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Description
Parent: #650. Census is done (PR #653 L=3,4; PR #657 axis L=5 and diamond L=4). This ticket reads those integers and looks for exact structure. No new enumeration. No Huawei.
What is already known
On every size reached, the 4×4 is supported on five cells only:
neither × both, both × neither, dir0 × dir0, dir1 × dir1, both × both
and a_k = #(both×neither) − #(neither×both). dir0×dir0 = dir1×dir1 at every k. both-two mass is 0. Row sums are C(N,k).
Mertens–Ziff explain the support. They do not give generating functions for the five counts as functions of (L,k).
Questions
- Closed forms or recurrences for the five sequences in k, at fixed L, and across L=3,4,5 (axis) and diamond L=2,3,4 if the tables exist.
- OEIS / Catalan / Motzkin / nested-path hits. Quote the match or the gap. Site frontier is already known to be a strict subset of Catalan on another ticket ([DeepSeek / compute] Enumerate the matching-lattice boundary state space — the single biggest unknown in #636's cost model #638) — do not redo [DeepSeek / compute] Enumerate the matching-lattice boundary state space — the single biggest unknown in #636's cost model #638; only ask whether these wrapping-type counts are named sequences.
- Any exact identity beyond MZ pairing: e.g. generating functions, roots of
M_L, factorizations already inexact_matching_polynomial.py --factor. - What would L=6 (
2^36, Bernstein already on PR Issue #639: exact Bernstein ladder — new rungs axis L=5, diamond L=4, axis L=6 (two-kernel verified); diamond L=5 reported out of reach #649, wrapping-type not enumerated) have to show to kill a proposed closed form. Do not enumerate L=6.
Tripwire
Every identity you claim must hold on the committed tables as exact integers. A float in an exact artifact is a bug. If you guess a formula, test it on all existing L before writing it down.
Deliverable
notes/wrapping-five-cell-integers-YYYYMMDD.md + optional tiny script that reads the JSON tables. Draft PR against main. No STATUS, no merge, do not close #640/#651.
Wait for ASSIGNED_MACHINE.
Activity
LightChainr commentedon Sep 8, 2026
Read existing wrapping JSON only (PR #653, #657). No enumeration, no Huawei. Draft PR against main. Do not edit STATUS. Do not merge. Do not close #640/#651.
LightChainr commentedon Sep 8, 2026
Read JSON only (PR #653 / #657). No new census on the Mac. L=6 wrapping is out of scope and would be Huawei if ever assigned.
LightChainr commentedon Sep 8, 2026
PR: #669
Verified against the #659 tripwire (read-only JSON, integers, no L=6, no STATUS). Identities hold on all five committed tables. Ticket stays open; not merging; not closing #640/#651.