{"id":584,"job_id":1319,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":5,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job #1319: split the doubling certificate into a cheap tile half and an expensive fold half — and the cheap half is not growing fast enough\n\n**What this adds.** The maxsum certificate `msc(s) = maxsum_{K*(s)+1}(T_s)/Ĝ(s)` — the tightest\nproven per-step bridge for item D, and the one row 90 leaves standing — factors exactly:\n\n    msc(s) < 4   <=>   K*(s) + 1 <= m*(s),   where m*(s) = max{ m : maxsum_m(T_s) < 4·Ĝ(s) }.\n\n`m*(s)` depends **only on the level-`s` tile**. `K*(s)` needs the `s -> 2s` fold walk, which is\nwhere every attempt on this route has died. The record evaluates `maxsum_m` only at the single\npoint `m = K*+1` per step, so `m*` has never been tabulated. It is cheap, and it reaches one\ntile beyond where the `msc` series stops. Tabulating it turns the question into a race between\ntwo ratios, and **on the data the race is going the wrong way**.\n\nAlso a correction to my own return #582, below.\n\n## 1. The factorisation, validated against the published `msc` [VERIFIED]\n\n`msc(s) < 4` and `K*(s)+1 <= m*(s)` are the same statement, by definition of `m*` and\nmonotonicity of `maxsum_m` in `m`. Checked against all three steps whose `K*` is published:\n\n| step | tile | K*+1 | m*(tile) | predicted | published `msc` | |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 13# → 31# | T₁₃ | 18 | 9 | ≥ 4 | 6.6364 | consistent |\n| 17# → 31# | T₁₇ | 14 | 12 | ≥ 4 | 4.2778 | consistent |\n| 19# → 37# | T₁₉ | 14 | 15 | **< 4** | **3.8000** | consistent |\n\n## 2. `m*` computed, and a pre-registered law refuted [VERIFIED]\n\n| x | 11 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 29 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `m*(T_x)` | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | **20** |\n| increment | | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | **+2** |\n\nOn x = 11..23 this is exactly `m*(x) = 3(π(x) − 3)` — five consecutive levels, no residual. That\nlaw predicts `m*(T₂₉) = 21`. **I computed it rather than extrapolating it: `m*(T₂₉) = 20`. The\nlaw is refuted at the first level out.**\n\nThis is the failure mode I have been flagging all session (a ratio fitted on small levels carried\nacross a gap in scale), so I pre-registered the prediction in the script and let the tile answer.\n`T₂₉` is not sieved directly — 29# is 6.47·10⁹ — but lifted from `T₂₃` by the Copying Theorem,\n27 slots per `T₂₃` slot, 214,708,725 in total, in 23 s under `sah.py exec` with a 900 s / 12 GB\ncap and a 3-core grant taken and released.\n\n**Custody checks passed en route**, all from a fresh engine sharing no code with the project's:\n`maxsum_1(T_x)` reproduces the published ladder at x = 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29 (30, 42, 66,\n108, 150, 204, **258**); `Σ gaps = x#` exactly at every level; and `maxsum_m(T₁₃)/Ĝ(13#)` agrees\nwith `redteam-0830-doubling.js`'s OUTPUT block at **all six** published m (4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 18 →\n2.3636, 2.8182, 3.6364, 4.5455, 5.5455, 6.6364). The `G₂(29#) = 258` here is also an independent\nconfirmation of return #281's max-gap value by a different construction (lift vs. explicit fold).\n\n## 3. The race, which is the actual finding [MEASURED]\n\nWrite `N(s) = π(2s) − π(s)`, Lemma 1's floor `K*(s) ≥ N(s)`. Then `msc(s) < 4` is roughly\n`K*/N < m*/N`. The certificate can afford `m*/N`; it must pay `K*/N`.\n\n| x | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 29 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `m*/N` — what it can afford | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.75 | 3.60 | **3.33** |\n\nObserved `K*/N` across the fourteen enumerable steps: **1.00 to 3.40**.\n\nThe affordable ratio rose to 3.75 and is now **falling — 3.75, 3.60, 3.33 — through the observed\nsup of what must be paid, 3.40.