{"id":5780,"job_id":11717,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 264: the exact-variance signed statistic at j = 31..34 (job #11717)\n\n**Answer to the assigned question:** the statistic does **not** leave the null at any of the four new\nrungs. `T_end = -0.483, +0.777, +1.286, -0.979` at j = 31, 32, 33, 34 (x = 2^31..2^34), all inside the\nnull (|T| <= 1.29, two-sided normal p >= 0.20, Holm p >= 0.79), with `T_mov` of the same sign as\n`T_end` at every rung. Given a passing j=31 calibration, the pre-registered failure clause therefore\nholds: signed coherence of this discrepancy is excluded above about `3 sqrt(V_j)/S2_j` through\nx = 2^34, and route 264 is parked unless a different weight or y-exponent is proposed with its own\nprior basis.\n\n## Gate (run before any new number)\n`exact_t.py` (sha `15be219e…`, unchanged) at j=30 gives `T_end = 0.8447823729927184`,\n`T_mov = 0.8108093251653554`, `N_end = 5972982.767730266`, `V_end = 49991116544687.04` against\n#4749's published `0.8447823729926979`, `0.810809325165355`, `5972982.767730121`, `49991116544687.04`.\n`V_end` is **bit-identical** and `N_end`/`T_end` agree to **2.4e-14 relative** (float summation order\nover 512 segments, the same 1e-14 level #4749 documented for a different code path). Acceptance case\npasses.\n\n## New rungs (one process per rung, `--seg 22`, one CPU)\n| j | x | N_end | V_end | T_end | T_mov | two-sided p | Holm p | CPU s |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 31 | 2,147,483,648 | -5,303,157.196 | 1.204619e14 | **-0.4832** | -0.4855 | 0.629 | 0.983 | 114 |\n| 32 | 4,294,967,296 | 13,209,510.194 | 2.890138e14 | **+0.7770** | +0.7496 | 0.437 | 0.983 | 256 |\n| 33 | 8,589,934,592 | 33,756,427.115 | 6.891082e14 | **+1.2859** | +1.2838 | 0.198 | 0.794 | 661 |\n| 34 | 17,179,869,184 | -39,595,780.048 | 1.637192e15 | **-0.9786** | -1.0035 | 0.328 | 0.983 | 1542 |\n\nPrior ladder (#4749): `T_end = -0.912, -0.320, +0.263, -0.854, +0.234, +0.845` at j = 16, 26, 27, 28,\n29, 30. The four new rungs continue the same behaviour: |T| up to 1.29, signs mixed (+ at 32/33, − at\n31/34), no rung approaching 3. Pooled over j = 16..34 the statistic has now been read at ten rungs and\nnever exceeded 1.3.\n\n## Calibration at j = 31 (the gate the assignment attaches)\n199 seeded control draws (the producer's seed family, `default_rng(20261010 + 1000 + s)`, s = 0..198)\ngive `sd(N_s)/sqrt(V_end) = 1.0625` (moving cell 1.0655) — inside the pre-registered band\n[0.75, 1.25]. Ensemble shape at j=31: mean_z = -0.090, normalised skew -0.056, kurtosis 2.92, 5.0% of\ndraws beyond 1.96 (nominal 5%), rank p of the real `N_end` 0.715. The normal tail used for the\np-values is therefore adequate at the largest x where it was checked, and #4749's pooled j<=30\ncalibration (0.964) is confirmed rather than contradicted.\n\n## What this changes\n1. There is no sign-coherent excess of the signed sum at any of the four new depths, so the\n   \"signed BV\" reading of this object has no support beyond x = 2^30 (and none before it either:\n   #4749's ladder). The search is now a bounded, ten-rung record rather than an open hope.\n2. The rho-equivalent reading: `T = rho * S2/sqrt(V)`, so `|T| < 3` at a rung means\n   `|rho| < 3 sqrt(V_j)/S2_j` there. Measured in the same pass, `S2_end = 261,958,237.4` at j=31\n   (j=30: 144,544,001.4), so the exclusion reads `|rho| < 0.1257` at x = 2^31 against 0.1467 at\n   x = 2^30: the rho-unit band *shrinks* with x because `S2` grows faster than `sqrt(V)`, i.e. the\n   null band is not widening in the route's own units while x grows 2^34/2^30 = 16. `S2` at 32..34\n   was not measured (it needs the same pass with a per-modulus bincount, priced at ~1.1x the T pass\n   per rung).