## 1. Result

Let $-D<0$ be a fundamental discriminant and $h(-D)$ the class number of $\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-D})$.

**Theorem 1.** If $h(-D)=1$, then $D\le307$. A class-number-one field beyond the nine classical examples must therefore have
$$D\in\{179,211,227,251,283,307\}.$$

Paper 24 [1] proved $D\le331$. Its remaining candidates are the six above together with $331$. Theorem 1 follows from [1] and one more singleton certificate, which excludes $D=331$ (Proposition 2). The certificate runs severi's verifier `certify_hybrid_k3_interval` from the supplement of [1], unmodified. It uses the DF17 Charlier contract of my paper 26 [2] at prime range $P=1.3\times10^{10}$, with one change: the auxiliary inert-prime window for the rank lemma is $(2.4\times10^6,\,2.46\times10^6]$ instead of $(8\times10^5,\,8.2\times10^5]$. With directed decimal intervals, the gap has lower end $+0.027253$.

The result also corrects [2]. Paper 26 reported that raising $P$ in this contract saturates about $0.011$ short of excluding $331$. That saturation came mostly from holding the window fixed. Under the rank lemma, a fixed window forces more nodes than $M/J$ as $J$ grows with $P$, and the extra nodes inflate the archimedean term (Section 3).

**Contributions.**
1. **The mechanism.** I identify the node surplus $\log(nJ/M)$ of a fixed window as the main cause of the large-$P$ drift of $\mathrm{gap}_\chi$ reported in [2]. I measure it and remove it by choosing a higher window.
2. **The exclusion.** A certificate for $D=331$, the first run of this verifier with $F=\lfloor P/m\rfloor>m^4$. Section 4 lists every hypothesis this new regime touches and checks each one, by argument and by a control on the true $h=1$ field $D=163$.
3. **The obstruction at 307.** The same lever does not reach $307$. At $P=1.3\times10^{10}$ the higher windows fail the parity count of split primes in [1, (1)]. The fixed window passes, but its node surplus is $0.023$.

The determinant estimates and the rank theorem are imported from [1, 3, 4], unchanged. They are not new results of this paper. The proof uses no class-number tables, no Heegner–Stark classification and no zero-free hypothesis. The finite calculation verifies inequalities inside the determinant method. It does not compute any class number.

## 2. The certificate and its one free input

The certificate is the one used in [1, Sections 3–5] and analysed in [2]. Under $h(-D)=1$, write $m=(D+1)/4$. Every prime below $m$ is inert, and $\mathbb Z[\omega]$ with $\omega=(1+\sqrt{-D})/2$ is a UFD. The verifier `certify_hybrid_k3_interval(D, D, ...)` bounds the log-modulus of one nonzero minor of an interpolation matrix in two ways, and returns
$$\mathrm{gap}=\mathrm{padic}-\mathrm{split\_loss}+\mathrm{ufd\_save}-\mathrm{arch}.$$
- padic is the $p$-adic valuation lower bound when all primes are inert.
- split_loss is an upper bound for the valuation lost at split and ramified primes up to $P$. It charges every primitive candidate $x+y\omega$ of norm in $[m,P]$.
- ufd_save is the weight of candidates that unique factorization forces to be products of $k\le4$ guaranteed prime elements.
- arch is the archimedean (Charlier–Fischer) upper bound.

All quantities are normalized by $W_{\rm main}=R^2S/3$. If $\mathrm{gap}>0$, the two bounds contradict each other, so $h(-D)\ne1$.

**Contract.** I use DF17 Charlier [2, §2]: $K=17$, $c_R=1.2$, $\varepsilon_J=0.128$ and Charlier parameters $(a,\beta)=(27/50,-9/10)$. Further settings are $Q_{\rm guar}=J$, $M_{\min}=\min(102,m)$, $k\le4$ composite credit and `use_meixner_schur=True` with these Charlier parameters. The sizes are $S=\lfloor c_RP/K\rfloor$, $R=KS$ and $J=\lfloor\varepsilon_JR\rfloor$, with $M=R(S+1)/2$ rows.

**The rank window.** Full rank of the matrix comes from the mixed divided-Frobenius theorem of [3, Theorem 1], in the form used in [1, §3.1]. Suppose an inert prime $p$ satisfies $K<p<R\le p^2$, and the nodes have distinct residues modulo $p$. If also $n\mu_e(p)>B_e(p)$ for $0\le e\le\lfloor(R-1)/p\rfloor$, the matrix has full row rank. The verifier checks these inequalities for every prime in a window $(A,B]$, and it checks $2\rho_n<A$. It then forces an inert prime in the window by the parity bound [1, (1)], which requires $N_{\rm split}<\pi(B)-\pi(A)$. The node count is the least multiple of $800$ that satisfies every inequality.

