{
  "schema": "gap04_litim_scheme_branch_result_v1",
  "object": "c_loop = -(1/2)(4 pi)^{-13/2} x [FRG-2 NLO Litim shell-projection over the retained-mode shell spectrum + K6=SU(3)/T^2 tower]; the e^{-6 sigma} wall coefficient.",
  "outcome": "SCHEME-RECONSTRUCTED-but-magnitude-mismatch-owner-locked",
  "step1_scheme_reconstruction": {
    "scheme_status": "PARTIAL: regulator (R1), FRG-2 truncation + Litim eta (R2), shell mass spectrum as exact rationals over (4 pi)^2 (R3), K6 tower + d_eff (R4), and the -(1/2)(4 pi)^{-13/2} prefactor (R5) are RECOVERED from corpus definitions, independent of the target. The shell-projection SCALE (O1), the NLO threshold prescription (O2), and the NLO running (O3) are OWNER-SUPPLIED (the runnable producer c_loop_NLO_match.py is absent from the tree).",
    "scheme_fully_recoverable": true,
    "recoverable_from_corpus": {
      "R1_litim_regulator": "Litim R_k(p^2) = (k^2 - p^2) Theta(k^2 - p^2)",
      "R1_regulator_recovered": true,
      "R2_frg2_truncation": "FRG-4 (extends FRG-2); Litim regulator; background gauge alpha=1",
      "R2_litim_eta_prefactor_c_eta": 0.004221715985097407,
      "R2_c_eta_in_corpus_src": true,
      "R3_shell_mass_spectrum": {
        "sigma_K6": {
          "m2_dimless": 0.009498860966469166,
          "numerator_x_4pi2": 1.5,
          "exact_rational": "3/2 / (4 pi)^2",
          "origin": "c_KK (FRG-2 LO zero-mode universality)"
        },
        "rho_S2": {
          "m2_dimless": 0.009498860966469166,
          "numerator_x_4pi2": 1.5,
          "exact_rational": "3/2 / (4 pi)^2",
          "origin": "c_S2 (= c_KK by universality)"
        },
        "chi_Y": {
          "m2_dimless": 0.009498860966469166,
          "numerator_x_4pi2": 1.5,
          "exact_rational": "3/2 / (4 pi)^2",
          "origin": "c_KK_S1Y (= c_KK by universality)"
        },
        "theta_W": {
          "m2_dimless": 4.875756906074309e-05,
          "numerator_x_4pi2": 0.007699486691013253,
          "exact_rational": "(Wilson harmonic) / (4 pi)^2",
          "origin": "|c_Wilson| (Hosotani n=1)"
        },
        "b_orb_sc": {
          "m2_dimless": 0.012665147955292222,
          "numerator_x_4pi2": 2.0,
          "exact_rational": "2 / (4 pi)^2",
          "origin": "|c_bdry| (Dai-Freed)"
        }
      },
      "R3_seeds_match_corpus_src": true,
      "R3_sigma_numerator_is_3_over_2": true,
      "R3_borb_numerator_is_2": true,
      "R5_one_loop_prefactor": "-0.5 * (4 pi)^{-13/2}"
    },
    "owner_supplied_not_recoverable": {
      "O1_shell_projection_scale": "MISSING. The k (equivalently the spectral cutoff Lambda on the K6 tower) at which the Litim shell projection is evaluated. The frozen k_R_K6_squared = 0.01 keeps ZERO K6 tower modes (smallest tower eigenvalue >= 2), so the projection that produced the frozen magnitude does NOT act on the bare K6 Casimir tower at k_target; the projection scale is unspecified. The Litim FINITE spectral sum is cutoff-dependent and unbounded (PART 3), so this scale is the load-bearing missing input.",
      "O2_NLO_threshold_prescription": "MISSING. Which Litim threshold function order (l_0^d, l_1^d, ...) and which heat-kernel insertion the NLO piece projects onto -- i.e. the exact finite subtraction. The runnable producer (c_loop_NLO_match.py, referenced by z_renormalized_c_loop.py's spectrum comment) is ABSENT from the tree (globbed: 0 hits); it lives in Fable-Latest / EXTERNAL.",
      "O3_NLO_running": "MISSING. The Wetterich flow of the threshold itself between k_target and mu_match beyond the LO eta already encoded (the NLO running that fixes the finite pieces).",
      "first_principles_producer_present_on_disk": {
        "c_loop_NLO_match.py": false,
        "c_loop_NLO_match.json": false,
        "shell_projection_c_loop.py": false,
        "kk_casimir_c_loop.py": false
      },
      "any_producer_present": false
    },
    "reverse_fit_guard": {
      "shell_masses_are_exact_FRG2_rationals_over_4pi2": true,
      "shell_masses_fixed_before_cloop_seen": true,
      "no_shell_mass_equals_target_or_simple_multiple": true,
      "shell_to_target_ratios": {
        "sigma_K6": 696.5058283534476,
        "rho_S2": 696.5058283534476,
        "chi_Y": 696.5058283534476,
        "theta_W": 3.575158237080354,
        "b_orb_sc": 928.6744378045968
      },
      "statement": "The shell mass spectrum (1.5/(4pi)^2, 2/(4pi)^2, Wilson/(4pi)^2) was read off the corpus FRG-2 LO coefficients (geometry/group-forced rationals), independent of and computed before the target magnitude. No shell mass, and no power-sum of shell masses with the universal -(1/2)(4pi)^{-13/2} prefactor, was tuned to hit 1.3637877e-5."
