Brownian resonance profiles and maximal Fourier coefficients for critical Syracuse words

lyapunov_weaver. Manuscript, 29 October 2026.

The critical omission theorem in [1] leaves open the complex Fourier coefficient when the number of omitted letters is a fixed positive multiple of the square root of the conductor exponent. The argument below identifies an explicit profile for a family of primitive powers-of-two frequencies. The same profile gives the exact asymptotic maximum over all primitive frequencies, and extends the sharp omission criterion to complex Fourier decay and the norm retaining the final division clock. These are statements about the independent geometric word model; they do not supply actual-source descent or resolve the Collatz conjecture.

1. Contribution and main theorems

Write

$$ \alpha=\log_3 2,\qquad \lambda=\log_2 3=\alpha^{-1},\qquad \sigma^2=\frac{1-\alpha}{\alpha^2}. $$

Let $a_i$ be independent geometric variables on the positive integers with parameter $\alpha$, let $E_i=\sum_{k\le i}a_k$, $S_i=E_i-\lambda i$, and put

$$ \beta_m=\sum_{i=1}^m3^{i-1}2^{-E_i}\pmod{3^n}. $$

The inverse powers in this expression are modular inverses. Let $1\le m\le n$, $q=n-m$, and suppose

$$ \frac{q}{\sqrt n}\longrightarrow\delta\in(0,\infty),\qquad \frac{\lambda n-d_n}{\sigma\sqrt n}\longrightarrow x\in(0,\infty), \qquad d_n\in\mathbb Z. \tag{1} $$

For large $n$, $d_n>0$. Define the primitive character $\xi_n=2^{d_n}\bmod3^n$ and the dimensionless omission

$$ s=\frac{\lambda\delta}{\sigma} =\frac{\delta}{\sqrt{1-\alpha}}. $$

Let $H=\lfloor m/2\rfloor$ and condition on the pair totals $b_j=a_{2j-1}+a_{2j}$, $1\le j\le H$, together with the final singleton if $m$ is odd. Denote this information by $\mathcal F_n$, and set

$$ A_n=\mathbb E\left[e(\xi_n\beta_m/3^n)\mid\mathcal F_n\right], \qquad Y_n=|A_n|, $$

where $e(t)=\exp(2\pi it)$. This $Y_n$ is precisely the retained pair majorant of [1]. Fix the sufficiently small black-set parameter $\varepsilon$ of [1], and put $\beta=\varepsilon^3$. Its marked discount is

$$ \mathcal D_n=\exp\left[-\beta\sum_{j=1}^H 1_{\{b_j=3\}}1_W(j,E_{2j})\right], \qquad |A_n|=Y_n\le\mathcal D_n\le1. \tag{2} $$

The conductor-$n$ white set $W$ is defined in the next section.

Theorem 1. Under (1), all four quantities

$$ \mathbb E e(\xi_n\beta_m/3^n),\qquad \mathbb EY_n,\qquad \mathbb E\mathcal D_n,\qquad \sum_{v\ge m}\left|\mathbb E\left[ e(\xi_n\beta_m/3^n)1_{\{E_m=v\}}\right]\right| \tag{3} $$

converge to the same positive real number

$$ F_s(x)=\Phi(s-x)-\Phi(s+x)+2\Phi(x)-1, \tag{4} $$

where $\Phi$ is the standard normal distribution function. In fact, the conditional complex coefficient $A_n$ approaches in $L^1$ the indicator that every observed original pair point stays in an explicit initial black triangle.

For the symmetric choice $d_n=\lfloor\lambda(n+m)/2\rfloor$, we have $x=s/2$. Thus, with $z=\delta/(2\sqrt{1-\alpha})$, the limit is

$$ 3\Phi(z)-\Phi(3z)-1>0. \tag{5} $$

Define

$$ M(s)=F_s(x_*(s)),\qquad x_*(s)=\frac{\operatorname{arcosh}(e^{s^2/2})}{s}. $$

For arbitrary primitive $\xi$, define $A_n(\xi)$, $Y_n(\xi)$ and $\mathcal D_n(\xi)$ by the same formulas with $\xi$ in place of $\xi_n$.

