{"id":6882,"job_id":13625,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":61,"model":"glm-5.3-flash","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Job #13625 — Q-derive-0904-L7-transfer (dir-558): the unrun third-mechanism search is run; the owning convention poses the quadratic bound as an open conjecture, and no transfer mechanism reaches L7\n\n**Rung.** `verified` for the finite checks only: exact-fraction recomputation matched the corpus's VERIFIED producer values at x = 7, 11, 13 and matched published tables over their stated ranges (details in \"Exact checks\"). The literature-scope negative is **SOURCED**, not verified — it is a calibrated search record per `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §2, not a computation, and it is not an exhaustion claim. Every claim below carries its own rung.\n\n## 0. The question and what was uncovered before this work\n\nThe corpus's record (`research/history/staging/derive-0904-L7-transfer.md`, accepted return #152, ledger PARTIAL) answers the question for the two transfer mechanisms it holds: the union bound over the second class is vacuous in the period average from x = 11 (exact CRT budget B(x) = Σ_{3≤p≤x} 1/(p−1) passes 1 at x = 11, VERIFIED on the producer at x = 7, 11, 13), and the sieve-on-holes transfer reduces to the Brüdern–Fouvry vector sieve, whose coupled unconditional price is K_BF = 5.158065 at free levels (2(1+√e) = 5.2974 with the levels forced equal), both above β₂ = 4.26645, and whose decoupled form needs the sup-over-positions remainder law that the corpus closed as a truth gap. Chen-switching weighted sieves on the hole set are priced and closed (`sift-limit-attack.md` §4.2). The note's §6 falsifier 1 was explicit that the remaining gap was unrun: *\"A transfer argument that is neither the union bound nor a sieve on the hole set. None is known to this note; not searched in the literature beyond the corpus's own `recon-0828-jacobsthal.md` and `covering-dive.md` … Not run.\"*\n\nThis assignment ran that search, in the owning conventions, on channels calibrated in-session, and priced everything it surfaced. **Verdict: the standing record stands. No third transfer mechanism was found; the paired-Jacobsthal owning convention already poses the quadratic two-class upper bound as an open conjecture with a proved implication to prime-pair infinitude; the only published theorem at an adjacent polynomial-shift object is a lower bound (§2b).**\n\n## 1. The search, per channel [SOURCED; channels calibrated in-session]\n\nCalibrations: OpenAlex `W129012938` (Iwaniec 1978, \"ON THE PROBLEM OF JACOBSTHAL\") returned with `cited_by_count` 83 (the 2026-08-28 pass recorded 82; one citation later); arXiv API (HTTPS) returned the full record for `id_list=2302.00459`; MathSciNet `mrlookup` POST returned \"Retrieved first 3 documents out of 8\" with BibTeX for `ti=Jacobsthal&year=2015`; OEIS returned the b-files of A144311 and A048670 (both known positives). zbMATH's open API is reachable but returns licence-blocked rows (the known behaviour `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` records); no negative rests on it.\n\n- **Iwaniec-1978 citing works, all 83 scanned by title (OpenAlex).** The only upper-bound titles are Costello–Watts, \"An upper bound on Jacobsthal's function\" (2014) and \"A computational upper bound on Jacobsthal's function\" (2012) — one class, general n. The rest: primitive roots, prime gaps (lower side), sums of two squares, Konyagin 2025 (the general-set gap framework, whose statistic ρ*(x;A) is an infimum over windows — the opposite quantifier from G₂, already priced as A11 in `recon-0828-jacobsthal.md`), and the Kalmynin–Konyagin polynomial paper (lower bound, below).\n- **arXiv `abs:\"Jacobsthal function\"`, 17 records, newest-first.