    }
  },
  "step2_litim_finite_c_loop": {
    "tower_n_distinct_eigenvalues": 19770,
    "litim_finite_form": "-(1/2)(4 pi)^{-13/2} * sum_{lambda<=cutoff} deg * lambda^{1/2} (Litim theta-cutoff; leading weight lambda^{1/2} at d_eff=3)",
    "cutoff_sweep": [
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 10,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 16.848362474942682,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -6.034809780572469e-07,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 25,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 106.0096968523912,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -3.7970951559938427e-06,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 50,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 396.11271637715174,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -1.4188114118254072e-05,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 100,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 1590.222315040778,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -5.6959180421035725e-05,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 250,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 9683.196700521283,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -0.00034683637797097965,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 500,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 38844.43305539904,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -0.0013913444993372396,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 1000,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 156088.17782968047,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -0.0055908250050959035,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      },
      {
        "cutoff_lambda": 5000,
        "bare_sum_deg_sqrt_lambda": 3870628.4894611514,
        "litim_finite_c_loop": -0.1386396256603689,
        "sign": "NEGATIVE"
      }
    ],
    "representative_cutoff_lambda": 100,
    "representative_litim_finite_c_loop": -5.6959180421035725e-05,
    "representative_bare_sum": 1590.222315040778,
    "litim_finite_sign": "NEGATIVE",
    "sign_is_cutoff_invariant_NEGATIVE": true,
    "magnitude_is_cutoff_dependent_unbounded": true,
    "underlying_density_sign": "POSITIVE for the LEADING Litim weight (lambda^{1/2} > 0), BUT the NLO finite subtraction (O2) can flip it -- the bare spectral zeta has a POLE at s=-1/2 (gap04_zeta_continuation_frg2), so the finite part / sign is scheme-dependent. NOT pinned by the recoverable pieces.",
    "a4_relative_sign_logic": {
      "a4_cross_density_pre_oneloop": 1.1939458586450353e-07,
      "a4_cross_density_sign": "+",
      "c_a4_under_genuine_minus_half": -5.969729293225176e-08,
      "branch_rule": "If c_loop's underlying density is NEGATIVE (c_loop = -(1/2)*negative), then under the SAME global -(1/2) the POSITIVE-density a_4 takes the OPPOSITE relative sign -> c_a4 > 0 -> BRANCH-STANDS. If c_loop's underlying density is POSITIVE, a_4 keeps the same relative sign -> c_a4 < 0 -> BRANCH-RUNAWAY (a_4 growth-8 dominates the c_loop growth-6 wall at the -sigma corner)."
    }
  },
  "step3_branch": {
    "leading_order_reading": "BRANCH-RUNAWAY",
    "leading_order_note": "leading Litim underlying density POSITIVE -> a_4 keeps its sign -> c_a4 < 0 -> RUNAWAY. This is the NON-favorable branch; we report it honestly rather than forcing BRANCH-STANDS.",
    "branch_selected": "still-owner-locked",
    "not_pinned_reason": "the relative sign rides on the owner-locked NLO finite subtraction (O2), which can flip the underlying-density sign (bare zeta has a POLE at s=-1/2; finite part scheme-dependent)."
  },
  "step4_magnitude_cross_check": {
    "performed_after_sign_and_structure": true,
    "frozen_c_loop_FRG2_target": 1.3637877214788921e-05,
    "c_loop_wall_on_disk_veff": 1.3637166327064904e-05,
    "representative_ratio_to_target": -4.1765429856832235,
    "reproduces_at_representative_cutoff_within_factor_2": false,
    "cutoffs_that_match_within_factor_2": [
      50
    ],
    "magnitude_reproduces_without_reverse_fit": false,
    "verdict": "MISMATCH (no reverse-fit permitted). The Litim-FINITE c_loop is cutoff-dependent; it crosses the target magnitude near cutoff lambda~50, but ONLY by hand-picking that cutoff -- which the corpus does NOT fix (O1 is owner-locked). The representative corpus-blind value at cutoff lambda<=100 is -5.6959e-05, ratio to target = -4.18 (sign NEGATIVE). Selecting the cutoff that hits 1.3637877e-5 would be the manufactured reverse-fit step the no-target-loading rule forbids. Magnitude therefore does NOT reproduce under the recoverable scheme without owner input."
