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2026-08-09 05:37 UTCgpt-5.6-sol · high

Enumerated all S2 x S3-canonical type-4 internal-excess vectors, tested exact weighted-degree-two skeleton feasibility, then coupled the five fixed roots through exact-capacity residual intersection-feature counts after the required 53-to-49 subtraction.

Progress

The canonical type-4 projection contains 1176 possible internal-excess vectors. The producer reported 395 skeleton-feasible vectors, and every one has both a full skeleton witness and a simultaneous exact-capacity aggregate feature witness accepted by an independent checker. Since 395 exceeds the 117-vector promotion threshold, no SAT leaves were generated. The producer's 781 negative skeleton statuses were not promoted because this epoch did not independently certify them.

Strategy and discriminator

stabilizer-canonical skeleton-compatible signature frontier

Project pair-excess skeletons to five fixed-root internal sums and compress 2717 residual blocks into 185 joint intersection feature types with exact capacities.

Hypothesis: Skeleton compatibility plus simultaneous five-root residual-profile coupling retains at most 117 of the 1176 canonical internal-excess vectors.

Test: Count independently witnessed survivors; 117 or fewer promotes SAT-leaf generation, while more than 117 redirects the route.

Rationale

The redirect depends only on positive evidence: 395 distinct checked survivors already exceed the threshold. Therefore no trust in solver UNSAT statuses is needed to reject scale-up of this coarse relaxation.

Claims requiring scrutiny
  • At least 395 distinct S2 x S3-canonical type-4 internal-excess vectors admit full weighted-degree-two skeleton witnesses.
  • The same 395 vectors admit simultaneous 49-block aggregate intersection-feature witnesses respecting exact feature capacities and the fixed 53-to-49 subtraction.
  • This relaxation cannot meet the predeclared at-most-117 survivor threshold.
Evidence and scope
  • Producer experiment 20260809-052822-f7124e returned 395 skeleton and 395 aggregate witnesses.
  • Independent experiment 20260809-052853-53bec2 reconstructed and accepted all 790 positive witnesses.
  • Experiment 20260809-052943-7a7887 produced byte-identical regeneration and rejected five semantic/input mutations.
  • sha256sum -c artifacts/type4-signature-frontier-20260809/manifest.sha256 passed for every listed file.
Computational experiments
  • .proof-experiments/20260809-052822-f7124e: 1176 canonical vectors, 395 skeleton witnesses, 395 aggregate witnesses
  • .proof-experiments/20260809-052853-53bec2: independent acceptance of all positive witnesses
  • .proof-experiments/20260809-052943-7a7887: byte-identical regeneration and six passing controls
Independent checker

checkers/check_type4_signature_frontier_v1.py independently reconstructs the canonical domain, common blocks, subtraction histograms, 2717-block universe, 185 feature capacities, and every positive witness. It intentionally does not certify producer UNSAT statuses.

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
  • Multiway contingency-table margins -> compress residual blocks by five-root intersection vectors -> all 395 positively witnessed skeleton signatures remained feasible, so margins alone are too weak.
  • Graph-component projection -> replace labelled degree-two skeletons by five internal-excess sums -> produced a cheap exact route gate but discarded too much literal pair information.
Established facts
  • At least 395 distinct canonical type-4 signatures have full weighted-degree-two skeleton extensions.
    395 explicit 105-edge witnesses accepted by independent-check.json · Type-4 internal-excess projection · computed
  • Each of those 395 signatures has a simultaneous exact-capacity aggregate residual-feature witness of total size 49.
    395 sparse feature-count witnesses accepted by independent-check.json · Five-root intersection relaxation only · computed
  • The fixed-family subtraction histograms are [0,0,3,0,1]^2 and [0,0,4,0,0]^3.
    Direct intersections among the five fixed common blocks · Recorded canonical type-4 common family · proved
Ruled out in this epoch
  • Generate type-4 SAT leaves using only internal-excess vectors and five intersection-size margins.
    The exact recorded type-4 family and necessary relaxation. · At least 395 canonical signatures survive, above the 117-signature threshold, and the margin layer rejected none of the independently witnessed skeleton signatures. · independent-check.json and mutation-controls.json · Add independently checkable coverage-aware or literal pair-identity information with a projected frontier below 395.
Open leads
  • Degree-and-pair-preserving constructive trade search.
    A witness directly settles the target and the route is materially distinct from repeated exact-feasibility solving. · Matched seeded comparison against unconstrained swaps using exact uncovered-triple defect. · high · open
  • Coverage-aware type-4 signature refinement.
    The failed margin layer identifies missing literal pair and triple compatibility as the relevant information. · Derive one cheap triple-coverage signature and measure its rejection count on the 395 checked survivors. · normal · open
Continuation checkpoint

Objective: Determine whether exact degree-and-pair-preserving trades materially improve constructive search.

First action: Implement a seeded incremental trade kernel and an unconstrained-swap control with identical evaluation budgets.

Stop condition: Promote any directly checked 54-cover; continue only on reproducible defect improvement, otherwise redirect after all matched seeds tie or lose.

Next moves
  • Implement the deterministic degree-and-pair-preserving trade pilot.
  • Compare it against unconstrained block swaps under identical seeds and evaluation budgets.
  • Directly check any 54-block candidate against all 455 triples.
  • Reopen signature filtering only with literal pair identities or a coverage-aware invariant projected to beat 395 survivors.
Tool disclosure

GPT-5.6 Sol served as principal investigator and independently designed, implemented, audited, and interpreted the epoch. GPT-5.6 Terra delegates supplied bounded advisory reconnaissance; the relied-upon memo was promoted with provenance and model agreement was not treated as validation. Deterministic Python 3.12.3 and Z3 4.13.0 produced exact integer witnesses. A separately written Python checker validated every promoted positive claim, and a mutation harness tested fail-closed behavior. No SAT solver, proof assistant, or CAS was used for the promoted claim.; orchestration: gpt-5.6-sol principal with gpt-5.6-terra delegates.

Duration
1414.6s
Review state
not a result claim
Attempt ID
covering-c1553-20260809-053756-3db159
Human review ledger

No human review recorded.