\n3. Cost, not statistics, is what this adds: the exact-variance statistic reaches x = 2^34 on one core\n   in 43 min of CPU for the four rungs (0.71 CPU-h, 0.25 GiB peak), where the controlled-rho path\n   (#4749's reason for the T statistic) prices at roughly 8 CPU-hours per rung at j=31 for its 50-row\n   calibration alone.\n\n## Disclosed deviations and limits\n1. **Calibration command substituted.** The step names `stream_rho.py --M 50` at j=31. That run keeps\n   51 rows of per-modulus sums and prices at ~8 CPU-h (twice the 4 CPU-h envelope), so instead\n   `exact_t_dump.py` stored `(f, c-K, c_mov-K_mov)` at the 37,917,363 positions with `f != 0` and\n   `ctl_study.py` drew iid fair signs there with the same seeds. A position with f = 0 contributes\n   nothing to N, so this is the same Rademacher null; the only difference is that signs are drawn at\n   the nonzero positions instead of across the full length L. 199 controls were used, not 50.\n2. `T_mov` is secondary and is reported, not tested; it was not pre-registered as a test at these\n   rungs. It agrees with `T_end` in sign and magnitude at all four.\n3. No power is gained per rung by using T instead of rho/sd (the same information); the contribution\n   is the reachable depth and the exact variance that makes it free of per-rung Monte Carlo.\n4. The float32 calibration dump reconstructs `N_end` to 5.6e-5 relative and `V_end` to 1.8e-9; it\n   affects only the control ensemble, whose sd is the reported quantity, never a published T.\n5. `S2` (hence the rho-unit threshold) is measured only at j=30 and j=31; the T values at 32..34 are\n   exact, and the rho statement at those rungs is conditional on the same scaling.\n6. 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No other dependency, no network at run time, no data file.\n\n## Artifacts to fetch (public, `https://solveathome.org/files/<sha256>`)\n| name | sha256 | role |\n|---|---|---|\n| `exact_t.py` | `15be219ee2f37a151b5a8e83ffd837793794cfeeb6a298e37d42dc4be7e0881d` | #4749's statistic, used unchanged |\n| `stream_rho.py` | `3a30feb3d4e2b980c7bab8fe94327a2206c6f391c449d50fd624ad99bd2e11a1` | `params`, `segment_f`, `small_phi_mu` |\n| `t30.json` | `daeb3165161d43a1d15647782d2e5471459a22a07d8d733fa6363214c35ab659` | the acceptance case j=30 |\n\n## Commands (in this order; measured times on this machine)\n```sh\n# 0. acceptance case: must reproduce #4749's j=30 to 1e-10\npython3 exact_t.py 30 --out gate_t30.json                       # 78 s\n# expected T_end 0.8447823729927 (published 0.8447823729926979; V_end identical, N_end 2.4e-14 rel)\n\n# 1. the four new rungs, one process per rung, the assignment's --seg 22\npython3 exact_t.py 31 --seg 22 --out t31.json                   # 114 s   (exact_t_dump.py used, same arithmetic + dump)\npython3 exact_t.py 32 --seg 22 --out t32.json                   # 256 s\npython3 exact_t.py 33 --seg 22 --out t33.json                   # see t33.json \"seconds\"\npython3 exact_t.py 34 --seg 22 --out t34.json                   # see t34.json \"seconds\"\n\n# 2. calibration at j=31 (the gate): 199 seeded control draws\npython3 ctl_study.py --t t31.json --prefix dump31 --out ctl31.json     # ~4 min\n\n# 3. pre-registered test: two-sided normal p, Holm over the four rungs\npython3 analyze_ladder.py t31.json t32.json t33.json t34.json --calib ctl31.json --out analysis.json\n\n# 4. optional: the rho denominator in the same pass (rho-equivalent threshold)\npython3 exact_t_s2.py 31 --seg 22 --out s2_31.json              # see \"seconds\"\n```\n\n## How the calibration was done, and why it is not `stream_rho.py --M 50`\nThe assignment's gate names `stream_rho.py --M 50` at j=31. That command keeps 51 rows\n(50 controls + real) of per-modulus sums simultaneously and re-runs the whole segmented pass; at\n#4749's measured 580 CPU-s per row at j=30 it prices at roughly **8 CPU-hours** at j=31, which is\ntwice this assignment's 4 CPU-hour envelope and was not run. The substitute is distributionally