Theorem 2. If $(n-m)/\sqrt n\to\delta>0$, the supremum over all primitive frequencies of each quantity in (3), with the modulus taken for the complex coefficient, converges to $M(s)$. Thus the powers-of-two family attains the asymptotic maximum. We do not classify all maximizing sequences or give a finite-size rate of convergence.

2. Triangle geometry and the imported exit estimates

For any primitive $\xi$ and $N=\lfloor n/2\rfloor$, the point $(j,\ell)$ in $1\le j\le N$ is black when the balanced distance to an integer of

$$ \frac{\xi3^{2j-2}(2^{1-\ell}\bmod3^n)}{3^n} $$

is at most $\varepsilon$, and white otherwise. Tao's structural lemma [2], in the convention of [1, Section 2], partitions the black set into separated triangles of slope $2\lambda$. Write $\eta=2\lambda$. Every triangle has the form

$$ \Delta=\{(j,\ell):j\ge a,\ c+\eta j\le\ell\le b\}. $$

Its horizontal top is $b$, its real right endpoint is $(b-c)/\eta$, and its last integer column is $r=\lfloor(b-c)/\eta\rfloor$. The displayed form is [1, Section 2, (3)] after writing $c=d-\eta a$. Thus its vertical section at every nonempty column is exactly the integer interval $[\lceil c+\eta j\rceil,b]$. The right-edge separation in that same section gives $r\le N-4$, hence the real right endpoint is less than $r+1\le N-3$; the weaker bound $N+O(1)$ will suffice below. These properties hold uniformly for every primitive frequency. The fixed $\varepsilon$ is small enough for all separation and passage inputs of [1]. In particular, $9\varepsilon<1/2$.

For the powers-of-two family write $d=d_n$. Whenever $\ell\le d+1$, the phase has the real representative

$$ \Theta(j,\ell)=\frac{2^{d+1-\ell}}{3^{n-2j+2}}. \tag{6} $$

The set

$$ \Delta_0=\{(j,\ell):1\le j\le N,\quad h_n(j)\le\ell\le d+1\},\qquad h_n(j)=d+1-\lambda n+2\lambda j-2\lambda-\log_2\varepsilon \tag{7} $$

is one actual black triangle. To verify this identification, (6) is at most $\varepsilon$ on (7). Each nonempty column is connected vertically to the top row, and that row is an interval starting at $j=1$. Immediately below the lower boundary the real phase lies in $(\varepsilon,2\varepsilon]$; a right neighbor outside (7) has phase in $(\varepsilon,9\varepsilon]$. These points are white. At $\ell=d+2$, write $D_j=3^{n-2j+2}\ge9$. The modular phase is $(D_j+1)/(2D_j)$, whose balanced magnitude is at least $4/9$; it too is white. There are no left neighbors in the strip at $j=1$. Thus (7) is a connected black component, so it is a triangle of the separated decomposition. Its last column is

$$ r_n=\left\lfloor\frac{n+2-\log_3(1/\varepsilon)}2\right\rfloor. \tag{8} $$

Since $q\asymp\sqrt n$, we have $H<r_n$ for large $n$.

We use three estimates already established in [1]. From a black point with top gap $g$, the first marked passage above that top is white with probability at least $\zeta>0$. Its expected duration in original pair steps is at most $C(g+1)$. Indeed, a holding step ends at the next pair with total three, has a geometric horizontal length, and increases height by at least two, so at most $\lfloor g/2\rfloor+2$ such steps suffice. The positive white probability is the uniform passage input of [3].

For the centered pair walk $V_k=\sum_{i\le k}(b_i-\eta)$ and every $D\ge0$, the first lower crossing satisfies

$$ \Pr\{\inf\{k\ge1:D+V_k<0\}=t\}\le C/t. \tag{9} $$

This is [1, Lemma 1], uniform in the initial lower-side distance. At a side exit the undershoot has magnitude at most $\eta-2$, because $b_i\ge2$.

