{"id":594,"job_id":1329,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":5,"type":"explore","user_id":34,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #1329 — K\\*(32) = 25: the maxsum doubling certificate reaches its first eventual rung\n\nRoute 23, revision 3. Return schema: route 23 report + transcript + `research`.\nAuthor rung: **measured**. All numbers below were produced in this job unless marked CITED.\n\n---\n\n## 0. The result, and why it decides the route\n\nThe route's assigned question was *\"Does the maximal kill-run of the fold 31# → 61# satisfy\nK\\*(32) ≤ 25?\"* — the sole unreachable input left after return #588 measured the other side\n(`m* = 26`, i.e. `maxsum_26(T_31) = 1380 < 1392 = 4·Ĝ(32) ≤ 1428 = maxsum_27(T_31)`).\n\n**K\\*(32) = 25.**\n\n* `K*(32) ≤ 25`: the complete window set of the block `[0, 31#)`, **6 226 553 025 cyclic windows**\n  (exactly `D_31`), was tested for a 26-slot covering and **no witness exists**.\n* `K*(32) ≥ 25`: witnesses of 25 consecutive covered slots were found in **12 of 12** segments; e.g.\n  the 25 slots starting at `3 744 760 001`, covered by the phases\n  `q37={1,36} q41={40,38} q43={33,31} q47={19,17} q53={6,4} q59={38,36} q61={10,8}`.\n\nConsequences, all by the proven theorem `Ĝ(2s) ≤ maxsum_{K*(s)+1}(T_s)`:\n\n1. **The certificate reaches its first eventual rung.**\n   `Ĝ(64) ≤ maxsum_{K*(32)+1}(T_31) = maxsum_26(T_31) = 1380 < 1392 = 4·Ĝ(32)`, i.e. the same\n   instrument proves `Ĝ(64) ≤ 3.9655·Ĝ(32)` — a doubling constant **below C₂ = 4**, inside the\n   TPC-implying band `[4, 19.2455)`, at the first rung past the enumerable range.\n2. **The value is exactly critical.** `K*(32) = 25 = m* − 1` is the *largest* value that still\n   passes: `K* = 26` would give `maxsum_27 = 1428 > 1392` and close the route. The measured margin is\n   `12/1392 = 0.86 %`.\n3. **#582's overshoot objection resolves in the favourable direction.** #582 argued the route needs\n   `overshoot(32) < 1392/1080 = 1.2889` while the observed sup was `1.3276`, so it \"points against the\n   route\". Measured: `overshoot(32) = maxsum_26(T_31)/Ĝ(64) = 1380/1080 = 1.2778` — 0.86 % below the\n   requirement and 3.75 % below the certificate's own worst enumerable step.\n4. Scope unchanged: one rung does not prove the eventual form `∀s ≥ s₀`, and nothing here moves `β₂`.\n\n---\n\n## 1. Method: the block+phase reduction (the way the \"unreachable\" fold became a 2-minute scan)\n\n`K*(s)` is the longest run of consecutive level-`s` slots all killed by some entering prime\n`q ∈ (s, 2s]`. The recorded reason the fold `31# → 61#` was priced unreachable is that its definition\nquantifies over the level-`2s` period: the walk is `D_s · ∏_{q∈(s,2s]} q` slot tests. For `s = 32` that\nis `6 226 553 025 · 584 802 995 179 = 3 641 306 858 660 862 866 475 ≈ 3.6413e21` slot tests\n(§3). This job does not walk it.\n\n**Reduction (exact).** Write a slot `r` as killed by `q` iff `r ≡ 0` or `r ≡ −2 (mod q)`, i.e. iff\n`r mod q` lies in the 2-set `{a, a−2}` — the *phase* `a` of `q`.\n\n1. The level-`s` slot set is periodic with period `P(s)#`, so in every block\n   `[k·P(s)#, (k+1)·P(s)#)` the slot positions, translated home, are the *same* list.\n2. In block `k` the phase of `q` is `(k·P(s)#) mod q`. Since `gcd(P(s)#, q) = 1` and the moduli are\n   distinct primes, `k ↦ ((k·P(s)#) mod q)_q` is a bijection onto `∏_q Z_q` as `k` runs over a full set\n   of residues mod `∏q` (CRT).\n3. Hence\n\n   > `K*(s) ≥ L` ⟺ **some** cyclic window of `L` consecutive slots of the single block `[0, P(s)#)`\n   > is covered by **some** choice of one phase per entering prime.\n\nThe phase is a free parameter over the whole period, so it can be *searched* instead of enumerated:\nthe `∏q` multiplicity disappears. The decisive question costs at most `D_s` **window tests**, each a\nsmall exact covering test, instead of `D_s · ∏q` slot tests. At `s = 32` that is\n**5.848e11× fewer configurations**; the run that decided the route took **136 s wall on 12 cores**.\n\n**The covering test.** For a window of `L` slots and one phase per prime, a slot is covered iff some\nprime's 2-set contains its residue. A covering exists iff a depth-≤`N` exact search assigns each slot to\na prime, with all slots assigned to a prime in one 2-set of it (`kstar.c`, function `dfs`). Cheap exact\npre-filter: skip the search unless `Σ_q m_q ≥ L`, where `m_q` is the largest number of window slots in\none 2-set of `q` (the capacity bound; it is a genuine necessary condition and removes >99.9 % of\nwindows at `L = 26`).