** The only two-class items are Ziller–Morack's two 2017 papers (below). The rest is one-class: Costello–Watts, Paseman's arXiv:1311.5944 (unbounded exponent, already in `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §5), 1708.05415 (Jacobsthal bounds ⇒ Dirichlet-type statements, one class — the one-class mirror of ZM's implication), 1903.11973 (Jacobsthal's conjecture counterexamples, one class), 2007.01808 (distribution of one-class gap differences), math/0702673, 1209.3464 (the corpus's withdrawn-closed-form row), 2302.00459 (below), and sequence/graph algebra.\n- **OpenAlex title searches:** \"two-class jacobsthal\" 0; \"jacobsthal residue classes\" 0; \"jacobsthal k-tuple\" 0; \"paired jacobsthal\" 1 (the ZM computation note); \"twin jacobsthal\" 1 — one OpenAlex record covering the Zenodo TPOP preprint items (2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22…): self-published, unrefereed preprints claiming a deterministic proof of twin-prime infinitude; no Jacobsthal-transfer content; inspected at abstract level and dismissed.\n- **MathSciNet since 2015:** 8 records, all Jacobsthal–Lucas sequence algebra except the KK indexing.\n\n## 2. What the search found, and what each item reduces to\n\n**2a. The paired-Jacobsthal convention owns the target as an open conjecture [SOURCED, read at page].** Ziller–Morack, arXiv:1706.00317 (2017): weak divisibility (k | (a,b) iff k | a or k | b); j₂(n) = the smallest m such that every paired progression ⟨a,b⟩_m of length m with even difference contains a pair with BOTH coordinates coprime to n; h₂(n) = j₂(pₙ#); **Conjecture: h₂(n) < pₙ² − pₙ for n ≥ 3**; Theorem 4.1: the conjectured bound is sufficient for the tightened Goldbach conjecture and hence the infinitude of prime pairs for every even difference. The companion arXiv:1706.03668 computes exact h₂(n) for n ≤ 21 (Table 1: 2, 6, 18, 30, 66, 150, 192, 258, 366, 450, 570, 708, 894, 1044, 1284, 1422, 1656, 1902, 2190, 2460, 2622), all inside the conjectured bound.\n\nReduction to the corpus's objects [DERIVED, one line]: the d = 2 paired progressions are inside the universally quantified family, so h₂(n) ≥ G₂(pₙ#) (the corpus's `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §1 already notes h₂ ≥ G₂; the exact check in §3 confirms it on both published tables for every n ≤ 21). Hence ZM's conjecture implies **G₂(pₙ#) < pₙ² − pₙ** — the quadratic two-class Jacobsthal bound at explicit constant 1 and no logarithm, strictly stronger than L7 (which allows an inexplicit constant and (ln x)^A slack). Via the corpus's tile form (G₂ < x′² − 2 is the TPC line, `ZONE-POSTULATE.md` §2), G₂ < x² − x ⇒ G₂ < x′² − 2, so the conjecture is TPC-line-strength — coherent with ZM's own theorem that it implies prime pairs.\n\nStatus: a conjecture, verified computationally by its authors to n = 21, with no mechanism and no derivation from the one-class Iwaniec theorem; their implication is bound ⇒ primes, one-directional. So the L7 note's §4 line \"not novel to pose\" gains its precise published owner: the quadratic version of the target **is posed in print** (2017), open, and known to imply prime-pair infinitude. The corpus's row \"Published upper bound on G₂ at any exponent? None found\" is unchanged — no theorem exists.\n\n**2b. The only published theorem at an adjacent polynomial-shift object is a lower bound [SOURCED, read at page].** Kalmynin–Konyagin, arXiv:2302.00459, \"A polynomial analogue of Jacobsthal function\": their j_f(N) = max{m : ∃x with (x+f(i), N) > 1 for all i ≤ m} shifts the VALUE, not the argument — their own words: \"instead of the intervals not containing numbers coprime to N we study shifts of polynomial sequences\" — and the corpus's `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §1 row records exactly this: \"j_f … a shift of the value, not of the argument\". For f = t(t+2) the killed positions are x + i(i+2) = (i+1)² + (x−1): consecutive shifted squares. So j_{t(t+2)} is an ADJACENT object, not the twin-slot run object (consecutive t with gcd(t(t+2), P(y)) > 1), which is the argument-shift generalization the corpus's MathOverflow-88323 row owns; numerically j_{t(t+2)}(30) = 10 ≠ G₂(5#) = 12 and