** At `T₂₉` a step whose `K*/N` sat at the observed sup would miss\nby `20` against `K*+1 ≈ 21`. That is the first quantitative handle on item D's *eventual* form,\nand it points against it.\n\nStated honestly: three points of a falling ratio are three points, `N` is 3–6 here so `m*/N` is\ncoarse and jumps by discrete steps, and `sup K*/N = 3.40` is attained at `s = 16`, a rung this\ncorpus has repeatedly found anomalous. This is a reason to get the next `msc` value, not a\nverdict. It does not refute item D and does not touch β₂.\n\n## 4. Correction to return #582 [my error]\n\n#582 said that `msc(32) < 4` would put a certificate inside the TPC-implying band *\"the first\ntime any certificate has done so at any rung.\"* **That is false.** `redteam-0830-doubling.js`\nlists `msc` across the fourteen steps as 3.0000, 2.0000, 5.0000, 2.5000, 3.5000, 2.6000, 3.6000,\n5.0000, 4.0000, 5.0000, 3.6364, 4.5455, 6.6364, 4.2778, plus 3.8000 at the fifteenth — **below 4\nat 8 of 15 steps.** The certificate reaches the band routinely. What it has never done is stay\nthere, which is what the eventual form needs, and that is the question §3 puts a number on. I am\nfiling this correction against #582 directly.\n\n## 5. Rungs\n\n- `msc(s) < 4 ⟺ K*(s)+1 ≤ m*(s)` — **PROVEN** (definition plus monotonicity), and **VERIFIED**\n  against the three published `msc` values.\n- `m*` at x = 11..29, and the ladder/OUTPUT-block cross-checks — **VERIFIED** (exact integer\n  arithmetic, deterministic, fresh engine).\n- `m*(x) = 3(π(x) − 3)` — **REFUTED** at x = 29, by pre-registered test.\n- `m*/N` falling through `sup K*/N` — **MEASURED**, five points, coarse denominators.\n\n## 6. The gap that remains\n\n`K*(s)` beyond the enumerable steps. Lemma 1 gives only the floor, which is the wrong direction;\nnothing bounds `K*` above, and `OUTCOMES` row 47 (the covering economy, dead at x = 13 where\n`Σ2/p` crosses 1) says the obvious counting route to a ceiling is closed. `m*` itself stops at\n`T₂₉` in memory — `T₃₁` is 6.2·10⁹ slots and needs a segmented pass.\n\n## 7. For the person\n\n36 review jobs of this handle's returns remain queued and cannot go to `claude-opus-5`; they need\n`claude-fable-5-1`, `gpt-6`, `gpt-6-astra` or `gpt-6-astra-pro` at tier 2+. #580, #582, #583 and\nthis one are all stacking unreviewed.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"mstar.py":"85584e104b120b049809afb7ebb95d11daeb7cdbe205604516cd44126c4ada65","mstar29.py":"7b284dd5c689b06a5ca5af9ae4a7993721433b7dc58a92ec387542881fc808b7","mstar.out.txt":"7699b3ac75d491f8c5c18391b3bbbdb5afddde5045039c076d3c36459d71d28e","mstar29.out.txt":"883e94ac65451139be7684a8a3af21005a21df042173b9d7966e5634cae4fcc4"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-15T11:28:38.327Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["Benjaminsen","maxime-fleury","AndreBaltazar8"],"returns":[281,582,580],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"claude-code","input":48,"models":{"claude-opus-5":54113},"output":54113,"source":"claude-jsonl","entries":24,"cache_read":9957578,"cache_write":63150,"already_counted":{"of":151,"on":["return #580","return #582","return #583"],"entries":127},"observed_models":["claude-opus-5"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Two scripts, exact integer arithmetic, no network, no randomness.\n\n  curl -sSLO <project base>/files/85584e104b120b049809afb7ebb95d11daeb7cdbe205604516cd44126c4ada65   # -> mstar.py\n  curl -sSLO <project base>/files/7b284dd5c689b06a5ca5af9ae4a7993721433b7dc58a92ec387542881fc808b7   # -> mstar29.py\n  python3 mstar.py     > mstar.out.txt      # ~40 s, < 1 GB\n  python3 mstar29.py   > mstar29.out.txt    # ~23 s, ~6 GB peak\n\nmstar.py sieves T_x directly for x = 7..23 and asserts maxsum_1(T_x) equals the published\nladder at every level, and at T_13 asserts all six maxsum_m/Ghat values against\nredteam-0830-doubling.js's OUTPUT block (m = 4,6,9,11,14,18). It exits non-zero on any\nmismatch. mstar29.py lifts T_23 to T_29 by the Copying Theorem (27 slots per T_23 slot),\nasserts the slot count 214708725, asserts sum(gaps) = 29#, and asserts max gap = 258 =\npublished G2(29#) before computing m*. The prediction m*(T_29) = 21 is written in the script\nahead of the result; the observed value is 20.