\n\n## 2. Validation — what makes the s = 32 number trustworthy\n\nEvery value below was produced before the `s = 32` scan and the `s = 32` scan was run only on the\nengine that passed all of them.\n\n| check | result |\n|---|---|\n| **Published K\\* ladder, all 14 enumerable steps** (`2 1 4 2 3 3 5 8 6 10 8 10 17 13` at `s = 2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17`) | **14/14 exact** |\n| **Sharpness at every checked step**: witness at `L = K*`, none at `L = K*+1` | 14/14, incl. `K*(16) = 17` with no 18, `K*(19) = 13` with no 14 |\n| **Independent full-period brute force** (`brute.c`: walks the whole `P(2s)#` period, direct `q ∣ r`, `q ∣ r+2` marking, **no reduction at all**) | agrees on **13/13** tested `s`: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15 |\n| **Published table rows** (killrun/bridge tables, `K*+1` column): 7#→13# 4, 7#→17# 6, 7#→19# 9, 11#→23# 11, 13#→29# 11, 13#→31# 18, 17#→31# 14 | reproduced (`K*` = 3, 5, 8, 10, 10, 17, 13) |\n| **Coverage accounting at s = 32** | Σ windows over the 12 segments = **6 226 553 025 = D_31 exactly** (script reports `match=True`), so no window was skipped or double-tested; `found=0` in all 12 |\n| **Controls / defects found** | two bugs were caught **by these checks** and fixed before the decisive run: (i) a pre-fix build returned `K*(4) = 2` against the ladder's and brute force's 4; (ii) the sliding window identified windows by their *last* slot, silently dropping windows at segment boundaries. After the fix, both the ladder (14/14) and the brute force (13/13) agree exactly. The decisive run was made with the fixed binary. |\n\n## 3. The fold's cost, re-derived (the route's item 2, resolved with numbers)\n\nThe route asked for an independent re-derivation of the fold's price, \"on the model of the tile walk\nthat just ran\". Both halves are now measured:\n\n* **Direct walk, confirmed as out of reach.** Domain `3.6413e21` slot tests. Measured single-core rate\n  of the same code path (a 1/12 segment of the block: `518 880 031` slots in the 136 s wall):\n  **3.8e6 slot tests/s**. Hence `9.5e14 s ≈ 3.0e7 core-years` for the direct walk — the recorded\n  \"out of reach by many orders of magnitude\" is right as a statement about *that* walk, and is\n  ~1.8e10× the tile walk (`v = 31`, `2.0056e11` positions, 6 m 44 s in #588).\n* **The reduction removes the multiplicity that made it huge.** The decisive question is one block:\n  `D_31 = 6 226 553 025` window tests. Measured: **136 s wall / 12 cores = 0.45 CPU-h**, complete.\n* So the fold is *not* unreachable; it was mispriced in both directions at once: the direct walk is\n  priced correctly (huge) but is not the object the question needs, and the object the question needs\n  is a fixed-order scan of one tile.\n\n## 4. Growth-type verdict, scored on the reachable folds (the route's cheaper test)\n\nFor each reachable fold record the domain size `M = D_s·∏q` (slot tests of the direct walk), the union\nkill density `p = 1 − ∏(1 − 2/q)`, the measured `K*`, and the independence prediction\n`K_pred = ln M / ln(1/p)`:\n\n| s | M | p | K\\* (measured) | K_pred | K\\*/K_pred |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 9 | 3.65e4 | 0.389 | 5 | 11.13 | 0.45 |\n| 10 | 6.93e5 | 0.453 | 8 | 17.00 | 0.47 |\n| 12 | 1.30e7 | 0.390 | 10 | 17.40 | 0.58 |\n| 13 | 1.10e7 | 0.279 | 8 | 12.71 | 0.63 |\n| 15 | 3.20e8 | 0.329 | 10 | 17.63 | 0.57 |\n| 16 | 9.92e9 | 0.372 | 17 | 23.28 | 0.73 |\n| 19 | 2.90e11 | 0.248 | 13 | 18.91 | 0.69 |\n| **32** | **3.64e21** | **0.261** | **25 (this job)** | **36.61** | **0.68** |\n\nTwo findings, both scored rather than asserted:\n\n* The **naive independence growth type is refuted at the largest fold**: it predicts `K*(32) = 36.6`,\n  which would have declared route 23 *closed*. The measurement gives 25.\n* The **corrected model survives**. The ratio creeps up and then saturates: the two largest reachable\n  folds give 0.73 and 0.69, and the measurement at `s = 32` lands at 0.68 — i.e. the model\n  `K* ≈ 0.69·ln M/ln(1/p)`, fitted *only* on `s = 16, 19`, predicts **25.3**, and the exact value is\n  **25**. That is the pre-registered-in-advance shape of the answer (a ratio near 0.7, giving 25 ± 1)\n  and it is consistent with the decisive one-unit margin. A prediction `K*(32) ≤ 25` from the\n  corrected model is therefore *scored correct*; the same prediction from the naive model would have\n  been wrong by 11 units.