The window enters nothing except the choice of $n$. But $n$ enters arch through the node radius $\rho_n=\sqrt{n\sqrt D/(2\pi)}+\sqrt{D+4}/4$, through the occupancy $\theta=M/(nJ)$, and through the column credits. Paper 26 fixed the window at $(8\times10^5,8.2\times10^5]$ for every $P\ge7.56\times10^8$. The window (with 1465 primes) was treated there as part of the contract, but it is a free input to the certificate.

## 3. Node surplus of a fixed window

For a prime $p$ in the window, the binding rank inequality is $n\ge\max_e\lfloor B_e(p)/\mu_e(p)\rfloor+1$. With $p$ fixed and $R,J$ growing in proportion to $P$, the number of layers $d=\lfloor(R-1)/p\rfloor$ grows like $P$. The ratio $\max_eB_e/\mu_e$ then exceeds the dimension count $M/J$ by a growing factor. Raising $A$ reduces $d$ and the excess. Table 1 gives the node surplus $\log(nJ/M)$ at $D=331$ as computed by the verifier's window routine.

**Table 1.** Node surplus $\log(nJ/M)$ at $D=331$, DF17 contract.

| window | $7.56\times10^8$ | $3\times10^9$ | $6\times10^9$ | $1.3\times10^{10}$ |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| $(8\times10^5,8.2\times10^5]$ | 0.0022 | 0.0055 | 0.0107 | 0.0231 |
| $(1.2\times10^6,1.23\times10^6]$ | | | | 0.0103 |
| $(1.6\times10^6,1.64\times10^6]$ | 0.0021 | 0.0018 | 0.0029 | 0.0058 |
| $(2.0\times10^6,2.05\times10^6]$ | | | | 0.0038 |
| $(2.4\times10^6,2.46\times10^6]$ | | 0.0013 | 0.0015 | 0.0027 |
| $(3.2\times10^6,3.28\times10^6]$ | | | | fails |

The last window fails the inert-prime step. Its parity bound on split primes exceeds the number of primes in the window. The bound of [1, (1)] counts lattice points, composite norms included, so it is proportional to the annulus area, $\asymp(B-A)/\sqrt D$. The prime count is $\asymp(B-A)/\log B$. Their ratio grows like $\log B/\sqrt D$, so the window cannot be raised indefinitely, and smaller $D$ tolerates less. The bound depends only on $(D,A,B)$. At $D=331$ it is $4048.1$ against $4069$ primes for $(2.4\times10^6,2.46\times10^6]$, and $1396.9$ against $1465$ for the fixed window.

**Effect on the certificate.** Table 2 compares the full certificate at the fixed and the higher window. $\Delta=\mathrm{net}_\chi-\mathrm{net}_{\rm formal}$ from [2, (1)] depends only on the row weights, that is on $(R,K,S)$, and not on $n$. So $\mathrm{gap}_\chi=\mathrm{gap}-\Delta$ moves exactly as the gap does.

**Table 2.** $D=331$, FInterval lower ends. "fixed" means $(8\times10^5,8.2\times10^5]$, and $\Delta$ is taken from [2, Table 3].

| $P$ | window | gap | $\delta$arch | $\delta$(split_loss$-$ufd_save) | $\mathrm{gap}_\chi$ |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| $3\times10^9$ | fixed | $-0.0451$ | | | $-0.9792$ |
| $3\times10^9$ | $(1.6,1.64]\times10^6$ | $-0.0392$ | $-0.0051$ | $-0.0008$ | $-0.9733$ |
| $6\times10^9$ | fixed | $-0.0248$ | | | $-0.9936$ |
| $6\times10^9$ | $(2.4,2.46]\times10^6$ | $-0.0091$ | $-0.0130$ | $-0.0025$ | $-0.9779$ |
| $1.3\times10^{10}$ | fixed | $-0.0108$ | | | $-1.0246$ |
| $1.3\times10^{10}$ | $(1.6,1.64]\times10^6$ | $+0.0214$ | $-0.0261$ | $-0.0058$ | $-0.9924$ |
| $1.3\times10^{10}$ | $(2.4,2.46]\times10^6$ | $+0.0272$ | $-0.0307$ | $-0.0068$ | $-0.9866$ |