j_{t(t+2)}(210) = 22 ≠ G₂(7#) = 30 (exact brute force, reproduced in this session). They prove the Rankin-type **lower** bound j_f(P(y)) ≫ y(ln y)^{ℓ_f−1}((lnln y)²/(lnlnln y))^{h_f}((ln y·lnlnln y)/(lnln y)²)^{M(f)}, with Mₚ(f) the maximal number of solutions of f(x) = y over y ∈ Fₚ\\{0} and M(f) its average over primes. Specialization [DERIVED]: ℓ_f = 2 (both factors linear), h_f = 0, and Mₚ(f) = 2 for every p ≥ 5 — exact brute force at p = 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 gives 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, and structurally (t+1)² = y+1 has two roots whenever y+1 is a nonzero square other than 1, which exists for every p ≥ 5 — so M(f) = 2 and\n\n  **j_{t(t+2)}(P(y)) ≫ y·(ln y)³·(lnlnln y)²/(lnln y)⁴**,\n\na correct lower bound for the value-shift object: published prior art adjacent to the twin-slot problem, and the searched literature holds no upper bound for it or for the twin-slot object. OpenAlex records zero citing works across all three of its records for the paper (response saved) — no upper-bound follow-up exists.\n\n## 3. Exact checks run (`check_l7_transfer.py`, output `check_l7_transfer.out`) [DERIVED; the x ≤ 13 rows extend the note's VERIFIED producer output]\n\n1. **Union-bound budget and exact failure fraction**, exact fractions, x = 7..29. B(x): 11/12, 61/60, 11/10, 93/80, 877/720, 10007/7920, 72029/55440 — passes 1 at x = 11 and diverges. F(x) = 1 − ∏_{3≤p≤x}(1 − 1/(p−1)): 11/16, 23/32, 95/128, … — reproduces the note's VERIFIED values 0.6875, 0.71875, 0.7421875 exactly, and tends to 1. The slack B − F grows (0.229 at x = 7 to 0.509 at x = 29): the union bound's vacuity is structural, not a constant a better window could recover.\n2. **Census**: |T_x| = ∏_{3≤p≤x}(p−2) and phi(W) = ∏_{p≤x}(p−1) exact at x = 7, 11, 13; the twin-slot fraction among the holes reads 0.3125, 0.28125, 0.2578125.\n\n3. **Mₚ(f)** for f = t(t+2): 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 at p = 3, 5, 7, 11, 13.\n4. **Ladder cross-check** [DERIVED from published tables]: G₂(n) = A144311(n)+1 ≤ h₂(n) (ZM Table 1) for every n ≤ 21; h₂(n) < pₙ² − pₙ for every 3 ≤ n ≤ 21 (ZM's claim range; n = 1, 2 are boundary equalities outside it); and **G₂(n) < pₙ² − pₙ for every n ≤ 22** — the corpus's own ladder (A144311 to x = 79, G₂(79#) = 1710 < 6162) extends ZM's verification range by one level on the G₂ side.\n5. **Ratios** (context, published tables, no new measurement): G₂/g with g = A048670 rises from 1.0 to about 8.4 over x = 2..73, peaking at 8.45 at x = 67 and ending at 8.05 at x = 73 — the series is non-monotone (consistent with the corpus's measured \"second class costs about one logarithm\": the ratio (G₂/g) over ln pₙ reads about 1.9–2.0 at these levels); h₂ over pₙ² ∈ [0.48, 0.89] with no visible logarithmic growth — the quadratic conjecture's constant sits near 0.5 at x ≤ 73.\n\n## 4. Answer to the assignment's question\n\nL7 is **not reachable by any transfer mechanism the corpus holds or the searched literature publishes**: the union bound is vacuous and diverging (mechanism 1, now re-verified exactly to x = 29), the sieve-on-holes transfer is the vector sieve above β₂ (mechanism 2, corpus-priced), Chen-switching is closed, inclusion–exclusion is β₂ itself, and the third-mechanism search — the one falsifier the record left unrun — returned the paired-Jacobsthal conjecture (a posed, open, TPC-line-strength target, not a mechanism), the Kalmynin–Konyagin lower bound for the adjacent value-shift polynomial object (the adversary's side, adjacent object), and one-class material. Each transfer mechanism reduces exactly as the record says; L7 stays a legal open statement with no mechanism, and the literature's owning convention confirms the shape: the quadratic two-class Jacobsthal bound is conjectured, unproved, and known to imply prime pairs — the corpus's \"κ = 2 positivity problem wearing one-class clothing\".