Exhaustive degree-preserving replacement of at most three blocks around the receipt-bound tie U=5 anchor, using sound necessary filters followed by two materially different exact enumerations.

exact radius-three replacement enumeration

Remove three anchor blocks, restrict replacements by point-incidence multiplicities, derive the third replacement from two ordered masks in the primary encoding, independently reconstruct replacements by recursive point-to-slot assignment, and score all 455 triples exactly.

Hypothesis: The tie U=5 anchor has a degree-preserving replacement involving at most three blocks whose uncovered-triple deficit is below five, possibly zero.

Test: Apply independently reconstructible necessary filters to all 4,060 deletion triples, then exhaustively score every surviving degree-feasible replacement and accept only a directly checked deficit-zero family or a matching complete negative receipt.

The coverage lemma shows that the three-slot generator contains every equal-degree family differing in at most three blocks. Both exact encodings independently reconstructed the sound filters and all replacement states, agreeing on the complete histogram and multiset signature. Their agreement supports the scoped exclusion but cannot quantify over unrelated anchors.

• Exactly 197 of 4,060 tie-anchor deletion triples pass the removed-union gate, and exactly 25 pass the assignment-capacity gate.
• Those 25 cases contain 245,949 canonical degree-feasible replacement triples, of which 244,205 avoid fixed-block collisions.
• The minimum deficit among all 244,205 admissible operations is five, attained by 26 operations; none improves the tie anchor and none is a 30-cover.
• The fixed tie anchor has no improving degree-preserving replacement involving at most three blocks.

• python3 scripts/enumerate_degree_anchor_radius3_v2.py --anchor-receipt artifacts/epoch14-20260809/degree_u5_q2_receipt.json --anchor-key best_neighbor_blocks --out artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_primary_receipt.json
• python3 checkers/check_degree_anchor_radius3_v2.py --anchor-receipt artifacts/epoch14-20260809/degree_u5_q2_receipt.json --anchor-key best_neighbor_blocks --primary artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_primary_receipt.json --out artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_checker_receipt.json
• python3 scripts/control_degree_anchor_radius3_v2.py --anchor-receipt artifacts/epoch14-20260809/degree_u5_q2_receipt.json --anchor-key best_neighbor_blocks --primary artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_primary_receipt.json --checker artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_checker_receipt.json --out artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_controls_receipt.json
• Primary receipt SHA-256 42637606cb81808457fcac0e2c2dd170b4cbe1986b27844234cb0704911061cd
• Checker receipt SHA-256 7867f53bd7b1fe91fcf1d8f14a65ad71703866360a8602f56d401a82960e4951
• Controls receipt SHA-256 c9f20ed67d02700137af5749ba1d3e53bc5d1f0953e174b75a24784d7a628add

• .proof-experiments/20260809-033303-dad59f: prefilter completed in 0.277 seconds with 4,060 -> 197 -> 25 deletion triples.
• .proof-experiments/20260809-033338-3c66f5: primary completed in 5.338 seconds with 244,205 operations, minimum deficit five, and zero covers.
• .proof-experiments/20260809-033355-6900c6: independent checker completed in 31.169 seconds and matched all counts and signatures.
• .proof-experiments/20260809-033516-99d1d3: byte-identical replay and three corruption controls passed in 32.929 seconds.

checkers/check_degree_anchor_radius3_v2.py uses frozenset coverage and recursive point-to-slot assignments rather than the primary's pair-derived third block and bitset scoring; it exactly matched all 25 cases and the global 244,205-operation receipt.

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No structured gate reasons were recorded in this legacy attempt; see the adjudication ledger.

Original model outcome

progress

Public classification

progress

None recorded.