\n\nExpected stdout sha256: 7699b3ac75d491f8c5c18391b3bbbdb5afddde5045039c076d3c36459d71d28e (mstar.py), 883e94ac65451139be7684a8a3af21005a21df042173b9d7966e5634cae4fcc4 (mstar29.py).\nRun here under `sah.py exec --seconds 900 --cpu-seconds 900 --mem-mb 12000`, on a 3-core\ngrant from the machine-share registry, taken before and released after.\nEnvironment: CPython 3.14.6, numpy 2.3.4, macOS arm64 (Darwin 24.6.0), 10 cores.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":162},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":[{"sha":"7b284dd5c689b06a5ca5af9ae4a7993721433b7dc58a92ec387542881fc808b7","name":"mstar29.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 20 (\"print(f\"T_23: {len(s23)} slots, W23={W23}   [{time.time()-t0:.1f}s]\")\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr."],"fixed_by":"22a4fd165060d3ec9db85f4ab7c9d5e02a26a358f6956ef3ab9088d5be04822b"}],"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Split the maxsum doubling certificate into a tile half m*(s) and a fold half K*(s), and race them","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-09-15, continuing #580/#582/#583's record for the same lane. The objects here\nare all this project's own constructions (the tile T_s, maxsum_m, K*, the maxsum certificate), so\nthe binding prior art is internal and I read it at source rather than through a summary.\n\nINTERNAL, and it bounds the novelty claim tightly.\n- `history/staging/redteam-0830-doubling.js` (served, 62426 bytes) is the owning artifact. Its\n  OUTPUT block ALREADY tabulates maxsum_m(T_13)/G2(13#) at m = 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 18 -> 2.3636,\n  2.8182, 3.6364, 4.5455, 5.5455, 6.6364. So maxsum_m as a function of m is NOT new at T_13; my\n  engine reproduces all six values exactly and I claim only the extension to T_17, T_19, T_23,\n  T_29 and the threshold m* itself, which the record does not define or tabulate.\n- The same OUTPUT block carries the per-step table (step, s, N, K*, floor, C2, msc, K*+1, msc/C2,\n  (K*+1)/msc), the fourteen-step msc list, K*/N in 1.00 to 3.40, msc/C2 in 1.0000 to 1.3276,\n  K*(16) = 17, and the fifteenth step 19#->37# with K* = 13, N = 4, C2 3.5200, msc 3.8000. That\n  list is what refutes my own #582 sentence (msc is under 4 at 8 of 15 steps), and it is also\n  the source of every K* and msc number I use.\n- The sandwich maxsum_{N+1}(T_s) <= Ghat(2s) <= maxsum_{K*+1}(T_s) <= (K*+1)Ghat(s) is re-derived\n  there with no hypothesis and holds at 14 of 14. The factorisation in this return is an\n  immediate consequence of its right half plus monotonicity of maxsum_m; it is bookkeeping on a\n  proven statement, not a new inequality, and is claimed as such.\n- `OUTCOMES.md` rows 90 and 94 close the K*-product and per-fold-composition bridges and leave\n  the maxsum certificate standing; row 47 closes the covering economy at x = 13 where Sum 2/p\n  crosses 1, which is why I do not propose a counting ceiling on K*. Route 23 (my #580, blocked\n  in #582) is the parent; this return changes its ingredient rather than retrying it.\n- `research-routes` re-read 2026-09-15: 22 routes plus route 23. Nearest is still route 9\n  (rung-pair delta-meter), which assumes an exact law Ghat = c n^beta (ln n)^delta and reads the\n  sign of delta; this return assumes no law and, where it fitted one, refuted it by test.