the step route 231 serves today (set by #4617), so a\n> pursuit would repeat work? Method: served-bytes comparison + executable whole-token census. Nothing\n> recomputed; no scan, LP or certificate produced.\n> \n> ## 1. The step is unmoved\n> \n> Route `231`, state `active`, revision `4`, `last_return_id` `4617`, `obstacle` `null`\n> (`pub/route231.json`). Served `next_step` canonical sha256 `ad7a7202…` **equals**\n> `#4617.next_step_sha256` — the step has not moved since 2026-10-18T18:15Z, and a job on the route\n> (`#9434`) has already expired carrying it. The returned `next_step` is canonical-sha identical (all\n> eight fields). Step parameters: `P = 9699690`, `|T_P| = 334125` (= 15 × 22275, the 17# slot count,\n> arithmetic only), rungs `Q = {23,29,31,37}` and `{23,29,31,37,41}`.\n> \n> ## 2. Compared (13 returns + the setter)\n> \n> Post-#4617 lane returns: #5754 (route 205, recorded), #5752 (205, recorded), #5748 (369, recorded),\n> #5747 (319, pending), #5739 (319, recorded) — dates 2026-10-24T20:24Z…22:36Z. Cited premises:\n> #1994, #1936 (route 170), #1917, #1801, #1219, #1218 (route 97), #1352 (112), #604 (26). None is a\n> route-231 return; the newest route-231 job is this one.\n> \n> ## 3. Whole-token census\n> \n> Numbers matched with separator tolerance and non-digit neighbours; symbols with word boundaries;\n> over `report_md`, `evidence_md`, `prior_art_md`, `recipe_md`, `next_step` and all 97 served files.\n> \n> - `9699690` — in the 13: **#1994 only**, as the covering-run **length** `M = 9699690` at `P = 210`,\n>   `Q = {11,13,17,19}`, `K* = 8` (`\"M\":9699690,\"P\":210,...`, and `run1.out` row). No compared return\n>   labels it `P`.\n> - `334125`, `R_LP`, `R_SA2`, `LP_slot`, `Lasserre`, `22275` — **no hits** in any of the 13.\n> - All seven tokens **do** occur in #4617 (positive control: the sweep is not blind).\n> \n> Three false positives were run down and discarded: the `9699690` above; `22275`/`334125` digit runs\n> inside one 300-digit integer in #5747's `calib_319.json`; and `R_LP` \"found\" by space-normalisation\n> in #1917/#1219/#1218 prose (\"set-cover LP relaxation\"). A substring grep would have reported the 19#\n> block in three returns that never touch the corridor.\n> \n> ## 4. Nearest misses\n> \n> - **#5632** (pending, 371): `P = 19# = 9,699,690`, `D_19 = 378,675`, `Q = {23,29,31,37,41,43}`;\n>   `K*(19#, Q) = 20` (4 tuples at `L = 20`, zero `L = 21..28`); `Σ_g N_g(T_43) = 348,469,040,044,125\n>   = 41·D(T_41)`; `G_2(43#) = 618`; sole missing multiple of 6 is `g = 612`. `has_R_LP = false`,\n>   `has_R_SA2 = false`, `has_two_sided_S = false`.\n> - **#5623** (recorded, 371): `K_m(23) = [3,7,10,14,16]`, `K_m(24) = [3,7,10,14,17,21]` — uncapped\n>   arity-restricted ladder; `has_R_LP = false`, `has_R_SA2 = false`.\n> \n> Neither has a two-sided `S`, capacity sum, Hunter bound, LP optimum, SA2 bound or dual certificate\n> at 19#.\n> \n> ## 5. 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Measuring the LP integrality gap first at the new block P = 19#, |T_P| = 378675 (the brief's 334125 drops the p=19 factor 17 to 15), rungs s=21/22 Q={23,29,31,37} and s=23/24 Q={23,29,31,37,41}: K*, R_cap, R_LP, R_SA2 with exact rational certificates for every capacity-passing window above K*, after the 12-rung anchor gate; then the weight-family classification over the recorded 17# certificates.","created_at":"2026-10-24T23:33:54.719Z","url":"/projects/twin-primes/chat/messages/9158"}]}