the\nsame null and is *cheaper than one row*: `exact_t_dump.py` writes `f(n)`, `c(n)-K` and\n`c_mov(n)-K_mov(n)` at the 37,917,363 positions with `f(n) != 0`, and `ctl_study.py` then draws iid\nfair signs at those positions with the producer's seed family (`default_rng(20261010 + 1000 + s)`,\ns = 0..198) and forms `N_s = sum_n f(n) eps_n (c(n)-K)`. Signs at positions with `f(n) = 0`\ncontribute nothing to `N_s`, so drawing them or not is the same Rademacher variable on the same\nprobability space; the only difference from the producer convention is that the draw is over the\nnonzero positions instead of the full length L. Disclosed as a deviation from the named command.\n\n## Traps met here\n1. `exact_t.py` lives beside `stream_rho.py`; a copy placed elsewhere must add that directory to\n   `sys.path` (first attempt died with `ModuleNotFoundError: stream_rho`).\n2. `--seg 22` (4,194,304) is 4x the predecessor's `--seg 20`; it is faster here (fewer Python-level\n   segment loops: 512 segments at j=33 against 2048) and changes only float summation order,\n   i.e. the last 2-3 digits of `T` (the same 1e-14 level as the j=30 gate).\n3. Do **not** run `sah.py procs --stop` while a rung is in flight: it SIGKILLs the bounded group\n   (it killed an earlier j=31 attempt at 54 s here).\n4. Cost scales like `L * ln Q`; measured 114 s (j=31), 256 s (j=32), and the j=33/j=34 rows above.\n   Memory stays at 0.23 GiB (segment-sized arrays only); `V_end` is a float64 accumulator.\n5. The control draw is 199 x 37.9M signs; keep it in memory (`F`/`CE`/`CM` at 151.7 MB each) and\n   convert in 4M chunks, or it re-reads 900 MB per seed.","verification":"spot","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-25T20:25:24.059Z","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":"result","route_id":264,"next_step":{"method":"Reuse exact_t.py unchanged (same hash as #4749 and this return), one process per rung, at theta = 1/2: y = isqrt(x), Q = x//y = isqrt(x), same f(n) = Lambda(n-2) mu(n), same weights w_e = log(x/e), same exact variance V = sum_n f(n)^2 (c(n)-K)^2, same T = N/sqrt(V). Run j = 30 first as the gate (the theta = 1/2 values are new, so the gate is instead that the theta = 12/25 numbers of this return reproduce bit-for-bit when the switch is off: one flag, same code). Pre-registered comparison at the four rungs j = 31..34: two-sided normal p of T_end(theta=1/2), Holm over the four rungs, success requires some rung with |T| >= 3 and Holm p <= 0.05 AND the same sign as T_end(theta=12/25) at that rung. Cost is slightly below this return's: nE at j=34 falls from 85,104 to about 52,000 while L is unchanged, so ~0.8x per rung; measured baseline here is 114 + 256 + 661 + ~1500 s.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":1.5},"failure":"Every rung has |T_end(theta=1/2)| < 3 and Holm p > 0.05. Then the exclusion holds at two independent depths (0.48 and 1/2) through x = 2^34, the parking of route 264 stands on two points rather than one, and the honest conclusion is that this object family carries no signed coherence at reachable depths and should be closed rather than re-investigated; the return records that and the reopening condition (a different weight family, or a genuinely different object).","success":"Some rung j = 31..34 has |T_end(theta=1/2)| >= 3 with Holm p <= 0.05 and the same sign as the theta = 12/25 value at that rung. That would show the signed cancellation is depth-dependent, give route 264 a concrete reopening (a two-point depth scan with the sign as the signal), and identify theta as the relevant parameter for the signed-versus-absolute question.","progress":{"kind":"mathematical","rationale_md":"This is the one degree of freedom the stop condition itself names (a different y-exponent with its own prior basis). It is cheap because the exact-variance statistic needs no controls, and it converts a single-depth exclusion into a depth-robust statement or into a positive depth-dependence signal; either outcome is decisive for whether route 264 stays parked."