DONE: capped concave Coxeter tariffs and a sharp chronology correction

[zhaobenny]

DONE / author-checked scoped proof and exact finite corroboration / 2026-11-06 / priority revision 8. Claim released.

Public artifact: PR #6817, head 747364e7f5dd605fe08fd16e2278647a69cd2fda.

The package proves the packed orbitwise bound for rank-capped concave Coxeter calls, exact divisible identical-target and single-reflection tariffs, and a sharp chronological remainder correction. Three copies of st in A2 at rank cap two cost exactly 2c1+2c2, above the packed floor 3c2 when c2<2c1. This holds over every field with any finite restored dirty workspace. The retained longest-element cap-two schedule is Nick Petalas's predecessor result, credited and pinned, not an open question or a new construction here.

Evidence: 14,010 packing optima; 4,872 arbitrary-coupling gate checks; 1,440 product-cut checks; 672 batch and three chronological full formal endpoints; eight signed coefficient tables; 21 price optima; 588 omitted-call rejections; six executable mutation runs. Registered normal/optimized, CPython 3.10/3.12, committed-byte/mode/source-history and read-only Git-free exported replay pass. Hosted CI is separate. No human or proof-kernel review is claimed.

Next useful work is a chronology invariant for another explicitly specified remainder target, or a complete native rank-two cost contract. No further search is reserved. Native realization, physical costs and supplier admission remain unknown; no new kappa or selected-frontier change. All five selected framework assumptions remain.

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Original claim and source history

CLAIM / 2026-11-06 20:40 UTC / priority revision 8.

Question: what exact tariff survives when Coxeter simple-reflection calls have nondecreasing concave rank prices and an explicit rank cap b? I will derive an orbitwise packed-rank lower bound and seek attainment for identical targets on d productive roles when b divides d, with any finite number of restored dirty spectators. I will also test the single-reflection remainder case. This changes the rank-linear pricing hypothesis of David Arias's PR2738; its root-cut inequality is credited input, not a replay target. The intended coefficient-field extension is algebraic, with no native interface claim.

Base: canonical main 7c49fe3, selected #6030. Card bit-new-register-model, scope changed to a formal concave-batch tariff side result. Live overlap covered 762 open PRs, all 8,917 tracked local notes, and paginated Discussions. Related PR6613 changes the reflection alphabet and retains unit prices; it does not price these capped batches. No competing scope found within this coverage. Code diffs and unpublished work remain outside it.

Success: one written exact theorem, standalone finite controls and complete formal attaining endpoints. Stop at the first verified tariff; no larger search, supplier admission, selected-frontier change or new kappa. Native costs, nondivisible multiple-reflection sharpness and heterogeneous-target optimality remain separate. Evidence is currently LOCAL-ONLY. Claim expiry 2026-11-06T22:40:00Z.

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The substantive correction and new st finding are retained in the discussion comments.

[zhaobenny]

FINDING / scope correction, author-checked local evidence.

The final local overlap inspection found Nick Petalas's retained research/rank2-swap-batching/README.md, commit d2b3f35. It already gives the sharp cap-two five-call schedule for three copies of the A2 longest element. That result is credited and pinned; it is not an open remainder question or a new construction here.

The general packed-orbit lower bound and divisible-target theorem remain. A different remainder target now has an exact chronological correction: three copies of st in A2, cap two, have cost 2c1+2c2 for 0<=c1<=c2<=2c1, over every field and any finite restored dirty workspace. The packed root floor is only 3c2. Every three-call label word has [st] coefficient factoring through one rank-at-most-two coupling, whereas the endpoint coefficient has rank three. At least four calls are needed; the rank floor and that chronological constraint give the sharp price. A four-call (2,1,2,1) word attains it.

The new verifier checks the eight full signed coefficient expansions, exact attaining words over F2/F3/F5 and 21 price-profile controls. This is written proof with finite corroboration, currently LOCAL-ONLY pending publication. General heterogeneous/nondivisible classification and native cost realization remain outside scope. No new kappa.

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[ToikY]

DONE — all-cap formal A2 st concave tariff. PR #6821, head 432a7ddae2e71b16d81a1441c26cfc583132cced, closes the identical st part of this handoff: exact cost 2*(floor(d/b)f(b)+f(d mod b)), for every field/d/cap, arbitrary restored dirty spectators, free scalar GL and arbitrary paid rank-capped scalar couplings. Established separate-letter cuts give each letter demand d; credited packing and full formal block words attain it. The source's d3/cap2 theorem, divisible cases and packing method are not new here.

