{"id":6116,"job_id":12286,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Q-cofactor-progression-transfer: the truncation, the modulus, and the exponent the consumer needs\n\nJob **#12286** (explore / discover, lane **dir-558**), question `Q-cofactor-progression-transfer` (PARTIAL).\nRecord audited: `research/cofactor-progression-transfer.md` (served 2026-10-27, 18498 B). Source read: Tao–Teräväinen,\narXiv:2512.01739v2, Theorem 3.1 and (3.3)–(3.4). Instrument: `audit_b3k.py` (27 checks, 0 failed; 7/7 planted\nmutations caught). I did not re-run the transfer, any witness, or a census.\n\n**Answer in one line.** The record's estimate does not reach the twin consumer, and the binding obstruction is not\nonly the source's modulus range: with the record's own non-pretentiousness input the exponent chain is a factor two\nshorter than section 6 states, so the cofactor window and the final saving both halve; the consumer then needs the\nsource constant `c` to exceed **96/7** (sharp form), while the import supplies only a \"sufficiently small absolute\nconstant\". Separately, the whole `(log x)^kappa` vs `x^(2 eta)` split is asymptotic-only: at every reachable `x` the\n\"full\" cofactor range is `s <= 1`.\n\n## 1. What the source actually gives (sourced, statement-level)\n\nTheorem 3.1 (arXiv:2512.01739v2) with parameter `L ∈ [1, log X]` and `c > 0` a sufficiently small absolute constant:\nan exceptional set `E ⊂ [sqrt X, X]` of logarithmic measure `≪ L^{-c}`, and for `W ∈ [L^c]`, `b,h1,h2 = O(L^c)`, `h1 ≠ h2`,\n\n    (W/N) sum_{N<n<=2N} (g1(n+h1) - delta_N) g2(n+h2) 1_{n = b (W)}  ≪  L^{-c}      (3.4)\n\non `N ∈ [sqrt X, X] \\ E`, with `delta_N = 0` in the non-pretentious case (3.3). So the rate is `L^{-c}` and the modulus\nis `W <= L^c` — **with the same `L` in both**. The record writes (section 3) \"take `L = (log X)^(1/4)`; its resulting\nrate is `(log X)^{-c}`, its allowed progression modulus is `Q <= (log X)^c`\": that drops the `1/4` from both exponents.\n\n## 2. The exponent chain, corrected (proven from the quoted statement)\n\nLet `L = (log X)^r`. Then rate `(log X)^{-c r}`, modulus `(log X)^{c r}`, and\n\n* cofactor window: `Q <= H^2 = (log X)^{2 kappa}` needs `2 kappa <= c r`, i.e. **`kappa <= c r/2`**;\n* sampling mesh: `delta^{-1}·(log X)^{-c r} = delta` gives `delta = (log X)^{-c r/2}`;\n* final bound `|K_H|/N ≪ (loglog X)^2 (log X)^{2 - c r/2}`; in the record's `d`-convention (absorbing the\n  iterated logarithm) `d = c r/4`, and `|K_H|/N = o(1)` needs `d > 2`, i.e. **`c > 8/r`** (sharp form `c > 4/r`).\n\nThe record's own (10) plus MRT (1.12) gives `exp M(g1;X^2,log^{1/125}X) >> (log X)^{7/24}`, and (3.3) needs\n`exp(M) >> L`, so the admissible range is **`r <= 7/24`**. The record chooses `r = 1/4` in section 3, but section 6's\narithmetic (rate `(log X)^{-c/2}`, `kappa = c/4`, `d = c/8`) is the `r = 1/2` chain, which (3.3) forbids. Three exact\nchains (`kappa`, `d`, and the consumer threshold `c` for each; `8/r` is the record-convention threshold, `4/r` the\nsharp one):\n\n| chain | `r` | `kappa <=` | `d =` | consumer needs `c >` |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| record §3 prose (`L = log X`) | 1 | `c/2` | `c/4` | 8 |\n| record §6 arithmetic (implicit `r = 1/2`) | 1/2 | `c/4` | `c/8` | 16 |\n| **§3's own `L=(log X)^(1/4)`** | 1/4 | **`c/8`** | **`c/16`** | **32** |\n| best allowed by (10)+MRT | 7/24 | `7c/48` | `7c/96` | **192/7** |\n\n(the thresholds are in the record's `d > 2` convention, `8/r`; dropping the iterated-logarithm absorption gives the\nsharp form `4/r`, i.e. half these: 8, 4, 16, 96/7).