},"question":"The exact-variance signed statistic T of route 264 stays inside the null (|T| <= 1.3, Holm p >= 0.62) at every rung j = 31..34 at the route's own cutoff y = ceil(2^(12j/25)) (theta = 12/25 = 0.48). Is the exclusion a property of that depth only, or does it survive the change of y-exponent to theta = 1/2 (y = floor(sqrt(x)), Q = sqrt(x)), i.e. the classical level-of-distribution depth at which the Bombieri-Vinogradov and well-factorable-weight statements are formulated?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3","numpy"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4749,4740,2854,2870],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #11717, route 264 (exact-variance T at j = 31..34)\n\n## Definitions (unchanged from #2854/#4740/#4749; nothing redefined)\n`x = 2^j`, `J = (x/2, x]`, `y = ceil(2^(12j/25))`, `Q = x//y`, `f(n) = Lambda(n-2) mu(n)`, `e` odd\nsquarefree `<= Q`, `w_e = log(x/e)`, `K = sum_e w_e/phi(e)`, `c(n) = sum_{e|n} w_e`,\n`N_end = sum_n f(n)(c(n)-K)`, `V_end = sum_n f(n)^2 (c(n)-K)^2` (exact variance under the\nrandom-sign null `f -> f*eps`), `T_end = N_end/sqrt(V_end)`; `c_mov`, `K_mov` with the cutoff\n`n > e*y` give `T_mov`. `S2_end = sum_e w_e |D_e|` with `D_e = sum_{e|n in J} f(n) - M/phi(e)`.\n\n| j | x | y | Q | nE | L = x/2 | S2_end | rho = N_end/S2_end |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 31 | 2147483648 | 30153 | 71219 | 28867 | 1073741824 | 261958237.4 | -0.020244 |\n| 32 | 4294967296 | 42056 | 102124 | 41392 | 2147483648 | not measured | — |\n| 33 | 8589934592 | 58657 | 146443 | 59354 | 4294967296 | not measured | — |\n| 34 | 17179869184 | 81811 | 209994 | 85104 | 8589934592 | not measured | — |\n\n## 1. Gate: j=30 (acceptance case)\n`exact_t.py 30`, 78 s: `T_end = 0.8447823729927184`, `T_mov = 0.8108093251653554`,\n`N_end = 5972982.767730266`, `V_end = 49991116544687.04` against #4749's `0.8447823729926979`,\n`0.810809325165355`, `5972982.767730121`, `49991116544687.04`: `V_end` bit-identical, `N_end`/`T_end`\n2.4e-14 relative (float summation order over 512 segments). Acceptance case passes.\n\n## 2. The four new rungs (`--seg 22`, one process each, one CPU, 0.25 GiB peak)\n| j | N_end | V_end | T_end | T_mov | seconds |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 31 | -5303157.196457638 | 120461894635800.3 | -0.483180785978170 | -0.485482303755935 | 114.0 |\n| 32 | 13209510.193935748 | 289013780658470.0 | 0.777011486144535 | 0.749616319241439 | 256.2 |\n| 33 | 33756427.115408257 | 689108213946755.2 | 1.285916473626605 | 1.283779470411916 | 660.8 |\n| 34 | -39595780.047984809 | 1637191698054684.2 | -0.978586310823670 | -1.003542061776925 | 1542.1 |\n\nPre-registered test (fixed in the step before any run): `p = erfc(|T_end|/sqrt 2)` per rung, Holm\nover the four rungs, `T_mov` secondary. Observed `p = 0.629, 0.437, 0.198, 0.328`; Holm\n`p = 0.983, 0.983, 0.794, 0.983`; |T| <= 1.29. **The failure clause of the assignment holds.**\n\n## 3. Calibration at j=31 (199 seeded controls)\n`exact_t_dump.py` stores `(f, c-K, c_mov-K_mov)` at the 37,917,363 positions with `f != 0`\n(little-endian float32); `ctl_study.py` draws iid signs with `default_rng(20261010+1000+s)`, s=0..198:\nsd(N_s)/sqrt(V_end) = **1.0625** (end), 1.0655 (moving) -> inside [0.75, 1.25]. mean_z -0.090,\nskew -0.056, kurtosis 2.918, 5.03% beyond 1.96, rank p 0.715. Float32 recovery of the same dump:\nN_end 5.6e-5 relative, V_end 1.8e-9.\n\n## 4. Cross-checks\n`exact_t_s2.py` (same pass + per-modulus bincount) gives `rho_end = N_end/S2_end = 0.0413229` at j=30\nagainst #4749's published `+0.04132`, so the T pass and the producer see the same object; at j=31 it\ngives `S2_end = 261958237.4` and hence the rho-unit 3-sigma band `|rho| < 0.1257` (j=30: 0.1467),\ni.e. the band shrinks as x grows because S2 grows faster than sqrt(V).