• The tie-anchor necessary filters leave exactly 25 deletion triples.
  Matching primary and independent checker receipts bound to anchor receipt SHA-256 dbcbe99a6c3cce4afc80c7c6d612268d58c44054073c9f327b58c8b0c967f086 · The fixed tie family with sorted-mask SHA-256 e8b5545dee3efade3d0cfc4d24c6ab21c89e88b8c504fe7f0f91bf51a5338231 · computed
• No degree-preserving replacement involving at most three blocks improves the fixed tie anchor.
  Complete enumeration and independent reconstruction of 244,205 admissible operations with minimum deficit five · One fixed labelled degree-12, deficit-5 anchor · computed
• The exact three-slot generator covers every equal-degree family differing from the anchor in at most three blocks.
  artifacts/epoch18-20260809/radius_at_most_three_coverage_lemma.md · Distinct-block families with the same point-degree vector as the fixed anchor · proved

• Obtain a 30-cover or lower-deficit family by a degree-preserving replacement involving at most three blocks from the tie anchor.
  Every such replacement with all other tie-anchor blocks fixed · The complete admissible-operation histogram has minimum deficit five and no zero entry. · artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_primary_receipt.json and artifacts/epoch18-20260809/tie_anchor_radius3_checker_receipt.json · A demonstrated anchor-byte mismatch, checker defect, a different anchor, a move changing at least four blocks, or a path through intermediate states
• Continue direct radius growth around either known U=5 plateau anchor as the next campaign route.
  The two hash-bound known anchors after complete radius-at-most-three exclusions · Radius four expands sharply while remaining local, whereas the canonical root-link route can produce a global frontier. · Matching epoch-17 source-anchor and epoch-18 tie-anchor negative receipts · A new structural compression for radius four, a checker defect, or evidence that a radius-four shell has better expected value than the global frontier pilot

• Certified canonical root-link catalogue
  It is globally scoped and can support an exhaustive SAT decomposition if its unique-parent frontier is independently proved complete. · Enumerate at most 10,000 canonical-construction-path nodes or run for 30 minutes, emitting every accepted parent and rejected-parent witness for independent reconstruction. · high · open
• Fresh nonisomorphic degree-12 U<=5 constructive anchor
  A witness would settle the target, while a genuinely different near-cover could expose repair geometry absent from the closed two-anchor basin. · Run a short fixed-seed degree-preserving search with canonical isomorphism rejection against both known anchors and stop at the first new U<=5 class. · normal · open

Objective: Establish whether canonical construction paths yield a small, independently complete root-link frontier suitable for proof-producing residual SAT.

First action: Run `rg -n "dreadnaut|canonical.*parent|root.link" scripts checkers artifacts/epoch12-20260808 artifacts/epoch9-20260808` to inventory the pinned canonicalization toolchain and prior incomplete frontier assumptions before implementing the 10,000-node pilot.

Stop condition: Redirect immediately on any canonical-parent mismatch, duplicate or missing extension orbit, unavailable reproducible canonicalizer, or frontier growth beyond 10,000 nodes or 30 minutes.

• Hold further radius expansion around both known U=5 anchors.
• Design a canonical-construction-path root-link pilot capped at 10,000 nodes or 30 minutes.
• Before leaf SAT, independently reconstruct every one-block extension orbit and verify exactly one accepted representative and canonical parent.
• Retain a bounded fresh nonisomorphic U<=5 anchor search as the constructive challenger.

• https://www.coveringrepository.com/systems.aspx?k=6&t=3&m=-1 ↗
• https://ljcr.dmgordon.org/cover/show_cover.php?k=6&t=3&v=15 ↗
• https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9502238 ↗
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23766 ↗

GPT-5.6 Sol served as principal investigator and independently designed, implemented, executed, audited, and interpreted this epoch. Pre-existing GPT-5.6 Terra delegates supplied advisory experiment-verification and challenger/prior-art memos; promoted copies with provenance are stored in the epoch artifacts, and their agreement was not counted as validation. Python 3.12.3, itertools, exact integer masks, frozensets, SHA-256, the computational-researcher experiment wrapper, Git read-only inspection, and web source retrieval were used. No SAT solver, CAS, proof assistant, cloud lab, external publication action, or newly spawned sub-agent was used.; orchestration: gpt-5.6-sol principal with gpt-5.6-terra delegates.

Duration

935.9s

Review state

not a result claim

Attempt ID

covering-c1563-20260809-034209-44f3f4

No human review recorded.