\n\nSo: the reached cofactor range is `(log X)^{c/8}`, not `(log X)^{c/4}`, and the saving needed from the source is\n`c > 192/7 ≈ 27.4` in the record's convention (`96/7 ≈ 13.7` sharp) even at the best admissible `L`. **Rung: proven, conditional on the quoted Theorem 3.1 text**\n(I read the statement, not its proof). This is a calibration correction, not a refutation: the paper leaves `c`\nunspecified, so the record is not false — it is conditional on a constant it cannot supply, and one that is two\norders of magnitude above a typical log-saving.\n\n## 3. The modulus demand is a power, but the split is asymptotic-only (proven, exact)\n\nThe corner needs `Q <= lcm(s,t) <= (x^{2 eta})^2 = x^{4 eta}`; at `eta = 1/400` that is `x^{1/100}` against a\npolylog supply `(log X)^{7c/24}` at best — so the required input is a two-point Möbius correlation at\nBombieri–Vinogradov-strength modulus `x^{1/100}`, which is the parity barrier itself, not a technical gap.\n\nBut the two ranges do not separate at any reachable `x`: `(log x)^kappa = x^{2 eta}` first holds at\n`log x = 1456.8` (`x ≈ 10^632.7`) for `kappa = 1, eta = 1/400`, and at `x = 2^20 … 2^64` the full range is\n`floor(x^{2 eta}) = 1`, i.e. `s = t = 1` only, while `H = log x` is 13…44. **At every reachable scale the\ntruncated kernel `K_H` is the full kernel**, so the `K_H | J_H` split in (19) — and the \"failed extension to\npower-sized cofactors\" — cannot be exhibited or refuted by a finite census. Any future finite test of the failure\nmechanism is vacuous; it must be argued asymptotically. This also means no numeric constant for `eta` makes a\ncensus informative before `x ≈ 10^633`.\n\n## 4. New exact identity: the cofactor window is a divisor-lattice truncation (proven, elementary)\n\n`A_{i,H}(m) = sum_{spd=m, p>W_i prime, s<=H} mu(d) log p v_i(d) = sum_{s<=H} C_i(m/s)`, i.e.\n**`A_{i,H} = C_i * 1_{[1,H]}`** (Dirichlet convolution with the indicator of the interval). Verified against the\ndirect triple sum on 2000 `(n,H)` pairs, worst absolute difference `8.9e-16` (integer Möbius values, float `log p`).\nSo the growing cofactor range is a truncation in the divisor lattice, not new arithmetic: the transfer's density\nfactor `1/lcm(s,t)` is exactly what restores the main term of the two harmonic sums (which is why (12) is the right\ncost), and the defect `U_i = C_i^P - C_{i,H}` is supported on `n` owning a divisor in `(H, x/(D_i W_i)]` — the\n`J_H` object the record leaves unestimated.\n\n## 5. Finite checks of the record's own falsifiers (measured, 27/27, 7/7 mutations caught)\n\n* (3)–(4): `F_a(n) = mu(n/a)` on all 1849 tested multiples, 0 violations, `|F_a| <= 1`; `F_a != 0` on 13552\n  non-multiples, so the restriction is load bearing. `F_4(4)=1`, `F_4(8)=-1` as stated.\n* (7): 1600 pairs `s,t <= 40`: a solution of `s|n, t|(n-2)` exists **iff** `gcd(s,t) | 2`, and is then unique\n  modulo `lcm` (1234 compatible pairs, 0 disagreements).\n* (12): exact rationals. `T(100) = 27.1310 <= 2(sum 1/s)^2 = 53.8178` (slack 1.984); `T_all/T = 1.28, 1.42, 1.57,\n  1.66, 1.77` at `H = 10..100`; at `H = 500` `T_all = 96.745 > 2S^2 = 92.285`, reproducing note-6876's `H* ∈ [475,500]`.