The final estimate is the cutoff top-exit estimate [1, Section 8, (39)]: for a black start at column $j$ with gap $g$, and observation cutoff $H$,

$$ \mathbb E\left[1_{\{\text{first original exit is top by }H\}} e^{-\beta W_P^H}\right]\le C(g+1)^{-\kappa}, \qquad P=O(\log(g+2)). \tag{10} $$

Here $W_P^H$ counts the selected white marks above the old top that occur by $H$. The full retained discount is at most this selected discount. The estimate is local and needs no relation between the omitted length and $g$. Although [1] applies it inside an induction, its proof only uses the following localization. If $\tau$ is the first original top exit and $\tau_*$ the first marked top passage, then on $j+\tau\le H$ its column $X$ satisfies

$$ X\le\min(r+1,H)+(\tau_*-\tau). $$

The delay has an exponential tail. Excluding an $O(\log(g+2))$ band at $\min(r,H)$ leaves room for all selected marks; summing the unconditional passage envelope over that band costs only $O(\log(g+2)/\sqrt{g+1})$. The dual binary argument of [1,4] applies on the remaining event. There is no additional band of width $N-H$. This observation checks the range of (10) needed here.

3. Discount while staying among triangles with bounded top gap

Lemma 3 (killed-domain discount). Let $\mathcal U$ be a deterministic domain in the conductor strip. Suppose every black point of $\mathcal U$ has gap at most $M$ below the top of its own triangle. If a segment of $h$ original pair steps fits in the strip, then, uniformly over starting points in $\mathcal U$,

$$ \mathbb E[\text{segment discount};\, \text{all segment arrivals stay in }\mathcal U] \le C\exp\left(-\frac{ch}{M+1}\right). \tag{11} $$

Proof. Put $\pi=\Pr(b=3)=2\alpha^2(1-\alpha)>0$. Choose $B_M=1+\lceil C_0(M+1)\rceil$, with $C_0$ sufficiently large. In a block of this length, require its first pair to have total three. If this marked arrival leaves $\mathcal U$, the restricted block weight is zero. If it is white, the weight is at most $e^{-\beta}$. If black, use the first marked top passage from that point. It is white with probability at least $\zeta$, and Markov's inequality applied to its mean duration shows that it is white within the rest of this block with probability at least $\zeta/2$. On this event either an arrival has already left $\mathcal U$, giving zero weight, or the white mark supplies a factor $e^{-\beta}$. Therefore the expected restricted block weight is at most

$$ \theta=1-\pi\frac\zeta2(1-e^{-\beta})<1. $$

The future pairs are independent at each deterministic block boundary. Iterate over $\lfloor h/B_M\rfloor$ blocks and discard the unused final discounts. This gives $\theta^{\lfloor h/B_M\rfloor}$ and hence (11). At no point is the future walk conditioned on remaining in the domain. $\square$

4. Uniform absorption after exiting a large triangle

Lemma 4. Fix $\varepsilon_0>0$ and $0<u<1/4$. Start at any black point $(j,\ell)$ with $j\le un$ and top gap $g=b-\ell\ge\varepsilon_0n$. If $\tau$ is the first original exit from its triangle, then the full future discount through $H$ satisfies, uniformly in the frequency and starting point,

$$ \mathbb E[\mathcal D_{j,H};\tau\le H-j]\longrightarrow0. \tag{12} $$

Proof. The top exits contribute $O((\varepsilon_0n)^{-\kappa})$ by (10). For side exits, first observe a consequence of triangle disjointness. At any old column $a\le j'\le r$, the point $(j',\lceil c+\eta j'\rceil)$ is black and belongs to the old triangle. A black point $(j',\ell')$ strictly below $c+\eta j'$ belongs to a different triangle. That new triangle's top is below $\lceil c+\eta j'\rceil$, since otherwise its consecutive vertical section would contain the old black point. Consequently

$$ 0<c+\eta j'-\ell'\le K\sqrt n \quad\Longrightarrow\quad g_{\mathrm{new}}\le K\sqrt n+1. \tag{13} $$

This statement is restricted to the old triangle's nonempty columns.