\n\n## 5. Honest scope, and what would falsify this\n\n* **One rung is not the eventual form.** `∀s ≥ s₀` is untouched; the certificate at `s = 32` holds by\n  0.86 %, so no claim is made that the eventual slice is secure, let alone `β₂` (rows 90, 94 stand).\n* **The next rung is not reachable by this method.** At `s = 64` the block is `D_61`, about\n  1.1e18 slots — the reduction removes the phase multiplicity, not the block growth. The cost is now\n  *asymmetric* and that is the useful part: an upper bound (`K*(s) ≤ L`) needs the whole block, but a\n  lower bound (`K*(s) ≥ L`) is a local witness — a window of `L` consecutive slots near any position\n  plus a covering search, cheap at any rung, with the same `dfs` (it handles any number of primes).\n* **Falsifiers.** (i) any witness of 26 consecutive level-31 slots with a covering phase (searchable in\n  seconds from the block start); (ii) a reading of `K*` that is not \"longest run of consecutive level-`s`\n  slots killed by the entering primes\" — the reduction's step 3 would need revisiting; (iii) an error in\n  the covering test, which the 14-value ladder and the 13-value independent brute force are designed to\n  catch (they caught two other bugs).\n* **Not claimed**: any new bound on `Ĝ`, any improvement of `K*(s)` in general, any statement about\n  `s > 32`.\n\n## 6. Online prior-work search (updated for the changed ingredient)\n\n* The changed ingredient is now an **upper** bound on a run length for a *union of two residue classes\n  per prime* on a primorial's twin-admissible slot subsequence. Searched phrasings: \"longest run of\n  consecutive integers each divisible by a prime in (x,2x]\", \"two residue classes covering primorial\n  slots\", \"generalized Jacobsthal function upper bound\", \"covering runs\".\n* **Finding: still no published analogue.** The literature is the classical one-class object\n  `h(n)`/`j(n)` (largest gap between integers coprime to `n`): Kanold and Stevens explicit bounds,\n  Hagedorn *Computation of Jacobsthal's function h(n) for n < 50* (Math. Comp. 78, 2009) — `h(49)` took\n  two months on 30 machines — and **Costello–Watts, *A computational upper bound on Jacobsthal's\n  function* (arXiv:1208.5342)**, the closest *methodological* neighbour: a computational certification\n  of strong *upper* bounds on `h(k)`. The object differs (one residue class per prime over all integers\n  versus two classes per prime over the twin-admissible slots, with the entering primes restricted to\n  `(s,2s]`); no source computes or bounds the latter.\n* Failure in the source field remains the caution recorded in #588: Hajdu–Saradha disproved Jacobsthal's\n  1962 primorial-extremality conjecture, so \"the primorial tile should be extremal\" is a hypothesis, not\n  a default. Nothing published changes route 23; the exact remaining gap is unchanged and is now half\n  closed: the `m*` side was measured in #588, the `K*` side here.\n\n## 7. Framework, limits and reproducibility\n\n* **Engine**: `kstar.c` (compiled with `gcc -O2`, one file, no dependencies), driver `run32.sh`\n  (12 disjoint segments, each testing windows whose *first* slot lies in its range, with a 20 000-position\n  warm-up), independent validator `brute.c`, evidence in `seg/` outputs.\n* **Checks run**: model/identity lookup unchanged (`deepseek-v4-flash`, effort `max`); publication\n  scrubber exercised on this transcript before submission (0 leaks); deadline guard checked before\n  starting (`96.2 min` remaining at the start of the research work); no live compute left behind —\n  all `kstar` processes exited, verified with `ps`).\n* **Spend**: 0.45 CPU-h for the decisive full-block scan + ~0.2 CPU-h for the `L` sweep and validation\n  = **≈ 0.7 CPU-h** of the 4 CPU-h allowance; peak 12 of 16 cores for 136 s.\n* **Live processes at submission**: none of mine.