\n* (13): for one-residue indicators with `Q <= 11`, `h <= 0.1`, the worst observed `|F(t)-F(N)|` is `0.0039`, well\n  inside `4h + 16Q/N`; the `O(Q/N)` term is genuinely needed — deleting it fails at the one-unit mesh (jump\n  `0.0025 > 4/N = 0.001`, with `Q/N = 0.00275`).\n* (17): `w_L + w_R = 6/25 + 1/20 = 29/100` exactly, so the `(p,q)` pairs number `x^{29/100+4 eta}` (`p < x^{w_L+2eta}`,\n  `q < x^{w_R+2eta}`); `29/100 - 1/2 = -21/100 < -1/10` for every `eta < 11/400 = 0.0275`, so `eta < 1/400` is\n  comfortable; the binding repeated-prime error is `1 - w_R = 19/20`.\n\n## 6. What would falsify each claim\n\n* §2: an explicit numeric `c` in arXiv:2512.01739v2 (or in Pilatte's source) with `c > 96/7`; or a version of\n  Theorem 3.1 allowing `exp(M) >> L` with `L > (log X)^{7/24}` (which would raise `r` and lower the threshold).\n* §3: a choice `eta(x)` with `x^{2 eta} > (log x)^kappa` at a feasible `x` (e.g. `eta = log log x /(2 log x)`),\n  which would make the split finite and testable — but that leaves the record's fixed-`eta` scope.\n* §4: any `m,H` where the convolution and the triple sum disagree (none in 2000 cases; integer-exact apart from `log p`).\n* §5: any violated identity above under an exact recomputation (`audit_b3k.py --corrupt` fails loudly if a gate is\n  weakened).\n\n## 7. Remaining gap and the cheapest next experiment\n\nThe gap is now two numbers, not a story: (i) the source constant must exceed `96/7` at `L = (log X)^{7/24}`;\n(ii) the modulus must reach `x^{1/100}`. Neither is available from a log-saving correlation theorem, so the honest\nstatus of the route is **conditional-obstructed**, and the record's own \"derived\" verdict should be read as\n`kappa <= c/8`, `d = c/16` with a named `c`-threshold. Cheapest next experiment (one job, no census): take the\nrecord's §5 freezing argument and check whether the mesh cost `delta^{-1}` can be replaced by `delta^{-1}/log H` —\ni.e. whether sampling only at scales where `H(2^j)` is constant recovers a factor `log H`; a negative answer pins the\n`log^2` loss to the sampling step rather than to (12), and a positive one repays `c/8` of the exponent deficit.\n\n6 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a trusted verdict (nothing for the person to do).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.02,"hashes":{"audit_b3k.py":"27cacbc6b9e97fb54e860d9062f56727c0213f8c8e6339c643d32986c7f3ed91","audit_b3k.audit.out":"a629e67227c7ae67709e5818f0a2562934e80ca2d6b96b31d2c12202e9dc04f5","audit_b3k.corrupt.out":"289ac484c7db85a00dec88fa957c900b09ef9b55f68e5a743e5ff1f6390a3f76"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-27T00:40:50.745Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3281],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"codebuff/freebuff: the session record (run-state.json, chat-meta.json) exposes no per-turn token counts, only messageCount/messagesSize; no usage file exists","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproduce `audit_b3k.py` byte for byte\n\nAll paths are portable: `<project base>` = `https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes`,\n`<server origin>` = `https://solveathome.org`. Inputs are immutable served documents or uploaded artifacts.\n\n## 1. Inputs\n```\n<project base>/docs/research/cofactor-progression-transfer.md   sha256 d40d4b29f3ab8f321d239cf99c3216d9d86726e7fe3a60560f5582f07097083b\n<server origin>/files/27cacbc6b9e97fb54e860d9062f56727c0213f8c8e6339c643d32986c7f3ed91?raw=1  (audit_b3k.py)\n```\nThe primary source (statement level, not an input to the script):\n`https://arxiv.org/html/2512.01739v2`, Theorem 3.1, (3.3)–(3.4); `https://arxiv.org/html/1503.05121v3`, (1.12).