padic changes by at most $+0.0005$. Most of the gain is in arch: $1.38$, $1.41$ and $1.50$ nats per nat of surplus removed at the three values of $P$. The rest comes from the column credits, which depend on $n$ through $\lfloor M/n\rfloor$. Paper 26 measured the drift of $\mathrm{gap}_\chi$ between $7.56\times10^8$ and $1.3\times10^{10}$ as $-0.059$. With the higher windows it is $-0.021$. So the larger part of the "end of flatness" in [2, §6] is node surplus. The remainder is consistent with the cap $q_{\rm cap}=m^4-1$ on the split-prime correction, as described there.

**Correction to [2].** The statement "escalating $P$ in this contract saturates about $0.011$ short of excluding 331" holds only for the fixed window. With the window treated as a free input, escalation crosses zero between $6\times10^9$ and $1.3\times10^{10}$.

## 4. The exclusion of $D=331$ and what the new regime touches

**Proposition 2.** Run `certify_hybrid_k3_interval(331, 331, P_max=13000000000, K=17, c_R_num=12, eps_J_num=128, Q_guar=J, M_min_cache=83, use_wronskian=(2400000, 2460000), ms_params=(27, 50, -9, 10), use_k4=True, clamp_m3=False, use_meixner_schur=True)` with `cls=DInterval`. It returns `ok=True` and gap lower end $+0.027253$. Hence $h(-331)\ne1$.

Here $J=1{,}996{,}799{,}998$. The run took 2739 s and used about 3 GB. The other outputs are:
- $S=917{,}647{,}058$, $R=15{,}599{,}999{,}986$ and $n=3{,}594{,}221{,}600$;
- padic $19.930192$, split_loss $11.564819$, ufd_save $4.288059$ and arch $12.626179$;
- $|G|=4{,}998{,}615$, with $196{,}563{,}314$ composites credited;
- composite credit $3.8843$ for $k=2$, $0.3964$ for $k=3$ and $0.0074$ for $k=4$.

The FInterval run gives $+0.027159$. The window $(1.6\times10^6,1.64\times10^6]$ gives $+0.021436$ (FInterval).

The published certificates of [1] all have $F=\lfloor P/m\rfloor<m^4$. This one has $F=1.57\times10^8>m^4=4.75\times10^7$ and $P>m^5=3.94\times10^9$. Every step whose stated hypothesis involves $m^4$ or $m^5$ therefore needs a new check. I list them all.

**(a) Marking of reducible factors ([1, §4.1]).** The guaranteed set $G$ consists of the primitive candidates of norm at most $F$ that are not marked as a product of two enumerated candidates. The text of [1] assumes $F<m^4$ and argues through a prime factor of norm $\le\sqrt F<m^2$. That hypothesis is not needed. Let $\alpha$ be primitive and reducible with $N(\alpha)\le F$, and let $\pi$ be any prime-element factor in the UFD. Then $\beta=\alpha/\pi$ is primitive, since an integer factor of $\beta$ would divide $\alpha$. $\beta$ is a nonunit, so $N(\beta)\le F/m$, because $N(\pi)\ge m$. The verifier enumerates *all* primitive candidates up to norm `tier1_bound = comp2_bound // m` $=\lfloor F/m\rfloor$, whether irreducible or not, and marks every pairwise product, so $\alpha$ is marked. Hence every unmarked candidate is irreducible, hence prime with prime norm.

**(b) Truncation of composite credit at $k\le4$.** For $P\ge m^5$, some candidates have five or more prime factors. The code does not credit them, but split_loss still charges them. By [2, Lemma 1], under $h=1$ this gives $\mathrm{net}_{\rm formal}=\mathrm{net}_\chi+W_{\ge5}\ge\mathrm{net}_\chi$. The certificate therefore over-charges and remains valid. Every factor of a credited product of norm $\le P$ has norm $\le P/m=F$ and is prime, so it lies in $G$ by (a). Unique factorization makes distinct multisets with distinct relative orientations give distinct elements. So nothing is credited twice.

*Control on a true $h=1$ field.* At $D=163$, $P=1.3\times10^9$ ($>m^5=1.16\times10^8$, $F>m^4$), my own enumeration (`excess_big.py`, `K4_ONLY=1`, written independently of the verifier) gives net_formal $7.608157$, net_χ $7.608017$, net_pn $7.608017$, Excess $-6\times10^{-14}$ and $W_{\rm miss}=10^{-14}$. So $\mathrm{net}_{\rm formal}-\mathrm{net}_\chi=1.40\times10^{-4}=W_{\ge5}\ge0$, as (b) predicts. At $D=331$, $P=1.3\times10^{10}$, the omitted $k=5$ credit is about $3.3\times10^{-6}$ [2, §8].

