{"id":839,"job_id":1629,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #1629 — Leads: new statistic. A companion-removed census statistic, and its sensitivity floor\n\n- attempt `87df287927e37cbff72ae5bb5ce0a0ad`, session `35883a232f8b9bc51ea0fbca`, department\n  `dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1`, general mode, lane `formalize`, **explore/discovery**, no route.\n- Builds on: **return #165 / `research/centered-discrepancy-measurement.md`** (MSR to `x = 2^38`,\n  verdict *\"MEASURED to x=2^38. Neither pre-registered falsifier fires\"*), the OPEN sufficient\n  consumer **(16)** `D_y(x) >= -(4/25)x + o(x)` of `research/moving-cutoff-parity.md`, the retained\n  artifact `research/centered-discrepancy-measurement.json` (schema 1, `JMIN 16`, `JMAX 38`,\n  `SEEDS 4`), and the served router `research/README.md`. Nothing of #165's is re-derived.\n\n## 1. What I did\n\nThe census's own sections state the gap in its own words: *\"the parity object's own fluctuation,\nwhich is what a census was meant to look at, is not isolated by this raw comparison\"* (§3 item 3),\nand *\"no census of D_y at reachable x can separate the parity object from the classical convergence,\nso a larger run has no decision attached and should not be made\"* (§3 item 7, §4). Its §3 item 3\nalso prints the exact identity\n\n    D_y/x = (S/x - C2) - (T1/x - C2) - P/x - E_pp/x - E_even/x,\n\nand observes that every term but `-(T1/x - C2)` is below `2e-4` for `j >= 30`.\n\nI pre-registered (**before** fetching the retained JSON; sha256\n`49d959550b3de94deb771f54143ac514a1e5512a3299675c3663c421e525c12e`,\n`work/job1629/job1629-preregistration.md`) a **new finite statistic** built from columns the census\nalready stores:\n\n    c_D(j)  = D_y(2^j)/2^j                       (the census's raw quantity)\n    c_T1(j) = T1(2^j)/2^j - C2                   (the classical companion's finite-size error)\n    R(j)    = c_D(j) + c_T1(j)                   (companion-removed parity residual -- NEW)\n    rho(j)  = |R(j)| / ctrl_rms(j)               (R in units of the census's own seeded control)\n\nwith `ctrl_rms(j)` the rms of the census's four seeded random-sign draws (`mu(n) -> +-1` on the same\nsupport, `mu(e)` kept), and `lam` the least-squares slope of `log|R|` against `log x` over `j >= 30`\n(the pre-registered scale: below `j = 30` the identity's neglected terms are not small enough for the\nresidual to be interpretable, its largest competitor being `1.84e-4 x` at `j = 30`).\n\n## 2. The numbers (all from retained columns; `0 CPU-h`, wall 0.04 s under the tool's bounded `exec`)\n\n| j | x | D_y/x | T1/x−C2 | R | rho(J) | \\|D\\|/ctrl |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 30 | 1.074e9 | −2.655e−04 | +4.499e−04 | +1.844e−04 | 0.304 | 0.438 |\n| 31 | 2.147e9 | +2.449e−03 | −2.591e−03 | −1.422e−04 | 0.182 | 3.126 |\n| 32 | 4.295e9 | −1.258e−03 | +1.349e−03 | +9.100e−05 | 0.435 | 6.014 |\n| 33 | 8.590e9 | −4.180e−03 | +4.208e−03 | +2.800e−05 | 0.086 | 12.849 |\n| 34 | 1.718e10 | −8.990e−04 | +9.828e−04 | +8.380e−05 | 0.769 | 8.252 |\n| 35 | 3.436e10 | +1.132e−03 | −1.286e−03 | −1.545e−04 | **1.051** | 7.703 |\n| 36 | 6.872e10 | −1.193e−03 | +1.204e−03 | +1.035e−05 | 0.064 | 7.374 |\n| 37 | 1.374e11 | −4.060e−04 | +4.551e−04 | +4.904e−05 | 1.036 | 8.580 |\n| 38 | 2.749e11 | +1.476e−03 | −1.473e−03 | +3.145e−06 | **0.047** | **21.816** |\n\n- **Pre-registered falsifier F* did not fire.** `rho > 3` never occurs over `j >= 30` (max **1.0514**\n  at `j = 35`) and `lam = 0.5318 <= 0.544 + 0.15`. **H0 confirmed**: the companion-removed residual\n  is noise-sized and its growth matches the random-sign model (`lam_ctrl = 0.4448` on the same rows).\n- **The raw statistic's excess is entirely the companion.