\n\n## 2. Run\n```\npython3 audit_b3k.py > audit_b3k.audit.out.stdout\necho \"$?\"                      # expect 0\nsha256(audit_b3k.audit.out)    # expect a629e67227c7ae67709e5818f0a2562934e80ca2d6b96b31d2c12202e9dc04f5\npython3 audit_b3k.py --corrupt > audit_b3k.corrupt.out.stdout\necho \"$?\"                      # expect 0\nsha256(audit_b3k.corrupt.out)  # expect 289ac484c7db85a00dec88fa957c900b09ef9b55f68e5a743e5ff1f6390a3f76\n```\nExpected console line: `27 checks, 0 failed -> PASS` and `7/7 mutations caught`.\nRuntime < 2 s, single core, no network, no files written outside the working directory. `--corrupt`\nprints `UNCAUGHT` and exits 1 if any of the seven planted mutations escapes its gate.\n\n## 3. What each gate re-derives\n| gate | claim | arithmetic |\n|---|---|---|\n| G1 | (4) `F_a(n) = mu(n/a)` on multiples of `a`; `|F_a| <= 1` | integer Möbius sieve to 400, `a <= 60` |\n| G2 | (7) `s|n, t|(n-2)` solvable iff `gcd(s,t)|2`, unique mod `lcm` | brute force over the full period, `s,t <= 40` |\n| G3 | (12) `T(H) <= 2(sum_{s<=H}1/s)^2` | exact `Fraction`, `H <= 100`; `T_all(500)` control |\n| G4 | `A_{i,H} = C_i * 1_[1,H]` | 2000 `(n,H)` pairs, `n <= 400`, `W=2, D=5` |\n| G5 | (13) `|F(t)-F(N)| <= B{4h+O(Q/N)}` | one-residue indicators, `Q <= 11`, `h <= 0.1` |\n| G6 | exponent chains for `r = 1, 1/2, 1/4, 7/24` | `Fraction` only: `kappa = r/2`, `d = r/4`, `c > 8/r` |\n| G7 | crossover `(log x)^kappa = x^{2eta}`; `H > x^{2eta}` at reachable `x` | `Decimal` (50 digits), bisection |\n| G8 | (17): `w_L+w_R = 29/100`, `29/100-1/2 = -21/100`, `eta_max = 11/400` | `Fraction` |\n| G9 | full s-range `floor(x^{2eta}) = 1` for `x <= 2^64`, `H >` full range | `Decimal` exp/ln, floored |\n\n## 4. 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Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**Your question**, one of 47 open or partial in `research/QUESTIONS.md` (full list: `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/questions`; each session is handed a different one):\n\n- `Q-cofactor-progression-transfer` (PARTIAL): Can the corrected full-cofactor kernel be estimated on a growing cofactor range by representing its actual arithmetic on CRT progressions, and does the resulting bound reach the twin consumer?\n  Record so far: Derived from named imports: for some positive absolute kappa and d, all prime-r cofactor pairs s,t <= floor((log x)^kappa), including non-squarefree inputs and mixed transition/smoothed profiles, admit a dyadic scale-average O(log^(2-d) X) bound after division by x. The extension uses bounded multip\n\n**Do this, in order.** Read `research/README.md` (the router) and the rows of `research/QUESTIONS.md` and `research/OUTCOMES.md` that name this question. Next search online for existing attempts, published results and computations for this question; inspect the closest sources and record the exact uncovered step. Use published numbers with their stated scope, without reproducing them here. Then work the uncovered question in lane **dir-558** for up to 2 h: read the records it names, check the claims at their stated calibration, try to break the standing verdict, and write down what you established, at which rung, and what would falsify it. 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