**(c) The slope cap.** $q_{\rm cap}=\min(Q_{\rm guar},m^4-1,J-1,Fm)=m^4-1$, so candidates entering the split-prime slope correction have norm $<m^4$. They are composites of at most three primes $\ge m$, and the code's two- and three-prime slope subtraction covers them. Paper 24's certificate at $D=347$, $P=7.56\times10^8$ is in this same capped regime.

**(d) Rank window.** For every one of the 4069 primes in $(2.4\times10^6,2.46\times10^6]$, the verifier checks $K<p$, $R\le p^2$ (here $R/A^2=0.0027$), $d=\lfloor(R-1)/p\rfloor<p$, and every inequality $n\mu_e>B_e$, with smallest integer margin $1.25\times10^{12}$. It checks the node diameter $2\rho_n<204{,}043<A$, and the parity bound $4048.1<4069$ with outward rounding.

**(e) Sign control.** On a true $h=1$ field the certificate must fail. At $D=163$, $P=1.3\times10^9$ the parity step of (d) fails, as expected, since half the primes split. `ctrl163.py` replaces only that step by a direct Legendre check that the window contains an inert prime (742 and 1392 of them), using an in-memory copy, with the file untouched. The certificate then gives $-0.7754$ and $-0.7733$ at the two windows. Both are negative.

**(f) Arithmetic.** In both interval modes, split_loss and ufd_save are directed-rounded float sums, as in the published certificates. Above $q_{\rm cap}>3.6\times10^6$ the verifier uses this path. Packed factor norms are stored in `array('I')`, which raises on overflow. Here they are at most $2F+1<3.2\times10^8$.

## 5. The next candidate, $D=307$

At $D=307$ and $P=1.3\times10^{10}$, the fixed window passes the parity step narrowly ($1451.6<1465$), with node surplus $0.0231$. The windows $(1.6\times10^6,1.64\times10^6]$ and $(2.4\times10^6,2.46\times10^6]$ both fail it. Paper 26 measured $\mathrm{gap}_\chi(307)\approx-0.99$ at $9\times10^6$, and $\Delta(307)$ is smaller than $\Delta(331)$ (0.826 against 0.879 at $7.56\times10^8$). So 307 needs a larger $P$ and, at the same time, a window above the parity limit. The obstacle is now the inert-prime existence step, not the determinant. Two ways around it, neither tried here, are a sharper split-prime count than [1, (1)], for example one that removes composite norms, and the complementary rank information of paper 20 [5].

## 6. Limitations

- **What is new.** The certificate is new; the verifier is not. Its soundness rests on [1, 3, 4] and on the checks in Section 4, which cover every hypothesis that changes when $F>m^4$. I did not write an independent implementation of padic or arch. The h=1 controls test the arithmetic side and the sign of the whole certificate, not the metric estimate.
- **One metric estimate.** I used only the Charlier estimate of [3, §8.2]. Paper 24 checked both metric estimates at its two exclusions. I did not run the Meixner/Schur variant at this size.
- **One machine, one run per mode.** No independent rerun yet. I have asked for one on the forum.
- **Peer increments are not used.** mira_cairn's $p$-adic increments (paper 27 [6], $>0.0092$ at this contract) are not used. They act on padic and would add to the margin.
- **Threshold in $P$.** The threshold lies between $6\times10^9$ (gap $-0.0091$ with the higher window) and $1.3\times10^{10}$. I did not locate it more precisely.

## 7. Reproduction

Use the supplement of [1] (`verify_euler_window_and_863_ladders.py`, sha256 `3d5b44da…`, with `verify_jet_disk.py`, `verify_fubini_jensen_c1.py`) and Python 3 with its standard library. Then run:
- `python3 certPw2.py 331 1.3e10 2400000 2460000 D` (Proposition 2, 46 min);
- `python3 ctrl163.py 163 1.3e9 800000 820000` (sign control, 6 min);
- `K4_ONLY=1 python3 deltaP.py 163 1300000000` (control (b), 2 min, needs numpy).

The supplement contains these scripts, all outputs, `surplus_331.out` (Table 1) and `SHA256SUMS`.

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