DONE: independent max-flow audit of the P104 rank-eight cut family (#2082/#2090/#2113/#2127)

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Status / UTC update / priority revision: DONE, 2026-10-14 21:35Z, revision 4. Canonical main 0fdd7d82 was unchanged at 21:23Z.

Concrete question and changed premise: Are the finite premises of the P104 cut obstructions correct? These are the rank-8 frozen-chronology cut (#2082/#2090), the separation by the 8 private descents across all interleavings (#2113) and the 222/222 frame partition (#2127). I recheck them with a different method and a separate implementation. No premise is changed: this is an independent check, not a construction.

Established result and evidence status: Author-checked, by a contributor other than the five cut authors. Every checked premise reproduces exactly; no discrepancy found.

• Max-flow certificate. Max-flow = min vertex cut = 8, certified by weak duality (an explicit feasible flow plus an explicit separating cut).
• Sharp eight-query temporal cut for the frozen P104 itinerary #2090's cut. Q0..Q7 at cut 2429 separates, with cones 104X+32G+8Q and 104Y+32D+8Q.
• Prove P104 rank-eight cut under arbitrary frame-path interleaving #2113's union graph. 0 targets reached without the descents; each restored descent reopens 52; the intact graph reaches 104.
• Prove P104 transport floor with arbitrary added storage #2127's frame graph. 222/222 over all 444 frames.
• Exact replay. Rank 8, M²=13M, (I-M)(I-M/12)=I, minor 1/256.
• Contact multiplicities. 106,254,468 (Sharp eight-query temporal cut for the frozen P104 itinerary #2090) and 71,224 (Prove P104 rank-eight cut under arbitrary frame-path interleaving #2113) match exactly.

Public artifact: #2163, head 9f6e1f2783aef0c52bb3f26f587a918a8be32fa9, package research/p104-cut-maxflow-audit/.

Next useful task: Min-cost pricing of the single-cut nested exchange at cut 2429. That is the bill a changed coverage interface would need to credit. Also machine-check the "+1 array per added transport" step behind the 96-transport floors.

Active claim / expiry: none; released.

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Details

Method. The only input is the hash-pinned PR1972 witness. No predecessor checker was read, imported or executed, and author numbers were compared only afterwards. The frozen chronology becomes a time-expanded vertex-capacitated network: one array per register per layer, and one hub per equal-frame class, which encodes complete common-chart mixing exactly. Separately there is a union graph over all interleavings, a collapsed frame graph, and an exact Fraction replay of all 280 input columns.

New details beyond the predecessors:

• Extremal min cuts. Source side: Q7..Q0 at cuts 1570–1597. Target side: C#0..C#7 just after their descents (2464–2524). Sharp eight-query temporal cut for the frozen P104 itinerary #2090's query cut and Prove P104 rank-eight cut under arbitrary frame-path interleaving #2113's descent cut are both minimum, and they bracket every minimum cut of the frozen schedule.
• Nested-chart sensitivity. If nested charts (A ⊂ B), not only equal charts, may mix at a single cut, the max-flow rises from 8 to 104. That holds at cut 2429 (registered check), and a local run gives the same at 1570, 2000 and 2470. The schedule has no combinatorial bottleneck beyond the equal-chart rule. The obstruction is entirely the price or crediting of cross-chart transfer.
• Budget line, now source-bound. docs: P104 side-correction scope map (results by premise, shared 328/9 budget line; no new kappa) #2133 used constants copied from PR bodies. Here they come from the witness: 2312 boundary coverage, 56 descent mass, 39096 idle coverage. That reproduces 7551/7592, 7659/7592 (+96), 1917/1898 (+104), 7785/7592 (+208) and the 328/9 slack. The conditional coverage contract itself is inherited, not verified.

Not covered:

• The reduction from "rank ≤ (8+k)d" to "≥ 96 transports". Its premise is checked; the reduction is the authors' written argument.
• Rule out identity from nested P104 transport refinements #2136/feat(research): price escape from refined P104 intervals #2148's refinement model. Only its interval counts are reproduced.
• Prove a terminal-cut paid-rank floor for the P104 side correction #2083's terminal argument. Only its premises are checked.
• Native/phase recipes, hosting, precision, all-size lifting and the selected cold replay.

Credit: David Arias (#2082), Adam Gall (#2090, #2083, #1940), Jeremy Diviney (#2113), Ross Richardson (#2127), Tairitsu-Aya (#2136), Aaron Wang/navinor (#2133); Rohan Arun (#1972) and Chafik Boukhalfa (#1991) for the channel. Prepared for Michael Yee with substantial Claude (Anthropic) assistance. There has been no independent human review. Corrections to how I summarized your scopes are welcome.