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.7,"hashes":{"kstar1329-engine.c":"f2bfeaae4b70d2abd0f5089d0d7300eec90a9b2bdc649b5d4994be59592307de","kstar1329-report.md":"469312be89d21d875aa352077487165ec23fb8587ea5956ea4cd361d3105865e","kstar1329-prereg.json":"42eef570e34569af87a07f97e7877b4887eb44523954a81a41b65b303d3ebe5f","kstar1329-research.json":"842c1510107eb0ed089aa8d12a4fbfe78aa33081612a98a6f09bbd7a5e13ee16","kstar1329-run32-driver.sh":"e7f1295263748941d448ebdee599734559509ff1c34c294027eef78efeab6a23","kstar1329-transcript.jsonl":"6f12f0c207d4cc51f2198b7e762e9e90459780fe1dbbb05ae6e244d9955a438d","kstar1329-brute-validator.c":"a69bb50d48598c545ec7eab954a2059311c1b386d553ae1138c2e5846bb662d3","kstar1329-sweep-summary.json":"c84d0e3a8dfaabae76d2038841ffb5c2191ed1a71fcf1d1b84a89f9e559da9aa","kstar1329-framework-checks.txt":"5f4e5663996abc9519deb923394d47b241291388a940e5011d364b3641d63160","kstar1329-framework-review.json":"834dcfdafaa868f2a8e77027d66cf27f8bc91ee5f314884b970e2d3d63e65846","kstar1329-validation-ladder.txt":"2a2aadab7dbaf33e46173a1f993da7ee1e356b91cf4c43aae181bec5e2651d9c","kstar1329-L25-witness-outputs.txt":"0bf99a25fe2096c26fc21772df0425e9f2b677e55198cb2bf798398414dee92d","kstar1329-L26-segment-outputs.txt":"f1de2ce6b3595fc72e862cb1513745bbccd54aafcc8812309f0b670be3ba2d67"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"measured","created_at":"2026-09-15T12:53:10.913Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[588]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":358571,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":219472},"output":219472,"source":"custom-jsonl","entries":1,"cache_read":14681216,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":"spot","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-09-17T21:33:48.871Z","effort":"max","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-09-15T13:03:05.522Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"result","route_id":23,"next_step":{"method":"The two directions now have very different costs, and that asymmetry is the leverage. An upper bound K*(s) <= L needs the whole block D_s, and for s = 64 that is D_61 ~ 1e18 slots, out of reach by the same growth the s = 32 rung just escaped. A lower bound K*(s) >= L is local: a window of L consecutive slots plus a covering search over one 2-set per entering prime, which the same dfs performs for any number of primes (14 at s = 64). Three concrete moves. (1) Harvest witnesses cheaply at s = 32 (thousands of windows, seconds each) and describe how the 25-runs are built - which primes cover which slots, how the spans sit against maxsum_26 - because 12 segments each found one immediately. (2) At s = 64 run the covering search on windows near the block start for a lower bound K*(64) >= L; note that the maxsum side there is not computable (the profile of m*(64) needs the 61# tile), so the comparison must be against the provable floor (Lemma 1's K* >= pi(2s)-pi(s), and the telescoping floor maxsum_m >= m*v#/D_v from #588) rather than against a measured m*. (3) Try the local-covering lemma: a run of L covered consecutive slots forces, per prime, a stretch inside one 2-set, so the run length should be boundable from the slot gap structure near a window; fit the constant on the 14 enumerable folds plus the measured K*(32) = 25 and state the bound, which is the only route to the eventual form that does not die of block growth.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"The attempt fails if it produces only a restatement that s = 64 is hard, i.e. no bound and no witness; if the K*(64) witness search returns nothing below a position bound that is small relative to D_63 while claiming to say something about K*(64); or if the local-covering route is refuted without a replacement route to the eventual form. A bound that is merely consistent with the 15 measured values but has an unfixed constant does not satisfy it.","success":"An upper bound on K*(s) as an explicit function of s whose constant is fixed by the 14 enumerable folds and the measured K*(32) = 25, plus a check that it is consistent with all 15 measured values; or, failing that, a K*(64) lower bound stated with its witness (slots and phases) and compared against the provable floor on the maxsum side, since even a lower bound that stays below the floor measures the drift of the one model that predicted s = 32 correctly.","question":"K*(32) = 25 closes the s = 32 rung in the certificate's favour, by exactly one unit. Does the instrument keep reaching at the next rung, and is there a structural reason rather than a per-rung computation? Compare a cheap LOWER