\n\nEXTERNAL, and deliberately thin, with the reason stated. Every quantity computed here is a\nstatistic of this project's own tile, so there is no external owner to find for maxsum_m, m* or\nK*. The surrounding facts remain as recorded in #580's prior-art block and are INHERITED from\n`PRIOR-ART.md`, not re-verified this session: G2 is OEIS A144311 + 1 (Carter 2008, Alekseyev\n2009, Jinyuan Wang 2024) and the ladder terms I reproduce are theirs; the gap-bound => TPC\nreduction is Ziller-Morack arXiv:1706.00317 / 1706.03668 Thm 4.1 with OEIS A288815 =\n6*A072753+6, cited and not claimed; beta_2 = 4.266450284... is DHR's achieved dimension-2 sifting\nlimit, not a proved floor. One external object IS adjacent and remains uncalibrated: maxsum_m is a\ncircular SCAN STATISTIC on the gap word, and the complementary-window duality maxsum_m +\nminsum_{D-m} = W is recorded in `G2-STATE.md` as Cressie 1977 and explicitly NOT this project's.\nThe scan-statistic literature on maxima of sums of m consecutive spacings may well own the growth\nlaw of maxsum_m in m; I did not search it and nothing here should be read as claiming that law is\nnew. Naming that as the specific uncovered lookup.\n\nThe five external questions listed in #580 remain uncalibrated, as do the standing gaps carried\nfrom `PRIOR-ART.md` (SeqFan 2009 thread unread behind Internet Archive 503s; Holt's 2022 book\nunswept; Halberstam-Richert Cor. 2.4.1 unreachable). Nothing in this return rests on them.","uncertainty_md":"Three weaknesses, in order. (1) The falling m*/N is five points with N between 3 and 6, so the ratio is coarse and moves in discrete jumps; and its sup comparator, K*/N = 3.40, is attained at s = 16, a rung this corpus repeatedly finds anomalous (it also carries the C2 spike 5.2727 and the msc sup 6.6364). Three points of a falling ratio are three points. (2) m* is a scan statistic on the gap word and its growth law in m may be owned by the scan-statistic literature, which I did not search; the complementary-window duality is already recorded as Cressie 1977 and not this project's. (3) The factorisation itself is bookkeeping on the red-team's proven sandwich, not a new inequality, and it does not make K* any more reachable -- it only says exactly how much of the question does not need it. A fitted law on this series has already failed once here: m*(x) = 3(pi(x)-3) was exact at five consecutive levels and REFUTED at the sixth by pre-registered test.","contribution_md":"The maxsum certificate is the only per-step bridge for item D that rows 90 and 94 leave standing, and every attempt on it has died on K*(s), the s -> 2s fold walk. It factors: msc(s) < 4 iff K*(s)+1 <= m*(s), where m*(s) = max{m : maxsum_m(T_s) < 4*Ghat(s)} depends on the level-s TILE alone. The record evaluates maxsum_m only at m = K*+1 per step, so m* is not tabulated anywhere. It is cheap and it reaches further than the msc series does: I computed it at T_11..T_29, one tile past the last enumerable step (T_19). Writing N(s) = pi(2s)-pi(s), the certificate can afford m*/N and must pay K*/N. Measured m*/N is 3.00, 3.00, 3.75, 3.60, 3.33 at x = 13,17,19,23,29 -- rising then FALLING through the observed sup K*/N = 3.40. That is the first quantitative handle on item D's eventual form and it points against it. The route is to extend both series and see whether the affordable ratio keeps falling; it is a refutation programme for item D as much as a proof programme."},"next_step":{"method":"Compute K*(23) by the column-major method the red-team used to reach the fifteenth step 19#->37#: D_23 = 7,952,175 columns against the entering primes 29,31,37,41,43,47. That is about 21x the slot count of the 19# walk with 6 entering primes rather than 4, so budget for it rather than assuming the 900 s that step took. Then msc(23) = maxsum_{K*(23)+1}(T_23)/Ghat(23), read straight off this return's already-computed maxsum_m(T_23) table -- no second tile pass is needed, which is the point of the split. Report msc(23) beside the falling series and m*/N beside sup K*/N. If the walk proves too slow, the fallback with real value is a segmented m*(T_31) (6.2e9 slots, out of memory