\n\n## 5. What would falsify this return\n\n- A published upper-bound theorem for j₂, j_f (f = t(t+2)), or G₂ at primorials at any exponent, on any channel — reopens L7 as sourced.\n- A derivation of ZM's conjecture (or any quadratic two-class bound) from the one-class Iwaniec theorem — the actual transfer the question asks for; nothing in the searched literature attempts one.\n- A computation with h₂(n) ≥ pₙ² (or G₂(pₙ#) ≥ pₙ²) at some n — refutes the owning convention's conjecture and the strongest published form of the target.\n\n## 6. Limits\n\n- The search is calibrated and per-channel but not exhaustive: MathSciNet review text, zbMATH's licence-blocked rows, and full citation-network sweeps beyond OpenAlex's forward list remain unsearched (the same residual the corpus's own §5 records). A keyword negative is void without calibration; every negative above names a calibrated channel and its outcome.\n- Costello–Watts 2014/2012 and 1708.05415 were classified one-class from title/abstract; their full texts were not read (their objects are the one-class Jacobsthal function, and the classification does not rest on their internals).\n- KK's M(f) average convention was read at their Definition; Mₚ(f) is exact at p ≤ 13 and the limit M(f) = 2 follows from the structural argument at p ≥ 5.\n- No new G₂ measurement was made; all ladder values are published (A144311 to x = 79; ZM's h₂ table to n = 21) and the corpus's exact-strata certificates are unchanged.\n\n## 7. Sources\n\n- Corpus: `research/history/staging/derive-0904-L7-transfer.md` (accepted return #152; ledger PARTIAL); `sift-limit-attack.md` §§2, 4.2, 7b (vector-sieve prices K_BF = 5.158065, K_FH = 2(1+√e) = 5.2974); `recon-0828-jacobsthal.md` (thirteen graded angles); `covering-dive.md`; `SEARCH-CONVENTIONS.md` §§1–5 (owning conventions, calibrated channels, β₂ table); `QUESTIONS.md` row Q-derive-0904-L7-transfer; `ZONE-POSTULATE.md` §2 (tile form) as quoted by the L7 note.\n- Ziller–Morack, arXiv:1706.00317 (conjecture h₂(n) < pₙ² − pₙ; Theorem 4.1; Definitions 1.1–2.2) — PDF sha256 12f6d8a24a06193bd0106b22a200c950d4439ee9c798d9434a3eee8a6207f878, read at page (pdftotext).\n- Ziller–Morack, arXiv:1706.03668 (Table 1, exact h₂(n) for n ≤ 21) — PDF sha256 9055ceba40e7768fb0dc158b74a69ac6fc0dfe078ca0d9305afb5bfe5e6a297e.\n- Kalmynin–Konyagin, arXiv:2302.00459 (polynomial analogue; M(f) definition; lower-bound theorem) — PDF sha256 9dd8ce68421e50756ff7341a2320aaf65f240a9d98cca127d0525113e1613a79.\n- OEIS A144311 b-file (G₂ − 1 ladder, 22 terms to x = 79), sha256 2a169cba0624ff9b617688f62398baa8993bdb97a42e604804f401f29df3b00d; OEIS A048670 b-file (one-class Jacobsthal at primorials), sha256 9e0ddb1c7b2edcd113ce3888938ecf9c01f2da716af54ec54219f8a18243a1ed.\n- OpenAlex: work W129012938 and its 83 citing works (list saved, sha256 2ad440848eaee729588eefb04bc017bd2545a12ade067b5f2c60ec39437d5dfc); the citing-works query for the three Kalmynin–Konyagin records (count 0, response saved, sha256 b0b685315f2b0c05b47277c8ae6b5511e94a2b2be23bb52589d4bd6b4c5881a2); title-search counts as recorded in §1.\n- MathSciNet mrlookup, query ti=Jacobsthal, year=2015 (8 records); arXiv API queries as recorded in §1.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"check_l7_transfer.out":"012575af85ffa84ba4ba659eb0479e0282b4805a745dc7e7f93679b7f3a60774"},"author_rung":"verified","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-04T09:10:42.094Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[152],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":240466,"models":{"glm-5.3-flash":136854},"output":136854,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":24501624,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"xhigh","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":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_305c5ed257ff1e3f8cabe7ff","run_id":"run_57ae7628162bcb3d0f3b9d3c","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":"malaiwah","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. 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