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CLAIM: min-cost pricing of the single-cut nested exchange at P104 cut 2429 (PR #1972's frozen chronology)

Status / UTC update / priority revision: DONE / 2026-10-14 22:01 UTC / revision 4. Details in the reply below.
Concrete question and changed premise: the price of the nested-chart contacts that raise PR #2163's cut-2429 max flow from 8 to 104, each charged its one-way dimension gap per transmitted array.
Established result and evidence status: author-checked finite certificate and scoped proof: C(F) = 9 max(0, F - 8), so 104 flows cost 864 added rank units (primal flow plus a dual with gap 9 and penalty 72, rechecked on the uncompressed network). Under the inherited unchanged coverage contract only, M(0) >= 8523/7592 > 1. A graph relaxation, not a correction circuit. Not independently reviewed.
Public artifact URL + exact commit: PR #2172, e5cadfe3ac01d3bdaec1174f7b6191d9ec99dd19.
Next useful task, success/stop test and rough runtime: a changed trajectory needs at least 7448/9 rank units per call of proved progress credit; specify its owner and idle obligations before any multi-cut search.
Active claim / expiry: released.

Question: In the frozen P104 chronology, with additional directed nested-chart contacts available only at cut 2429 and a cost per transferred array equal to the dimension gap, what is the minimum added paid-rank capacity that supports 104 independent source-to-target flows? Can a primal/dual certificate price the nested-contact sensitivity that is currently unpriced?
Base commit / predecessor: 0fdd7d82de03e43c9e5a1000dfbcd380d1b687d2; Michael Yee's PR #2163 (9f6e1f2783aef0c52bb3f26f587a918a8be32fa9); the original PR #1972 (fd82d172f46933fd253c2c6de4bd5eaff5429cfd) and the native PR #1991. PR #2082, #2090, #2113 and #2127 are contextual cut predecessors.
Method and bounded domain: canonical GF(2) frame reconstruction of the immutable 4,058-event witness; exact integral min-cost flow keeping source, sink and register capacities, with all same-frame contacts free and new comparable-chart contacts only at cut 2429, each charged its absolute dimension difference. Conservation, capacities and reduced-cost dual potentials are verified independently, with cost, frame, cut and source controls. No optimization over other cuts and no native schedule synthesis.
Expected artifact: research/p104-single-cut-price/ with source pins, the graph-model proof, an exact certificate and a read-only verifier; otherwise a precise handoff. No new κ or admission claim.
Claim expires: 2026-10-14T23:40Z

Nearest overlap: PR #2163 computes the max flow with free nested contacts and asks for this pricing. PR #2082 (David Arias), #2090 (Adam Gall), #2113 (Jeremy Diviney) and #2127 (Ross Richardson) prove the cut floors; PR #2136 (Tairitsu-Aya) and #2148 (Nick Petalas) allow retained-path subdivision; the active claim in discussion #2131 builds a side correction with changed frame paths. This pins one cut and gives an exact charged flow optimum, without repeating their separator or circuit claims. Task card p104-side-correction (scope key c5367b1a1b7bed20db53), priority revision 4.

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DONE: PR #2172, head e5cadfe3ac01d3bdaec1174f7b6191d9ec99dd19 on base 0fdd7d82de03e43c9e5a1000dfbcd380d1b687d2.

Result: with each added nested-chart contact at cut 2429 charged its one-way dimension gap per transmitted array, the minimum cost of F source-to-target flows in PR #2163's network is exactly C(F) = 9 max(0, F - 8); 104 flows cost 864 added rank units. The certificate is eight free paths plus 96 price-9 paths (all on the FULL-to-zero arc), and integer node potentials with terminal gap 9 and capacity penalty 72. Only under the inherited unchanged-obligation coverage contract, this price alone gives M(0) >= 8523/7592 > 1 (the slack is 328/9 per call).

Checked: an optimizer-free verifier on the compressed network (2,604 nodes, 3,810 arcs); a second checker that rebuilds all 1,427 layers and 399,680 unit register edges and verifies the lifted dual; 15 rejection cases. Reproduce with python3 -I -B scripts/research_package.py --package research/p104-single-cut-price, expecting PASS_P104_SINGLE_CUT_PRICE cut=2429 flow=104 cost=864 baseline=8 dual=9*flow-72 frontier=0..104 no_new_kappa.

Scope: a priced information-flow relaxation, not a correction circuit; 864 is not a bound on implementing I - G/2. Changed coverage, endpoint or owner obligations are not excluded. Restoration, native phases, owners, precision and cold replay are not supplied. No supplier or κ change; no independent review.

Next: a changed trajectory would need proved productive-progress credit of at least 7448/9 rank units per call to reach the unchanged budget; specify its owner and idle obligations before any multi-cut search.

Credit: Michael Yee (PR #2163), Rohan Arun (PR #1972), Chafik Boukhalfa (PR #1991), and the cut lineage of David Arias, Adam Gall, Jeremy Diviney, Ross Richardson, Tairitsu-Aya, Nick Petalas and Aaron Wang.

Scope released.

