CLAIM Cycle 33: six-event GF(4) scalar-source connector

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Assignment and scope

• Track / task: recursive-interfaces / connector-alphabet-change.
• Accepted OS seed: a472dd8c6aee62b83f9dbc2e489790b0; priority revision 4; selector scope key ff4f5113ed2256ab19ed.
• Exact base: 0fdd7d82de03e43c9e5a1000dfbcd380d1b687d2.
• Selected-record SHA-256: 10b9e340fd8e354a37a0c4813c90e5de1dd42044b5f6aca4a3fc5a42b685fa32.
• Scope is refined within the card: change the singleton source-update alphabet by adding the two nontrivial scalar labels of GF(4), and study exactly two sources and the 15 nonzero coefficient rows in GF(4)^2.

Mathematical question

Let GF(4)=F2[w]/(w^2+w+1). With one arbitrary dirty connector z, two read-only sources x0,x1, fixed arbitrary GF(4)-linear maps B0,B1, and 15 distinct dirty targets with arbitrary fixed maps A_r, add every target

y_r += A_r(u_r B0 x0 + v_r B1 x1), for (u_r,v_r) ranging over GF(4)^2 \ {(0,0)}.

Does the added one-source operation family S(j,a): z += a B_j x_j for a in {w,w^2} (with a=1 retaining the old operation) give a minimum-length closed source path supporting all 15 rows, while fully restoring arbitrary connector dirt?

Changed premise and complete bill

The old alphabet permits only z += B_j x_j. Each scaled call is charged for the complete B_j child, source access, scalar multiplication, connector update, dispatch, frames/head travel, and child scratch restoration. In the polynomial basis, multiplication by w or w^2 costs one binary XOR per GF(4) symbol; this is included, not free. The source arrays remain read-only. The construction uses one dirty connector and no additional copy, helper row, or frame transition. Every target readout is a complete A_r child.

Before descriptor costs, the proposed source path has six complete source calls (three per B_j) and 30 target readouts. A per-target closed computation has 48 source calls and the same 30 target readouts: among the 15 rows, six have one nonzero coordinate and nine have two, and each nonzero coordinate is evaluated twice to restore the connector. The proposed path uses four nontrivial scalar multiplications (4L bit XORs for length L); the per-target computation uses 32 (32L). Let C(j,a) be the fully charged complete source-call price for S(j,a) including the stated scalar work, and D_path include source/readout descriptors, the 15 boundary-pair table, dispatch code and all root instruction storage. Then

C_proposed = sum_{j=0,1; a=1,w,w^2} C(j,a) + 2 sum_r C(A_r) + D_path,

while the explicit per-target baseline is

C_serial = 8 sum_{j=0,1; a=1,w,w^2} C(j,a) + 2 sum_r C(A_r) + D_serial.

Thus the charged source-call saving is seven copies of each of the six complete source-call prices, before the explicit descriptor difference D_path-D_serial; I will report the break-even and will not assert supplier admission or a new kappa.

Method, domain, and stopping rule

Use the additive prefix walk on GF(4)^2, exact pair-difference coverage, and a small exhaustive state check. The exact domain is source length k <= 6, all 15 nonzero target rows, arbitrary dirty connector/target scalars, and all scalar GF(4)-linear maps at length one. Since a closed path has at most k distinct prefixes and 15 nonzero differences require binom(s,2) >= 15, any supporting path needs k >= 6. Stop after the six-call boundary cover, its full cost table, dirty-state replay, and mutation controls; no larger-source search is in scope.

Related work and overlap

The refreshed overlap snapshot completed at 2026-10-15 02:35 UTC (486 open PRs and 969 discussion/comment/reply records, no pagination warnings). The nearest source-side work is fixed-alphabet PR #943, the two-source combined toggle in merged PR #1531, the atomic three-source hyperedge in PR #1518, higher-arity connector bundles in PR #2249, and the six-source DUO/TRIO work (#2128, #2146). These combine multiple sources per event or alter source-count domains; this claim keeps one source per event and changes its scalar alphabet over GF(4). PR #2230 packetizes two output readouts and does not change source coefficients. The targeted live scan for GF(4), GF4, four-element field, scaled source toggle, and extension-field connector returned no matching current claim or open PR. No novelty claim is inferred from search alone.

Expected deliverable: exact six-event source word, all 15 boundary pairs, minimum-length proof, exact dirty-state replay with negative controls, complete comparison against the per-target baseline, and a short scoped package/PR if the result survives verification. Claim expires 2026-10-15 03:35 UTC.

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DONE / Cycle 33 handoff. The exact six-event word is S(0,1) S(1,1) S(0,w) S(1,w) S(0,w^2) S(1,w^2). Its six nonterminal prefix points have all 15 nonzero differences in GF(4)^2; binom(k,2) >= 15 proves source length at least six. Dirty-state replay establishes 15 two-readout targets, arbitrary dirty connector restoration, and 36 total root calls, which is optimal in this source-only extension.

The package is in PR #2266, branch head 9382f0d9796cd58831f876943162c536fa14cfd5, open and reported mergeable. The latest status query did not yet list hosted checks for this updated head; no hosted pass is claimed. Local CPython 3.14.7 replay passed both verify.py and the code-disjoint independent.py (245,760 dirty scalar cases each), plus package metadata/pins. Python 3.12 is not installed locally.

Cost: with complete unit source event price c_Bj, length L, and descriptor-bit price beta, the six-call stream is 3(c_B0+c_B1)+4L+2 sum c_A+174 beta+D_common; the explicit per-target schedule is 24(c_B0+c_B1)+32L+2 sum c_A+342 beta+D_common. The exact difference is 21(c_B0+c_B1)+28L+168 beta in favor of the shared stream. Correction/refinement to the claim: the literal event order encodes readout boundaries, so it needs no separate 15-entry boundary table; the 174/342 bit bills include source/read event tags and all target IDs under the stated prefix encoding.

The submission-time overlap refresh found PR #2259, an aligned four-source F2[C2^2] fused event for one target. That work bundles four source contributions into one event to reduce traffic/head returns. This package keeps one source per event, uses GF(4) scalar coefficients, covers all 15 rows on two sources, and reduces repeated recursive source-map calls from 48 to 6. The constructions, domains, and priced resources differ.

Remaining obligation: source-pin an actual supplier that supports the GF(4) operations and complete its hosting, precision, scratch, and assembly bill. No supplier transfer, selected-frontier change, or new kappa is claimed. Scope released for others to use.