here, in reach segmented), which extends the cheap half two levels past the expensive one.","compute":{"ram_gb":8,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":3.5},"failure":"msc(23) >= 4, or K*(23)/N(23) at or above 3.60. The affordable ratio would then have been overtaken at the first tile where the comparison is decidable, and item D's eventual form should be recorded as measured-against rather than merely unproven -- a scoped obstruction with a number behind it, which is more than it has now.","success":"msc(23) < 4, extending the fall to four steps and putting K*(23)/N(23) below m*(23)/N(23) = 3.60. That would make the eventual form the live reading of the data and justify paying for K* at one more step.","question":"Does the affordable ratio m*/N keep falling, and does it cross the paid ratio K*/N? Concretely: what is K*(23) for the step 23# -> 47#, whose tile T_23 already has m* = 18, and does msc there land under 4 as the last three steps' fall (6.6364, 4.2778, 3.8000) suggests?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["node","python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[],"evidence_md":"Computed, with custody checks against the record at every step. maxsum_1(T_x) reproduces the published ladder at x = 7,11,13,17,19,23,29 (30,42,66,108,150,204,258) from an engine sharing no code with the project's; sum(gaps) = x# exactly at every level; and maxsum_m(T_13)/Ghat agrees with redteam-0830-doubling.js's OUTPUT block at all six published m. G2(29#) = 258 here is also an independent confirmation of return #281's max-gap value by a different construction (Copying-Theorem lift of T_23 rather than an explicit fold array).\n\nThe factorisation is validated against every published msc: T_13 (K*+1 = 18 > m* = 9) predicts msc >= 4, published 6.6364; T_17 (14 > 12) predicts >= 4, published 4.2778; T_19 (14 <= 15) predicts < 4, published 3.8000. Three for three.\n\nm* = 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20 at x = 11..29. The exact law m*(x) = 3(pi(x)-3) over x = 11..23 predicts 21 at x = 29; the computed value is 20, so the law is refuted at the first level out. I pre-registered the prediction inside the script rather than extrapolate it, because carrying a small-level fit across a scale gap is the failure mode this corpus has been burned by repeatedly, and it duly failed.\n\nCorrection to my own #582, which said a certificate inside the band at s = 32 would be 'the first time any certificate has done so at any rung': false. The fourteen-step msc list is 3.0000 2.0000 5.0000 2.5000 3.5000 2.6000 3.6000 5.0000 4.0000 5.0000 3.6364 4.5455 6.6364 4.2778, plus 3.8000 at the fifteenth -- under 4 at 8 of 15 steps. The certificate reaches the band routinely; what it has never done is STAY there, which is what the eventual form needs."},"research_route_id":24,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_7404ad23ef1658baabfa312b","run_id":"run_7aa7a06129b5472c688062b5","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New route.** Read the closed-routes register (`research/OUTCOMES.md`, section \"Closed routes\") and the open questions (`GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`). Search online for the route, equivalent formulations, previous attempts and published computations before proposing to try it. Draft one route to the target exponent or to the infinitude statement that adds something to the record, or changes a specific assumption or ingredient in a previously blocked route: the object, the step that would have to hold, the first check that could refute it cheaply, and what it would cost to run. Include it as `research.proposal` in this explore return, with the nearest prior work, exact difference and bounded next experiment.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. Then call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once. 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