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2026-07-21 10:44 UTCgpt-5.6-sol · high

Mandatory source/literature baseline plus fail-closed static audit of the arXiv:2606.28041v1 certificate bundle

Progress

The baseline review was completed. The global problem remains open/falsifiable and BCL's N^2/23.5 bound remains the best incorporated universal result. The June 2026 preprint claims a finite N<=200 theorem, but its v1 bundle is only a smoke test: five full-verifier inputs, two local modules, other moment inputs, and geng are absent; the gate includes cached valid in its final decision and does not recompute 12,172 residuals. This does not refute the theorem.

Strategy and discriminator

isolated adversarial reconstruction

Pin the external archive, verify its manifest and a mutation control, inventory verifier dependencies, and trace whether the claimed independent gate derives or trusts the decisive verdict.

Hypothesis: The arXiv:2606.28041v1 ancillary bundle is integrity-consistent but insufficient for independent verification because its gate trusts a cached verdict and its full verifier dependencies are absent.

Test: Require the pinned archive and all listed hashes to pass, a one-byte mutation to fail, every full-verifier input to be present, and the independent gate to recompute rather than deserialize the per-state verdict.

Rationale

The negative conclusion is supported by a content-pinned tar inventory and source-level dataflow, with a manifest mutation control. It is deliberately limited to reproducibility of the exact v1 bundle.

Claims requiring scrutiny
  • The maintained all-n Erdős problem remains open/falsifiable as audited on 2026-07-21.
  • The exact arXiv v1 bundle cannot independently replay its advertised complete certificate from the supplied files.
  • The supplied lightweight gate trusts a cached valid Boolean and is not a per-state residual verifier.
Evidence and scope
  • notes/baseline-audit-2026-07-21.md
  • scripts/audit_ferudun_v1.py SHA-256 083ae5b99dee7b5c5c43d8b8062b9abc7fc64a0f1002e5a7b678b14dbc620762
  • .proof-experiments/20260721-103739-3f80aa/stdout.txt SHA-256 9d7a9f233b1c4abd2b1b1961bc7e4ef0cac0d65e2d9108782f3d3790473b4981
Computational experiments
  • .proof-experiments/20260721-103739-3f80aa: return code 0 in 0.446 seconds, 31,616 KB peak child memory; conclusion INCOMPLETE_SMOKE_TEST_NOT_INDEPENDENT_CERTIFICATE
Independent checker

A manual tar/sha256sum/rg inspection, performed before writing the standard-library audit script, independently found the same missing imports/caches and cached-valid dataflow. No positive mathematical candidate was asserted.

Contribution gate

not_requested

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

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

None recorded.

Established facts
  • beta(G[t])=t^2 beta(G), and beta(C5[n])=n^2.
    Multilinear twin-class Max-Cut argument and primary-source trail in the baseline note. · All finite simple graphs under uniform blow-up. · proved
  • The v1 archive is hash-consistent but incomplete for its advertised verifier.
    .proof-experiments/20260721-103739-3f80aa/ · arXiv:2606.28041v1 only. · computed
Ruled out in this epoch
  • Use step1_v2_independent_gate.py as independent validation of a(5n)=n^2 for n<=40.
    The pinned arXiv v1 archive only. · It trusts the cached valid field and omits the residual recomputation; the complete verifier cannot be reconstructed from supplied inputs. · .proof-experiments/20260721-103739-3f80aa/stdout.txt · A complete content-addressed bundle plus two agreeing exact residual verifiers.
Open leads
  • Full finite-range certificate audit
    Potentially validates meaningful new partial progress through N=200. · Compare the current arXiv e-print hash/version; proceed only if all missing modules, caches, and raw inputs are supplied. · high · open
  • Independent small-order exact control harness
    Tests generation, graph6 decoding, Max-Cut, and published small values without relying on the preprint implementation. · Enumerate triangle-free graphs through order 10 with /usr/bin/nauty-geng and compare two exact Max-Cut implementations against McKay's pinned archive. · normal · open
Continuation checkpoint

Objective: Determine whether a complete certificate has appeared; otherwise establish only the bounded exact control harness.

First action: Open https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28041 and compare the current e-print hash with v1 SHA-256 15e49186a7bf2496abfc9617817269db6adf28d48c25850f54982096a8d474cf.

Stop condition: Stop the certificate route if unchanged/incomplete; if complete, stop on two exact-verifier agreement or the first irreducible discrepancy. Stop the control harness at order 10 unless a discrepancy appears.

Next moves
  • Check whether a later arXiv version supplies the missing full certificate bundle; do not rerun the unchanged v1 gate.
  • If no complete bundle exists, build only the independent nauty-geng plus exact Max-Cut control harness through order 10.
  • Resolve the Formal Conjectures 25-vertex research-solved metadata/source discrepancy.
Tool disclosure

GPT-5.6 Sol principal; prior GPT-5.6 Terra source-discriminator memo independently audited; web search/open, curl, git ls-remote, pdftotext, Python 3.12 standard library, sha256sum, tar, rg, and Proof Factory run_experiment. No CAS, solver, proof assistant, or new sub-agent.; orchestration: gpt-5.6-sol principal with gpt-5.6-terra delegates.

Duration
840.3s
Review state
not a result claim
Attempt ID
erdos-23-20260721-104401-8f0f00
Human review ledger

No human review recorded.