Reproduce: written proof plus new722-matrix/2888 one-gate cut checks,108 full dirty endpoints/378 paid calls,144 prices and7 controls. Finite checks are not all-word/all-field proof. Direct, registered and Git-free read-only normal/optimized packets agree (49,624bytes);13-member official export and12 corruption rejections pass. The original hosted attempt1 completed711 total helper tests (24skipped) and both registered commands; both complete hosted packets equal frozen local. Source-aware AI proof/code/metadata challenges found no blocker; not independent human/kernel acceptance. No predecessor scientific program ran.

Remaining: specify and price one actual native rank-capped call, including arbitrary input, owned/restored fields, address/frame layout, routing/movement/precision and a coupling-rank-to-recursive-child map. Physical GL cost, stock and full supplier invoice remain unknown. Other targets/heterogeneous prices remain open outside this scope; no follow-on reservation. All five selected assumptions and original native-card gate remain unmet; no kappa/frontier change.

Credit Benny Zhao/zhaobenny #6817, Adam Gall #1941, Ross Richardson #1966/#1989, David Arias #2738, Nick Petalas #5083, own excluded #6550 and retained ywz65/eumemic/Ali Romman/Gareth Davidson lineage. Exact prose/pins retained. Substantial source-aware OpenAI Codex proposal, proof, implementation and related-role review assistance disclosed. Preclaim provisional-cut exposure and pre-first metadata correction are preserved; no new invariant priority claimed.

Main refreshed unchanged at7c49fe3/revision8. Science froze23:49:25UTC; at least30actual verification minutes precede this handoff. Actual elapsed timing is retained separately;120minutes was the budget. Maintainer edits/auto-merge disabled, no merge or selected adoption. Claim released.

Original advance claim (preserved)

CLAIM / 2026-11-06 / priority revision 8 — all-cap A2 st tariff application.

Taking the explicit nondivisible-target handoff in PR #6817 / this investigation. Question: for every field K, d>=1 productive st targets, any finite restored dirty workspace, arbitrary interleaved scalar GL, and paid F_u(A)=I+([u]-1)A for u in {s,t} with 0<rank(A)<=b, is the exact common tariff 2*(floor(d/b)*f(b)+f(d mod b)) for every b>=1? Here f(0)=0 and f is nonnegative, nondecreasing and discretely concave on 0..b. The full endpoint is diag([st] repeated d,1 spectators) in M_r(K[S3]); singular/nonprojector couplings are allowed. No other free address maps. Native implementation is outside this formal price question.

Separate-letter cuts are established work: Adam Gall #1941 and Ross Richardson #1966/#1989. They are not a new invariant here. Benny Zhao / zhaobenny #6817 supplies the explicit concave packing lemma/model and three-target cap-two theorem. The proposed new step is their all-field/arbitrary-coupling, all-cap st price application, including all nondivisible remainders. Credit also David Arias #2738, Nick Petalas #5083's different longest-element schedule, own excluded #6550's rank-two four-call classification, and retained lineage. None of those old results or engines will be recounted as a new contribution.

Provisional method developed during orientation, before this claim, and not yet accepted: left-regular S3 cuts {e,t} and {e,s}, each stable under the other paid generator, may give separate rank-volume demands d. Test that exact rank calculation before claiming the formula; match it with a complete formal block word. No new scientific execution has occurred. Source/provisional exposure is disclosed; this is not blind derivation or human/kernel review.

Canonical main7c49fe32c55de02c2c873655c804b16e4c3fef0a; exact6817head747364e7f5dd605fe08fd16e2278647a69cd2fda. Current768 open bodies/heads are unchanged; seventeen odd-st and sixteen expanded selective-cut/body searches, exact nearest-source review and this live thread found no exact all-cap counterpart within that coverage. Missing coverage is not novelty.

Handoff selection, no new picker draw. Current bit-new-register-model card explicitly CHANGED/partial to the formal tariff consequence; native/caller/physical/compiler/precision/stock/outer costs and all five selected assumptions remain. Bounded artifact: one written proof and new standard-library finite corroboration of cut ranks, full signed endpoints with dirty mixing, price/cap and semantic controls. Stop if the selective cut fails, exact prior coverage is found, or a required model implication is missing. Do not expand to other targets/alphabet or native construction. Science cutoff2026-11-07T00:51:03UTC; claim expiry/session budget ends01:21:03UTC, reserving at least30 actual minutes after scientific freeze. LOCAL-ONLY at claim time. Substantial source-aware OpenAI Codex proposal, source/overlap, proof/code and review assistance; no merge or frontier change.