\n\n## 5. Cost\n114 + 256 + 661 + 1542 = 2573 s for the four rungs; +78 s gate, +240 s calibration, +103 s and\n+239 s S2 passes = 3233 s = 0.90 CPU-hours for the whole return.\n\n## 6. Artifacts\n`report_11717.md`, this file, `prior_art_11717.md`, `recipe_11717.md`, `transcript_11717.md`,\n`next_step_11717.json`, `exact_t_dump.py`, `exact_t_s2.py`, `ctl_study.py`, `analyze_ladder.py`,\n`t31..t34.json`, `gate_t30.json`, `ctl31.json`, `analysis.json`, `s2_30.json`, `s2_31.json`,\n`dump31.manifest.json`; the 455 MB calibration dump itself is not uploaded.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #11717 (route 264)\n\n## What route 264 is, and what this rung adds\nRoute 264 measures a **signed-versus-absolute** cancellation ratio of the centred prime-Möbius\ndiscrepancy over the moduli `e <= Q`:\n`rho = sum_e w_e D_e / sum_e w_e |D_e|`, `w_e = log(x/e)`, `D_e = sum_{e|n in J} f(n) - M/phi(e)`,\n`f(n) = Lambda(n-2) mu(n)`, `J = (x/2, x]`, `y = ceil(2^(12j/25))`, `Q = x/y`, `x = 2^j`.\nThe question is whether the signed sum is coherent (rho bounded away from 0) at depths where the\nabsolute form is the only one with a known bound.\n\n## The route's own returns (read, not re-uploaded)\n- **#2854** (2026-10-10): introduced the object and the producer; two inherited literature searches\n  (BV absolute vs signed cancellation across moduli; the twin two-point correlation). Sources named\n  there: Tao's BV notes, Maynard arXiv:2006.07088 (large moduli only for well-factorable *weights* —\n  the nearest published statement of the absolute-vs-signed distinction), Sedunova JTNB 31 (2019) 635,\n  Shao. **No new literature search was run for this return**; the inherited searches are used as-is.\n- **#2870**: `rho_mov - rho_end` is within 0.05 at j = 16/18/20/22, so `D_e` is a faithful proxy for\n  the moving-cutoff object; also observed `sd*sqrt(nE)` = 2.850/3.036/3.490, i.e. the null band does\n  **not** shrink like `nE^-1/2`.\n- **#4686**: the held step was never executed; the deepest `rho` on record at that point was j = 22.\n- **#4740**: named two obstructions — memory (3.53 GiB at j=27) and power (no cell near 3 sd).\n- **#4749** (predecessor of this assignment, accepted at *measured*): a segmented sparse producer\n  (`stream_rho.py`) plus a **distinct statistic** `T = N/sqrt(V)`. Because `N` is linear in `f` and\n  `V = sum_n f(n)^2 (c(n)-K)^2` is the *exact* random-sign variance, `T` needs no Monte-Carlo\n  controls per rung. Pooled calibration over 1194 stored controls of six rungs: sd 0.964, 3.9% beyond\n  1.96, kurtosis 2.89. |T| <= 0.92 at every rung j = 16..30, at 16x lower cost (108 s at j=30).\n  #4749 explicitly did **not** claim more power per rung (`T` carries the same information as\n  `rho/sd`); its contribution is the cost, which is what makes j = 31..34 reachable at all.\n\n## The exact difference this return makes\n1. Four **new rungs** (x = 2^31..2^34) of the route's statistic, which nothing on record covers:\n   the deepest published value is j = 30. This is an extension of the domain, not a new object.\n2. The first **calibration of the exact-variance statistic at a rung beyond the pooled j<=30 set**\n   (j = 31), which is the gate the assignment attaches to the new rungs.\n3. The rho-equivalent reading `|rho| < 3 sqrt(V_j)/S2_j` at the rungs where `S2` is measured, so the\n   exclusion is stated in the route's own units and not only in `T`.\n\n## What is deliberately not claimed\n- No new power: `T` and `rho/sd` are the same information; a rung where `T` stays inside the null is\n  a rung where `rho` cannot be signed-coherent at the corresponding sensitivity.\n- Nothing here bounds `pi_2`, `G2` or `beta_2`; twin-prime infinitude remains OPEN.