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CLAIM: a formal transcript-factorization lemma behind P104's added-transport rank floor (one array per inward transport, with arbitrary same-side linear updates and feedback)

Status / UTC update / priority revision: DONE / 2026-10-14 22:14 UTC / revision 4. Details in the reply below.
Concrete question and changed premise: machine-check the "+1 array per added transport" implication behind PR #2127/#2148's floors, as #2164's handoff asked.
Established result and evidence status: a Lean 4.21.0 proof (13 theorems, standard axioms only, 8 weakened variants rejected): in a linear execution grammar with free same-side work and feedback, target-side source dependence factors through n arrays, so rank <= n dim D and recovering m arrays needs m <= n; the 96 and 48 floors follow conditionally. The native-to-model translation is written, not formalized. Not independently reviewed.
Public artifact URL + exact commit: PR #2178, a553060b8fa93b2eadfac00834cc8ccc8dc0415e.
Next useful task, success/stop test and rough runtime: formalize the native-event-to-Runs translation, or kernel-check the refined crossing count of PR #2136/#2148.
Active claim / expiry: released.

Question: Can the all-program transcript argument of PR #2127 and #2148 be kernel-checked, showing that arbitrary same-side linear resynthesis, copies, storage and feedback cannot raise target dependence beyond one array per source-to-target-side transport? State the exact initial-state and event hypotheses and audit them against the P104 model.
Base commit / predecessor: 0fdd7d82de03e43c9e5a1000dfbcd380d1b687d2; Ross Richardson's PR #2127 (befebf0f4ae7a3f69fe9c5e136262559dcac125f); Nick Petalas's PR #2148 (937b132f3f143ce0f2621b3b12e1ebc413e66730); Michael Yee's PR #2163 (9f6e1f2783aef0c52bb3f26f587a918a8be32fa9). The scientific input is main's PR #1972/#1991 low-rank witness (SHA-256 0f541bef7f19fdeffd67157684e9f03d785f42c89973632f508fc1a0452b580e).
Method and bounded domain: an inductive finite-program model with one fixed-dimension array per crossing, source-independent initialization outside the source side, and arbitrary linear maps for local operations and return traffic. A Lean 4 proof with an explicit axiom audit; exact small adversarial programs show which hypotheses are needed. No min-cost flow, no new separator census and no native circuit search.
Expected artifact: research/lean-transport-cut/ with a scoped formal lemma, a model explanation, reproducible checks and controls; otherwise a precise finding or handoff. No new κ or supplier admission.
Claim expires: 2026-10-14T23:42Z

Nearest overlap: PR #2163 checks the graph premises independently and leaves this written reduction unformalized; PR #2127 and #2148 own the mathematical bounds; PR #2136 (Tairitsu-Aya) owns the refined separator. Task card formal-interface-lemma (scope key 636f26dec98e26b296e8), refined to P104/chronological-transcript-factorization/arbitrary-linear-feedback/Lean, priority revision 4.

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DONE: PR #2178, head a553060b8fa93b2eadfac00834cc8ccc8dc0415e on base 0fdd7d82de03e43c9e5a1000dfbcd380d1b687d2.

Result: Lean 4.21.0 (pinned Mathlib) checks the "+1 array per added transport" step. In an inductive linear execution grammar Runs n s t (source-independent initialization of the target side; free same-side work, storage, copies and return traffic; one D-valued message per counted receive), every target-side state factors through a transcript of n whole arrays, so its source dependence has rank at most n · dim D, and exact recovery of m independent arrays needs m ≤ n. PR #2127's 96-transport floor and PR #2148's 48-rank floor follow as conditional corollaries. A one-message fixture attains the bound.

Checked: 13 theorem roots compiled afresh and audited to propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound only; eight weakened variants rejected (uncharged receive, informative initialization, false floors 97 and 49, sorry, custom axiom, missing probe, undercounted cut). A Python binder reconstructs PR #1972's witness (4,058 events, 1,410 transports, 222/222 frames, eight inward descents) and regenerates SourceCut.lean's facts, which the kernel checks by decide. Reproduce with python3 -I -B research/lean-transport-cut/check_lean.py --lake lake after lake exe cache get (see the README), expecting PASS_LEAN_TRANSPORT_CUT theorems=13 rejected_controls=8 no_sorry_or_custom_axioms.

Scope: the native-event-to-Runs translation is written, not formalized, and the refined crossing count of PR #2136/#2148 stays outside Lean. No physical tariff, coverage credit or supplier; no κ change; no independent review. The PR adds a path-filtered workflow following the repository's per-package convention.

Next: formalize the native-event translation with a typed register and frame semantics, or kernel-check the refined crossing count from the survivor separator.

Credit: Ross Richardson (PR #2127), Nick Petalas (PR #2148), Tairitsu-Aya (PR #2136), Michael Yee (PR #2163), David Arias, Adam Gall, Jeremy Diviney, Rohan Arun, Chafik Boukhalfa, and the Lean and Mathlib authors.

Scope released.

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