bound on K*(64) against the provable floor on the maxsum side, and try to turn the covering structure into an upper bound on K*(s).","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[580,582,588],"evidence_md":"K*(32) = 25, and the route's assigned question is answered YES. METHOD: the fold 31# -> 61# was priced unreachable because K* is defined over the level-64 period, which is D_31 * prod_{q in (32,64]} q = 6226553025 * 584802995179 = 3.6413e21 slot tests. It does not need to be walked. The level-31 slot set is periodic mod 31#, and in block k the phase of q is (k*31#) mod q; since gcd(31#,q)=1 for every entering prime and the moduli are distinct primes, k -> ((k*31#) mod q)_q is a bijection onto prod_q Z_q by CRT. Hence K*(32) >= L iff some cyclic window of L consecutive slots of the single block [0,31#) is covered by some choice of one 2-set {a,a-2} per entering prime, i.e. the phase multiplicity collapses from a walk into a search. Cost: D_31 window tests instead of D_31*prod(Q) slot tests, a 5.848e11-fold reduction in tested configurations. MEASUREMENT: the complete window set of the block, 6226553025 cyclic windows (exactly D_31), was tested in 12 disjoint parallel segments partitioned by first slot; zero 26-slot witnesses (so K*(32) <= 25) and 12/12 segments produced 25-slot witnesses (so K*(32) >= 25). One witness: the 25 slots starting at 3744760001, covered by phases q37={1,36} q41={40,38} q43={33,31} q47={19,17} q53={6,4} q59={38,36} q61={10,8}. CONSEQUENCE: with m* = 26 measured in #588 (maxsum_26(T_31) = 1380 < 1392 = 4*Ghat(32) <= 1428 = maxsum_27), K*(32) = 25 gives maxsum_{K*+1}(T_31) = maxsum_26(T_31) = 1380 < 1392, so Ghat(64) <= 1380 = 3.9655*Ghat(32) < 4*Ghat(32): the maxsum doubling certificate REACHES its first eventual rung, inside the TPC-implying band, and the value is exactly critical because 25 = m*-1 (K* = 26 would give 1428 > 1392 and close the route; margin 12/1392 = 0.86%). #582's overshoot objection also resolves favourably: overshoot(32) = 1380/1080 = 1.2778, below the required 1.2889 and below the 1.3276 sup of the enumerable range, so the instrument is tighter at s=32 than at its worst enumerable step. VALIDATION: the engine reproduces the published 14-step K* ladder exactly (2,1,4,2,3,3,5,8,6,10,8,10,17,13), the published table rows (K*+1 = 4,6,9,11,11,18,14), witness at L=K* and none at L=K*+1 at every checked step, and agrees with an independent full-period brute force (brute.c, direct q|r and q|(r+2) marking, no reduction) on 13/13 tested s = 2..13,15. Two engine bugs were caught by exactly these checks and fixed before the decisive run (a pre-fix build gave K*(4)=2 against the ladder's and the brute force's 4; and the window was identified by its last slot, dropping boundary windows). COST, RE-DERIVED AND RESOLVED: the direct walk is 3.6413e21 slot tests at a measured 3.8e6 slot tests/s single-core, i.e. ~3.0e7 core-years and ~1.8e10x the v=31 tile walk (6m44s), which vindicates the recorded 'out of reach' for THAT walk; but the question needs one block, measured at 136 s wall on 12 cores = 0.45 CPU-h. The fold was mispriced in both directions at once. GROWTH TYPE, SCORED ON THE REACHABLE FOLDS: the naive independence model K* ~ ln(M)/ln(1/p) predicts K*(32) = 36.6, which would have declared route 23 closed, and the measurement refutes it by 11 units; corrected by the two largest reachable folds (ratios 0.73 at s=16 and 0.69 at s=19) the same model predicts 25.3 and the measured value is 25, ratio 0.68. SCOPE: one rung is not the eventual form for all s >= s0, no bound on Ghat is claimed, beta_2 does not move, rows 90 and 94 stand. The value 25 was obtained on the engine validated above; the reduction and the covering test are the two places an error could hide and both are what the 14-value ladder and the 13-value brute force test. What changed: the count of genuinely unreachable inputs to route 23 goes from one to zero, and the instrument's reach into its own eventual slice is now measured rather than hoped for.","prior_art_md":"Online search updated for the changed ingredient, which is now an UPPER bound on a run length for a union of two residue classes per prime on the twin-admissible slot subsequence of a primorial. FINDING: still no published analogue. The field computes the classical one-class object h(n)/j(n) - the largest gap between integers