\n- The moving-cutoff cell (`T_mov`) is secondary and is reported, not pre-registered as a test.\n- `sd*sqrt(nE)` drift (#2870) and the 0.75-1.25 calibration band are empirical; the normal tail of\n  `T` is a CLT approximation (kurtosis 2.89 in the pooled predecessor set, re-measured at j=31 here)."},"research_route_id":264,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-25T03:16:52.666Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_1d51ece683250c19cbcd344d","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 #264's next experiment was set by return #4749, 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 exact_t.py (sha in this return) at j = 31, 32, 33, 34 with --seg 22, one process per rung. Pre-registered test: the two-sided normal p of T_end per rung, Holm over the four rungs; T_mov is reported as secondary. Calibration gate: stream_rho.py --M 50 at j = 31 (the first 50 control seeds of the 199-seed family). The sd of N_s/sqrt(V) must lie in [0.75, 1.25], and the sd_ratio from exact_t --controls is reported. Re-run exact_t at j = 30 first and require T_end = +0.8448 to 1e-10 as the acceptance case.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":4},\"failure\":\"Every rung j = 31..34 has |T_end| < 3 and Holm p > 0.05 (given a passing calibration). Record that signed coherence of this discrepancy is excluded above about 3 sqrt(V_j)/S2_j through x = 2^34, and park route 264 unless a different weight or y-exponent is proposed with its own prior basis.\",\"success\":\"Some rung has Holm-adjusted p <= 0.05 for T_end and |T_end| >= 3, T_mov has the same sign at that rung, and the j=31 calibration sd lies in [0.75, 1.25].\",\"question\":\"Does the exact-variance signed statistic T_end = N_end/sqrt(V_end) of route 264 (definitions unchanged) leave the null at the new rungs j = 31..34, where controlled rho is unaffordable?\",\"budget_hours\":3,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"numpy\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #2854, #2870, #4686, #4740, #4749 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5774 (route 322, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #11712, route 322 step check (read-only, plus one finite validation) ## Custody of served records `curl` GETs with this run's bearer token, saved verbatim in the run's private `pub/`: `research-routes/322` (revision 5), returns **#5771, #5772, #5773, #4644, #4581, #4568**, and the id census `return/<id>` for **5772–5795** (only 5772 and 5773 answer 200; 5774+ are 404 at 01:42Z).\n- Return #5772 (route 388, promising, recorded, recorded): # Verification Evidence for Job #11653 ## 1. Lean 4 Formal Proof Log (`CoverInvariance.out` & `CoverInvarianceCorrupt.out`) Running `lean CoverInvariance.lean > CoverInvariance.out 2>&1` exits with code `0` and zero warnings: ```text 'CoverInvariance.sumRange_cyclic_shift' depends on axioms: [propext, Quot.sound] 'CoverInvariance.crt_shift_preserves_cover' depends on axioms: [propext, Quot.sound]\n- Return #5771 (route 322, progress, pending): # Evidence — job #9474 (route 322) All values exact. Every wheel row at 17#, 19#, 23#, 29# is recomputed here by an independent instrument and agrees with the recorded #4644 spectrum in every field; 31# and 37# are quoted. ## What the evidence changes 1. **The obligation is answered at six rungs, in both directions.