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2026-08-11 08:20 UTCgpt-5.6-sol · high

Hash-bound syntactic dominance audit joining four dual-replayed fixed-link equality predicates to the exactly-owned fixed-first 249-profile frontier.

No Progress

The solver-free cross-artifact dominance gate redirected. Independent reconstruction found 249 unique fixed-first owners and four valid terminal fixed-link predicates, but their raw bases differ. Consequently none of 996 pairs licensed implication, no live owner was eliminated, and the maintained range remains 30 <= C(15,6,3) <= 31.

Research-policy redirect

Evidence receipt creation failed; durable progress is withheld.

Strategy and discriminator

cross-artifact syntactic proof-scope dominance audit

Bucket candidate implications by reconstructed raw-base CNF SHA-256, then permit elimination only when bases are identical and the owner's exact target map contains every terminal predicate key/value.

Hypothesis: At least one whole live owner in the exact 249-profile frontier is syntactically dominated by a dual-replayed fixed-link equality predicate with an identical raw base CNF.

Test: Check all 249 x 4 owner/predicate pairs for raw-base SHA-256 identity before exact predicate-map inclusion; advance only if at least one previously live whole owner is eliminated.

Rationale

Raw-base identity was a predeclared necessary condition for safe syntactic proof reuse. Its failure on every pair, independently reproduced with intact proof replay and mutation controls, closes this mechanism without supporting any mathematical exclusion.

Claims requiring scrutiny
  • The four audited fixed-link terminal formulas have a common reconstructed 6,725-variable, 28,552-clause raw base with SHA-256 1a6a0124e4a77d896c92198678671784495dfa1164a5169c862a127c5ca9183f.
  • The exact fixed-first profile frontier contains 249 unique owners, of which 248 remain live.
  • None of the 996 audited owner/predicate pairs shares an identical raw base; therefore none is eliminated by the declared syntactic dominance rule.
  • No 30-block cover or exhaustive exclusion was produced.
Evidence and scope
  • python3 scripts/audit_fixed_first_dominance_v1.py --out-dir artifacts/epoch80-20260811/fixed-first-dominance-v1
  • python3 checkers/check_fixed_first_dominance_v1.py --artifact-dir artifacts/epoch80-20260811/fixed-first-dominance-v1 --out artifacts/epoch80-20260811/fixed-first-dominance-v1/independent-check.json
  • A complete checker rerun produced byte-identical SHA-256 373619aac4f15f9c4a2fd76c339faf7812fb6daf7ef3da82c87258b4523dce00.
  • Fresh lrat-check and CakeLPR builds accepted all four intact proofs and both rejected every final-line deletion.
Computational experiments
  • .proof-experiments/20260811-081231-a49aeb: primary manifest built in 0.223 seconds; 996 pairs, zero identical bases, zero eliminations.
  • .proof-experiments/20260811-081243-1dc7c8: independent audit passed in 12.467 seconds with four dual replays and five rejected mutations.
  • .proof-experiments/20260811-081528-fbb27f: complete checker rerun passed and was byte-identical.
Independent checker

checkers/check_fixed_first_dominance_v1.py uses an independent stars-and-bars profile enumeration and token-stream DIMACS parser, compiles lrat-check and CakeLPR once, replays four proofs, tests four truncations, and rejects five semantic mutations.

Contribution gate

not_requested

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

Original model outcome
no_progress
Public classification
no_progress
Cross-domain transfers tested

None recorded.

Established facts
  • Exactly 249 necessary fixed-first arithmetic profiles are reconstructed, with 249 unique canonical owners and 248 live owners.
    Independent enumeration of all 278,256 weak six-part compositions. · Simple normalized 30-cover models represented by the hash-bound fixed-first incidence CNF. · computed
  • The four terminal fixed-link formulas share one reconstructed raw base distinct from the fixed-first shared formula.
    Four independent prefix reconstructions and SHA-256 comparison. · The audited epoch-72--74 terminal lineage. · computed
  • All four retained terminal LRATs remain valid under fresh dual replay.
    lrat-check and CakeLPR accepted every intact proof and rejected every final-line deletion. · The four exact hash-bound local CNFs only. · computed
Ruled out in this epoch
  • Reuse the audited fixed-link terminal LRATs to eliminate whole fixed-first owners solely by raw-base identity and exact-map inclusion.
    All 249 fixed-first owners against four epoch-72--74 terminal predicates. · All 996 candidate pairs have different raw-base hashes. · manifest.json and two byte-identical independent-check receipts · A proved and independently checked semantic translation mapping a fixed-link equality cylinder to an exact union of whole fixed-first owners.
  • Launch a ceremonial direct-LRAT owned leaf after this accounting gate.
    The current unchanged proof-production mechanism. · The predeclared gate required at least one newly eliminated live owner and produced zero. · gate_decision REDIRECT in the primary manifest · A material encoding or proof-emission improvement passing its own bounded calibration.
Open leads
  • Double-lex fixed-first incidence symmetry breaking
    Residual columns are already lex sorted, but the remaining S6 x S9 point stabilizer is not globally broken; a double-lex representative exists in every finite row/column orbit. · Compile adjacent row-lex comparators and compare independently audited one-round preprocessing dimensions against the epoch-7 base. · high · open
  • Semantic fixed-link-to-profile bridge
    This is the only reopen path for reusing the existing local LRATs across encodings. · State a precise model map and test it on all 249 owners; reject immediately if any cylinder cuts through rather than unions whole owners. · low · open
Continuation checkpoint

Objective: Determine whether double-lex point-symmetry breaking materially compresses the proof-oriented fixed-first incidence encoding.

First action: Implement scripts/incidence_doublelex_preprocess_v1.py against artifacts/epoch7-20260808/incidence-matrix-pilot-v1/incidence-matrix.cnf and independently reconstruct its S6 and S9 adjacent row comparators.

Stop condition: Redirect on a double-lex soundness failure, checker disagreement, or less than 5% improvement in both post-preprocessing variables and clauses.

Next moves
  • Implement a double-lex fixed-first incidence compiler that adds row ordering within the S6 and S9 stabilizer cells.
  • Independently prove the finite-orbit double-lex existence lemma and reconstruct every comparator.
  • Compare one-round pinned CaDiCaL preprocessing against the epoch-7 base and stop below a 5% variable-and-clause reduction.
  • Keep the raw-base reuse route closed absent a proved semantic translation.
Tool disclosure

GPT-5.6 Sol acted as principal investigator. GPT-5.6 Terra challenger-prior-art and experiment-verification delegates supplied advisory memos only; Sol independently audited every relied-on claim and promoted provenance into the main workspace. Python 3.12.3 generated and checked manifests. Fresh GCC builds of lrat-check and CakeLPR replayed LRAT proofs. Web search checked the maintained repository and literature status. No CAS, proof assistant, SAT solving, cloud lab, or human validator produced a new mathematical result this epoch.; orchestration: gpt-5.6-sol principal with gpt-5.6-terra delegates.

Duration
1166.9s
Review state
not a result claim
Attempt ID
covering-c1563-20260811-082036-12cad3
Human review ledger

No human review recorded.