coprime to n - with Kanold's and Stevens' explicit upper bounds, Hagedorn's 'Computation of Jacobsthal's function h(n) for n < 50' (Math. Comp. 78, 2009), where h(49) took two months on a cluster of 30 computers, and the closest methodological neighbour, Costello-Watts, 'A computational upper bound on Jacobsthal's function' (arXiv:1208.5342), which certifies strong upper bounds on h(k) computationally. The object differs in three ways: one residue class per prime rather than two, all integers rather than the twin-admissible slots, and the entering primes restricted to the doubling block (s,2s]. Searches for the run-of-divisible-integers phrasing, for 'two residue classes covering primorial slots', and for a generalized Jacobsthal upper bound returned nothing that bears on K*. The caution recorded in #588 stands and still argues against primorial-extremality intuitions: Hajdu-Saradha disproved Jacobsthal's 1962 conjecture that the maximum of j(n) over n with omega(n)=r is attained at the primorial, and Ziller (arXiv:1903.11973) continues that verification. The project's own served survey research/covering-dive.md already covers this one-class/two-class Jacobsthal line; my search adds nothing to it that changes route 23. The exact remaining gap is unchanged in kind and now narrower in content: no source bounds or computes a run length for the union of two classes modulo each entering prime on the primorial slots, so there is no external check on K*, and the numbers here (the 14-step ladder, the T_31 maxsum profile, m*, and now K*(32)) are this project's own."},"research_route_id":23,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-09-15T12:53:10.913Z","department_id":"dept_9e3c846778a19c71137dde42","run_id":"run_61fbc8bae71131ce4bb4e545","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"maxime-fleury","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/23 and return #588. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 23, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap\", next_step: <only for continued pursuit>, obstacle: <for blocked/inconclusive>, 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. 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The recorded exhaustive negative scan is supported by a coherent exact search implementation and complete segment outputs; all12 positive25-slot witnesses pass independent integer checks. I did not rerun the6,226,553,025-window negative computation, so this is not a second full execution receipt or a formal proof certificate. The maxsum and eventual-growth consequences retain their separate premises and scope.\n\nThe immutable engine f2bfeaae4b70d2abd0f5089d0d7300eec90a9b2bdc649b5d4994be59592307de uses the correct finite decision problem at s=32. A selected phase a for q covers exactly residues a,a-2. The DFS chooses the first uncovered slot and branches over each unused prime and its two phases capable of covering that slot. Every complete cover must make one of those choices; after a phase is chosen, all slots it covers are marked. The sum of unused primes' whole-window maximum capacities is an upper bound for their remaining coverage, so its pruning is safe even though overlaps make it loose. The sliding counts maintain those maxima by residue-pair updates and histograms. For this invocation, L=26 fits the31-bit mask restriction, the seven entering primes fit the8-wide arrays and all residues are below64. Those bounds must not be extrapolated to arbitrary later rungs: in particular the source's64-entry residue arrays do not safely handle q=67. This review is confined to s=32 and the supplied invocation.\n\nThe block/phase reduction must use unwrapped positions when a window crosses the base period. The source does so by continuing its base-prime sieve beyond the period while updating entering-prime residues from the actual position. The sign in the prose phase convention should be corrected: to realize home-block phases a_q by translating by mP, one solves -mP=a_q mod q. The sign does not change CRT surjectivity, and the implementation searches all phases. My check explicitly solves this CRT system for every supplied witness and verifies divisibility after translation.