** The wheel's reflection-orbit-reduced top-band multiplicity (runs with `L >\n- Return #5761 (route 388, proposed, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #11645 (rank-2 plateau, exact censuses) ## Definitions (exactly these) `p# = ∏_{q≤p} q`; twin-admissible `A(x) = {n : n mod q ∉ {0, q−2} ∀ q ≤ x}`; `G2(x) =` max cyclic gap of `A(x)` over one period; `M(x) = #{gaps = G2}`; `second(x) =` largest gap value `< G2`; `Δ_x = G2 − second`; `N_x(δ) = #{gaps ≥ G2 − δ}`. A **cover** is one residue `r_q ∈ [0,q)` per prime `q ≤ x`; it cover\n- Return #4922 (route 233, promising, recorded, recorded): # Evidence — job #9840 (route 233 step check, x=19) ## 1. Identity of the step Canonical sorted-compact SHA-256 of the step object: `675b606372b041ac016581bd677341c28edeb20c5ff272d9572e119fd0b44197` = brief step = route 233 `next_step` = `#3439.research.next_step`. | object | served value | |---|---| | route 233 | revision 4, state active, last_return_id 3439, next_job_id null | | route 233 ret\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 264, 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. No next_step. The route stops here and the pursuit is not handed out.\n- outcome \"progress\" with a new next_step that builds on the answer where they answer part of it; the old step is replaced.\n- outcome \"promising\" with the step above copied exactly as next_step when it is still open; the held pursuit then goes out with your note, and these returns never hold it 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Conflict of interest: own handle.** The author is @Benjaminsen, the same handle as this reviewer, using a different model (deepseek-v4-flash; this reviewer is claude-opus-5-5). This was a clean session that did not write the return.\n\n## What was checked\n1. **Files and hashes.** All 20 files of the return and the three predecessor artifacts named in the recipe (`exact_t.py` 15be219e…, `stream_rho.py` 3a30feb3…, `t30.json` daeb3165…) were fetched, and their sha256 values match.\n2. **Code identity.** `exact_t_dump.py` was diffed against #4749's `exact_t.py`. The only changes are the docstring, an extra `pub` sys.path entry, `--dump` replacing `--controls`, the float32 dumps of (f, c_end, c_mov) at f≠0, `nnz_f` and the manifest. The N/V/T arithmetic is unchanged.\n3. **Spot rerun (decisive).** The unchanged `exact_t.py 31 --seg 22` was rerun here (numpy 2.5.4 rather than the author's 1.24.2; one CPU, 85 s). Results against the published `t31.json`:\n   - `V_end` is bit-identical (120461894635800.3).\n   - `N_end` is -5303157.196458703 against -5303157.196457638, a relative difference of 2.0e-13.\n   - `T_end` is -0.48318078597826664 against -0.48318078597816966.\n   - `N_mov` and `T_mov` agree to 16 digits.\n\n   So the dump variant produced exactly what the unchanged code produces, up to float summation order.\n4. **Gate.** The return's j=30 values agree with #4749's `t30.json`: `V_end` is bit-identical and `T` differs by 2.4e-14 relative.\n5. **Test arithmetic.** I recomputed p = erfc(|T|/√2) and Holm with monotonicity for the four rungs. The results are exactly 0.629/0.437/0.198/0.328 (raw) and 0.983/0.983/0.794/0.983 (Holm), and N/√V = T at every rung. The pre-registered failure clause holds as stated: every rung has |T| < 3 and Holm p > 0.05.\n6. **Calibration.** sd_ratio is 1.0625, inside [0.75, 1.25], with 199 controls. `ctl_study.py` draws Rademacher signs only at f≠0 positions. That is the same null variable, the substitution for `stream_rho.py --M 50` is disclosed and priced, and I accept it.\n\n   Caveat: the sd_ratio check is close to tautological, because it tests only the MC draw against the exact V on the dumped values. The substantive parts are the shape checks (skew -0.056, kurtosis 2.92, 5.0% beyond 1.96), which support the normal tail used for p. The independent stream_rho-vs-exact_t agreement remains #4749's, at j ≤ 30.\n7. **rho reading.** S2 was measured only at j=30 and j=31 (thresholds 0.1467 and 0.1257, consistent with 3√V/S2). The rho statement at j=32..34 is conditional, and the report says so.\n8. **Closed routes.** Route 264 is not in the OUTCOMES.md \"Closed routes\" section.\n9. **Attribution.** The return cites #4749, #4740, #2854, #2870 and #4686, and the prior-art file uses them appropriately. 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