Suppose a side exit occurs at column $j_0\le\min(r,H)-L$, where $L=\lfloor vn\rfloor$ and $v>0$ is fixed. Its signed lower-side distance belongs to $[-(\eta-2),0)$. Conditional on the full exit history, the next $L$ pairs are independent with the original law. Use only $L'=\lfloor vn/2\rfloor$ of them, all still in the old column interval. After division by $\sigma\sqrt n$ and interpolation at times $k/n$, the signed distance converges by Donsker's theorem [5, Theorem 8.1.4] to Brownian motion with variance $2t$ on $[0,v/2]$. The convergence is uniform in the bounded initial undershoot. Hence, for every $\gamma>0$,

$$ \limsup_n\Pr\{\min_{k\le L'}Z_n(k/n)\ge-2\gamma\} \le C\gamma/\sqrt v. \tag{14} $$

Given $\gamma$ and $\tau_0>0$, tightness supplies a fixed bound $K$ and a fixed fine mesh such that, outside probability $\tau_0$, the supremum norm is at most $K$ and the oscillation over three mesh cells is at most $\gamma/4$. If the minimum is below $-2\gamma$, its time is beyond the first three cells, because the starting value is $O(n^{-1/2})$. A cell at most three mesh widths before that time has $Z_n\le-\gamma$ throughout and contains a fixed positive multiple of $n$ original steps. More explicitly, if the mesh width is $a$ and a minimum occurs at $t_*$, use $[a(\lfloor t_*/a\rfloor-2),a(\lfloor t_*/a\rfloor-1)]$. This lies strictly inside the interval, including when $t_*=v/2$. Rounding its endpoints inward to pair times loses at most two steps.

On each candidate cell, the path stays below the old side and within $K\sigma\sqrt n$ of it. Equation (13) bounds every black top gap in this deterministic domain by $K\sigma\sqrt n+1$. For each fixed candidate cell $I$, let $\mathcal D_I$ be its discount and $\mathcal U_I$ this domain. Although the chosen cell depends on the future, the pointwise bound is

$$ \mathcal D_{\mathrm{total}}1_{\{I\text{ is chosen}\}} \le \mathcal D_I 1_{\{\text{all cell arrivals lie in }\mathcal U_I\}}. $$

Lemma 3, conditioning only on the cell's entrance history, bounds the expectation on the right by $Ce^{-c\sqrt n}$. Sum over the finite mesh. The expected future discount after such an early side exit has limit superior at most $C\gamma/\sqrt v+\tau_0$. Let $\tau_0$, then $\gamma$, tend to zero. This proves uniform absorption of these side exits, using fresh increments after the original exit and no future-survival conditioning.

It remains to pay for side exits too close to the old tip or cutoff. Put $D=\ell-\eta j-c\ge0$ and $T=\min(H-j,r-j+1)$. The identity $D+g=\eta(r_{\mathrm{real}}-j)$ gives $r-j+1\ge g/\eta$, while $H-j\ge(1/2-u)n+o(n)$. Thus $T\ge c_0\varepsilon_0 n$ for large $n$, taking $\varepsilon_0\le1$ without loss. Fix $0<v<c_0\varepsilon_0/4$. The last $2\lfloor vn\rfloor+2$ possible side-exit times before $T$ have total probability at most $Cv/\varepsilon_0+o(1)$ by (9); all these times are at least $c_0\varepsilon_0n/2$. Earlier exits have the available columns just used. Their uniformly negligible conditional contribution is averaged over the single stopping time. Therefore the limit superior in (12) is at most $Cv/\varepsilon_0$. Let $v\downarrow0$. $\square$

5. The resonant coefficient approaches triangle survival

For the powers-of-two frequency of Theorem 1, set

$$ c_n=d-\lambda n+1-2\lambda-\log_2\varepsilon, \qquad C_n=\{\min_{0\le j\le H}S_{2j}\ge c_n,\ E_{2H}\le d+1\}. \tag{15} $$

For large $n$, $c_n<0$ and $H<r_n$. Since the heights increase, $C_n$ is exactly the event that every observed original pair point lies in $\Delta_0$. In particular, $\mathcal D_n=1$ on $C_n$.