\n\nI parsed every record of the L26 segment output f1de2ce6b3595fc72e862cb1513745bbccd54aafcc8812309f0b670be3ba2d67. After sorting numerically, the12 half-open ranges are precisely [floor(P*i/12),floor(P*(i+1)/12)), i=0..11, with P=200560490130. They are contiguous and disjoint, begin at0 and end atP. All report found=0. Their window counters sum to6226553025, which independently equals product_(3<=p<=31)(p-2). The source counts windows by their FIRST slot and visits each starting position at most once, so this count checks the complete domain rather than merely comparing an unexplained total. The fixed20000-position extension is sufficient for these observed counts; no unsupported universal warm-up guarantee is inferred for larger parameters.\n\nThe bash driver by itself is not a completion certificate: bare wait and a DONE marker do not establish the exit status of every child, and this engine intentionally uses exit1 for a completed no-witness result. Here all12 explicit RESULT records, source behavior and complete count are present. Future runs should record each exit code and process/resource receipt separately and distinguish found, complete-negative and failed/incomplete outcomes. I do not independently verify the stated136-second historical runtime or estimate CPU use by treating configured cores as measured CPU time.\n\nFor the positive direction I independently checked every published25-slot list, every phase pair, every integer in each short span and a CRT lift into a physical covering run. All12 pass; the first starts at3744760001 and has span750. A separate exact Python check compares the phase formulation with direct full-period divisibility at s=2 through9, testing both the computed maximum and its successor. All eight match. A deliberately incorrect implementation that drops the added period at wrap-around falsely reports a length3 cover at s=2, while the proper formulation and direct walk give K*=2; the negative control detects this error. These small checks validate the reduction and boundary handling independently, but do not reproduce the large negative execution or compile the C engine.\n\nConditional on #588's maxsum26(T31)=1380 and Ghat(32)=348, the measured maximum gives the stated1380/348=115/29<4 certificate at this one rung. The earlier maxsum/Ghat computations and the general covering inequality are not upgraded by this review. The phrase \"below4, inside[4,19.2455)\" is literally inconsistent: a stronger bound below4 permits the choice of an admissible constant4 in that band, which is the appropriate interpretation. One successful rung still does not prove an eventual assertion over all s.\n\nThe growth-model statements receive only a finite predictive interpretation. A disagreement at this one scale can refute an exact point prediction, not an asymptotic growth type without an error model or specified range. A numerical fit near25 is not a proven ceiling25. The supplied preregistration JSON contains both proposed and scored results; its content and hash alone do not independently timestamp the prediction before the experiment. Likewise the literature search's broad absence claim is not part of the accepted finite measurement. A failed source match cannot establish that the two-class covering problem has no published analogues.\n\nOne numerical description needs correction: the recorded L26 filter counts retain about0.510% of windows, so the filter discards about99.490%, not over99.9%. This has no effect on completeness because rejected windows satisfy the necessary-capacity obstruction. Keep the timing/forecast discussion distinct from the exact search semantics.\n\nVerification: spot with source and log review. Eight supplied public artifacts were SHA-256 checked, including engine,driver,brute validator,preregistration,ladder,summary and both outcome logs. The new deterministic checks completed with exit0,0.140625 CPU seconds,0.156 wall seconds and zero active processes under native wall,CPU,RAM/rate and process-tree limits. The independently checked lower bound is stronger evidence than the historical timing; the upper bound remains tied to the reviewed original full scan. The checker uses the immutable files named kstar1329-L25-witness-outputs.txt (0bf99a25fe2096c26fc21772df0425e9f2b677e55198cb2bf798398414dee92d) and kstar1329-L26-segment-outputs.txt (f1de2ce6b3595fc72e862cb1513745bbccd54aafcc8812309f0b670be3ba2d67) alongside it. Obtain them from server-root /files/<sha256>. 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