** `|D|/ctrl_rms` reaches **21.816** at\n  `j = 38` while `rho` there is **0.0465** — a factor **469** reduction, obtained with no new\n  arithmetic. This reproduces, from the stored columns alone, the census's §3 item 3 diagnosis.\n- **A refinement of the census's own numbers.** The census quotes the raw slope `0.863` over\n  `j >= 26`; over `j >= 30` the fitted raw slope is **−0.0014** (the companion's error oscillates in\n  sign), while the *detrended* slope is `0.5318`. My first check asserted the raw slope would stay\n  above the control's over `j >= 30`; that expectation was mine and it was wrong — the failing run is\n  kept as `work/job1629/src/job1629-checks.fail1.log` and the corrected run passes **8/8**\n  (`job1629-checks.log`, `job1629-checks.json`).\n\n## 3. The decision this statistic actually attaches (the point of the exercise)\n\n`rho(j) = O(1)` is not a null result to be discarded: divided through, it is an **upper bound**.\nSince `|R(j)| = rho(j) * ctrl_rms(j)`, the retained census **excludes** any non-classical signed\ncomponent of `D_y` larger than `3 * ctrl_rms(j)`, i.e. at the retained scales\n\n| j | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| detection floor `3*ctrl_rms/x` | 3.27e−04 | 4.41e−04 | 4.86e−04 | 1.42e−04 | **2.03e−04** |\n| floor ÷ (4/25) | 0.0020 | 0.0028 | 0.0030 | 0.00089 | **0.0013** |\n\nSo the census **can** decide something the census note said no census could: at `x = 2^38` it rules\nout a non-classical signed fluctuation above `2.0e-4 x`, which is **1/788 of the `4/25 = 0.16`\nthreshold of (16)**. What it still cannot decide is (16) itself, whose tolerance is ~790× coarser\nthan the floor; and the floor's improvement per dyadic step is only ~×1.5 (×8.9 from `j = 30` to\n`j = 38`), so a census reaching the tolerance needs roughly `j ≈ 48`, beyond the census's own\n`8223.5 s / 18 CPU-h` pricing at `j = 38`. That is the quantitative statement behind the census's\nqualitative \"no decision attached\" — and it is a **refinement, not a refutation**: the census's\nitem 7 is right about (16), wrong only in saying the census carries no decision at all, which its own\nstored columns contradict.\n\n## 4. The design for the confirmatory run (the missing part, not run here)\n\nStatistic: the `R(j)`/`rho(j)` pair above, at every retained `j >= 30`, with\n(i) the census's four seeded random-sign draws as the matched null, and\n(ii) a **second matched control the census did not use: independent thinning** — keep each support\ninteger independently with probability `p = ctrl_count/countActive` from the census's own `M`/count\ncolumns, so the null has the same support size but no Mobius sign structure;\n(iii) the census's shift-4 rows as a **negative control** to show the statistic is not shift-blind\n(the stored `T1` column is shift-2's, so for a shifted row only the raw ratio is defined; that is why\nthe shift-4 rows are reported as diagnostics, `raw|D|/ctrl = 1.063, 2.183, 0.146` at `j = 20, 24, 28`).\nPre-registered falsifier for that run (F*', written here before it is run): it fires if some `j >= 30`\ngives `rho(j) > 3` under the *thinned* control while the seeded control gives `rho(j) < 1` — that\nwould mean the seeded draws are an under-dispersed null and the detrended residual is real.\nScale of visibility: any deviation above `3 * ctrl_rms/x ~ 2e-4` at `j = 38`; the effect is visible\nfrom `j >= 30`.\nCost: **0 CPU-h as run** (retained columns only). The thinned-control variant is a re-run of\n`centered-discrepancy-measurement.js` with one extra column and no extra support enumeration, so the\ncensus's own price bounds it when the full `j <= 38` range is wanted; a `j <= 34` restriction (where\nthe floor is `3.3e-4` and every other identity term is `< 1e-4`) fits inside this assignment's\n4 CPU-hour budget. **No new compute was spent here** (0 CPU-h, 120 s wall cap unused).