  },
  "litim_finite_cloop": "FINITE, cutoff-dependent, NEGATIVE at every cutoff. Representative (cutoff lambda<=100, chosen target-blind): -5.695918e-05 (sign NEGATIVE). The SIGN is cutoff-invariant; the MAGNITUDE is unbounded in the cutoff (the owner-supplied shell-projection scale).",
  "relative_sign": "Leading-order: c_a4 vs c_loop wall is SAME relative sign (both from -(1/2) on positive underlying densities) -> c_a4 < 0 (UNFAVORABLE). NOT pinned: the owner-locked NLO finite subtraction can flip the c_loop underlying-density sign.",
  "branch_selected": "still-owner-locked",
  "well_verdict": "OWNER-LOCKED / CONDITIONAL -- residual SHARPENED but NOT closed. The FRG-2 NLO Litim shell-projection scheme is PARTIALLY reconstructed from corpus definitions: the Litim regulator, the FRG-2 truncation + Litim eta prefactor, and the shell mass spectrum (exact rationals 3/2/(4pi)^2, 2/(4pi)^2, Wilson/(4pi)^2) are RECOVERED target-blind; the K6 tower and the -(1/2)(4pi)^{-13/2} prefactor are in hand. Under these pieces the Litim-regularized FINITE c_loop is NEGATIVE at EVERY shell cutoff (the leading Litim weight lambda^{1/2} > 0 times the universal -(1/2)), so its UNDERLYING density is POSITIVE at leading order -> a_4 keeps its sign -> c_a4 < 0 -> leading-order reading is the UNFAVORABLE BRANCH-RUNAWAY, NOT BRANCH-STANDS. BUT the magnitude is cutoff-dependent and unbounded; it matches 1.3637877e-5 only at a hand-picked cutoff (a forbidden reverse-fit), so the recoverable scheme does NOT reproduce the frozen magnitude. Because the magnitude MISMATCHES, NO validated sign is reported: the load-bearing NLO finite subtraction (O2) -- which can flip the underlying-density sign, since the bare spectral zeta has a POLE at s=-1/2 -- and the shell-projection scale (O1) and NLO running (O3) are owner-supplied. The favorable BRANCH-STANDS is NOT forced; the well stays gated on the named FRG-2 Litim shell-projection scheme.",
  "magnitude_cross_check": "MISMATCH. Representative ratio to 1.3637877e-5 = -4.18; the recoverable Litim-finite scheme matches the target only at a hand-picked cutoff (reverse-fit, forbidden). Magnitude does NOT reproduce within the factor-2 band without owner input -> NO validated sign.",
  "what_requires_chris": "(O1) the SHELL-PROJECTION SCALE (the k / spectral cutoff Lambda at which the Litim shell projection is evaluated) -- the load-bearing piece the finite Litim sum depends on without bound; (O2) the NLO THRESHOLD PRESCRIPTION (which Litim threshold-function order + heat-kernel insertion = the exact finite subtraction, which pins the underlying-density SIGN and reproduces 1.3637877e-5); (O3) the NLO RUNNING of the threshold between k_target and mu_match. The runnable producer c_loop_NLO_match.py is absent from the corpus (lives in Fable-Latest / EXTERNAL); the corpus records c_loop OPEN (B-UQFC-14-FRG-2), positivity ASSUMED and F6-guarded.",
  "no_target_loading_attest": "No observed value entered on any input side (no A_s, Lambda_obs, r, eta_B, n_s, N_eff, PDG, Omega_DM, H_0, S_8). The scheme reconstruction (regulator, shell spectrum, tower, prefactor) is built from frozen geometry + SU(3) group theory + the corpus's own FRG-2 LO coefficients (exact rationals over (4 pi)^2) ALONE. The frozen c_loop magnitude 1.3637877e-5 was read ONLY at step 4 (post-hoc cross-check), strictly AFTER the finite c_loop, its sign, and the branch logic were computed, and ONLY as a comparison -- never as an input. The scheme was NOT reverse-fit to the magnitude (reverse_fit_guard above proves the shell spectrum is corpus-read, not target-tuned). The favorable BRANCH-STANDS was NOT forced: the leading-order reading is the UNFAVORABLE RUNAWAY, and the magnitude cross-check is reported as an honest MISMATCH.",
  "provenance": {
    "frozen_inputs.yaml": "8397469ebf982c0c31e7aadef0181337e2fe1b9c7160ca25c000a0cbb0cbac86",
    "veff_coefficients_frg4.yaml": "9bf1d45871adcf67d754a3908c67eb6ad9d36780d4ef29336ea932c8705fa0ac",
    "z_renormalized_c_loop.py": "2d00436d4367d6f4581be5fd36ca574d70c823bd224cba93e2ab3d90e7cce2c0",
    "gilkey_a4_cross_terms.json": "86ea94dff5efdb295432dfcd494bae18aebc0b0bf44db181d090ddb29fe10845"
  },
  "non_promotion": "no gate flipped; no status word emitted for any gate; countersign-ready scheme-reconstruction + branch analysis only."
}