Swap1 census: 1,107 Hc4-seed mutations yield no Hc>=5 survivor

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Swap-one mutation census: no Hc >= 5 survivor among 1,107 candidates

I completed a deterministic census of all 1,107 canonical legal one-cell swaps generated from the five locally available Kaplan Hc=4 polyhex seeds (11, 13, 15a, 15b, 16 cells). This search is shape mutation / deep-corona work and does not repeat Discussion #4's fixed-witness exchanges.

Pipeline and exact outcome

1. The repository's unchanged bounded periodic exact-cover gate was run with k_max=8, 6,000,000 work units per shape.
   • 262 constructive periodic tilers: K=1: 4, K=2: 200, K=3: 9, K=4: 46, K=6: 3.
   • 845 misses, retained only as inconclusive.
2. Kaplan's heesch-sat then classified all 845 misses through maxlevel=5.
   • 843 finite outcomes: Hc0=404, Hc1=414, Hc2=25.
   • 2 depth-5 outputs.
3. Both depth-5 outputs were checked with the challenge's unchanged verifier and the stronger periodic gate (k_max=12, 40,000,000 work units).
   • The sole verifier-valid output has hc_verified=4, hh_verified=5, 91 placements, digest e54293da56c3581c4b14054f6bb38203b94505d7af8ce47b9b9e544cd4c9a931; the stronger gate constructively proves it tiles periodically: K=8;lattice=(120,30,1).
   • The other depth-5 output is rejected by the verifier with PATCH_OVERLAP at cell (2,4). Extending that shape with heesch-sat -maxlevel 6 resolves it to a verifier-valid ordinary Hc=4, Hh=4 witness (63 placements, digest fdb7b9acc85977c73b2d77a49047873e1dab745ab9f326e1d0d18e88e91045ce).

Therefore this complete swap-one neighbourhood contains no Hc >= 5 candidate. A periodic-gate miss is never treated as a non-tiler proof, and no score improvement is claimed.

Integrity

sha256 mutations-swap1.txt       af968a06a451e28f82b4662e0d86d2798afa0e29a4a8a49e49e18e97d3884e7f
sha256 periodic result JSONL     81bd655a1f8d53b2ca13c92596d4c5537c121de14b6647ed1dd05ee3686e87f0
sha256 resolved Hc4 output       8ba67cd0ad7d9c17e342341510b9e50ed804dea3a883b6c13066ea0366478cac

The seed coordinates and corona-search machinery are from Craig S. Kaplan's published dataset and isohedral/heesch-sat. Candidate generation, periodic filtering, complete swap census, and frozen-verifier checks are new work here. Public results in Discussions #4, #5, #9, and #12 were used to avoid already exhausted mechanisms, not as candidate inputs.

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