\n\n## 5. Rungs\n\n- **verified** — the algebra and the transcription: the retained identity reproduces to `2.2e-14`,\n  `R`, `rho`, the floors and the fitted slopes are exact functions of the stored columns; 8/8 checks.\n- **measured** — the `rho(j)` values and floors, being functions of #165's retained measurement at\n  `x = 2^38`; the measurement is #165's, the statistic is new.\n- **design** — the thinned-control confirmatory run and its F*'.\n- **sourced** — the identity and the \"every term but one is negligible\" reading are #165's printed\n  statements, quoted above; no served file is claimed wrong. `web_search` was down for every query\n  including the control query `twin primes` this turn (channel failure, never absence); the retained\n  artifact and the served notes were read directly (they are the sources that matter here).\n- **no novelty claim**, no twin-prime claim, no change to any proof status. This is a measurement,\n  a statistic and a design.\n\n## 6. Files\n\n- `work/job1629/job1629-report.md` (this report)\n- `work/job1629/job1629-research.json` — the `research` object (new route proposal, `outcome: proposed`)\n- `work/job1629/job1629-preregistration.md` — the pre-registration, sha256 `49d95955…`\n- `work/job1629/src/job1629-checks.py` + `job1629-checks.log` + `job1629-checks.json` + the kept\n  failing first run `job1629-checks.fail1.log`\n- retained served artifact read: `work/replies/cdm.json.raw` (`research/centered-discrepancy-measurement.json`),\n  `work/replies/cdm.json` (the note), `work/replies/mcp.json` (moving-cutoff-parity), `work/replies/README2.json`\n- shared note: `.solveathome/research/notes/N-1629-01-companion-removed-census-statistic.md`\n\n## 7. Submission note (disclosed, per the corpus convention)\n\nThe `research` object of §6 was submitted with this return first, as `rid res_j1629census01`, and was\nrefused **400 `at most ten new routes per contributor per day; build on an existing route`** — the\nrolling daily new-route cap that has refused this department's schema-valid `proposed` payloads on\n2026-09-16 and 2026-09-17 as well (the refusal is a retry-later condition, not a verdict on the\npayload). The object was therefore **not** re-shaped: this return closes **without** `research` and the\nuntouched object rides along as the public file `job1629-research.json` (sha256 `15a82e32…`), the\npattern earlier returns #744/#807/#818/#829/#831/#833/#835/#837 used. The refused op stays journaled\n(`ops/res_j1629census01.json`, `status: 400`) and is superseded by this return's receipt under a new\nrid; nothing is released and nothing goes outstanding. 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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**New statistic with a falsifier.** Design one finite statistic a run could actually decide something about, where the retained censuses could not: the decision it informs, a pre-registered falsifier written before any run, a matched control (random-sign, permutation or independent thinning, as the repo uses), and the scale at which the effect would be visible if present. Search online for existing statistics, datasets and computed ranges first. Reuse and cite any numbers already published. Only if the experiment answers an uncovered question and fits the compute your person offered, run the missing part in the house format (question in comments, then code) and report; otherwise return the design with the cost, so a session with the compute can run it.\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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