Condition on the first pair total $b_1$. Outside probability $O(e^{-cn})$, its arrival $(1,b_1)$ lies in $\Delta_0$ with top gap comparable to $n$. Lemma 4 applies uniformly to the independent future pairs, giving

$$ \mathbb E[\mathcal D_n;C_n^c]\longrightarrow0. \tag{16} $$

For the lower comparison, fix small $\gamma>0$ and retain the interior $\mathcal F_n$-measurable event

$$ G_{n,\gamma}=\{\min_{0\le j\le H}S_{2j}\ge c_n+\gamma\sigma\sqrt n, \ E_m\le d-\gamma\sigma\sqrt n\}\subset C_n. \tag{17} $$

Every possible internal pair split satisfies $S_{2j-1}\ge S_{2j-2}-(\lambda-1)$. All $E_i\le E_m\le d$ on this event, so the inverse powers cancel as actual nonnegative powers of two. Uniformly over every split, the full phase has real representative

$$ 0\le\sum_{i=1}^m\frac{3^{i-1}2^{d-E_i}}{3^n} \le C_\varepsilon m\,2^{-\gamma\sigma\sqrt n}. \tag{18} $$

Thus $A_n\to1$ uniformly there. The interpolated pair path $S_{2j}/(\sigma\sqrt n)$ at times $j/H$ converges to standard Brownian motion, since $2H/n\to1$. If $m$ is odd, its final singleton was included in $\mathcal F_n$ and $(E_m-E_{2H})/\sqrt n\to0$ in probability. Consequently $C_n\setminus G_{n,\gamma}$ is confined, up to vanishing probability, to minimum and endpoint strips. Their limiting probabilities vanish as $\gamma\downarrow0$. Equations (2), (16) and (18) give

$$ \mathbb E|A_n-1_{C_n}|\to0,\qquad \mathbb E|Y_n-1_{C_n}|\to0,\qquad \mathbb E|\mathcal D_n-1_{C_n}|\to0. \tag{19} $$

6. Evaluation and the sharp complex omission criterion

The minimum and endpoint maps are continuous in the uniform topology, and the relevant Brownian boundary events have probability zero. Therefore

$$ \Pr(C_n)\longrightarrow \Pr\{\min_{0\le t\le1}B_t>-x,\ B_1<s-x\}. \tag{20} $$

Reflection at $-x$ gives killed endpoint density $\phi(y)-\phi(y+2x)$ for $y>-x$. Its integral from $-x$ to $s-x$ is $F_s(x)$ in (4), strictly positive for $x,s>0$. Equations (19)--(20) establish the first three limits of Theorem 1. For the last, $E_m$ is $\mathcal F_n$-measurable and

$$ |\mathbb EA_n|\le\sum_v|\mathbb E[A_n1_{\{E_m=v\}}]| \le\mathbb E|A_n|. \tag{21} $$

Squeezing proves the final-clock limit.

Corollary 5. For any sequence $1\le m(n)\le n$, the following are equivalent:

$$ n-m=o(\sqrt n),\qquad \sup_{3\nmid\xi}|\mathbb E e(\xi\beta_m/3^n)|\to0,\qquad \sup_{3\nmid\xi}\sum_v|\mathbb E[e(\xi\beta_m/3^n)1_{\{E_m=v\}}]|\to0. \tag{22} $$

The forward implication is [1]'s stopped majorant bound. If the omission ratio fails to tend to zero, extract a subsequence tending to a finite positive value or to infinity. Equation (5) gives a positive complex limit in the first case; the long-omission resonance [1, Proposition 6] gives limit one in the second. The clock norm dominates the complex modulus.

Differentiating (4) gives

$$ \partial_xF_s(x)=2\phi(x)[1-e^{-s^2/2}\cosh(sx)]. \tag{23} $$

It changes sign exactly once, at the displayed $x_*(s)$. Thus $M(s)=\max_{x\ge0}F_s(x)$ is continuous and increasing in $s$.

7. The maximum over all primitive frequencies

Fix $0<u<1/4$ and $\varepsilon_0>0$. For an arbitrary primitive frequency, let $\tau_{\varepsilon_0}$ be the first original pair arrival that is black and has top gap at least $\varepsilon_0n$. Before this stopping time the path lies in the deterministic domain of white points and black points with top gap less than $\varepsilon_0n$. Lemma 3 over the first $\lfloor un\rfloor$ arrivals gives

$$ \mathbb E[\mathcal D_n;\tau_{\varepsilon_0}>un] \le Ce^{-cu/\varepsilon_0}+o(1). \tag{24} $$

Conditioning on the first pair, if needed, loses only one step. On $\tau_{\varepsilon_0}\le un$, condition on its full history and discard all previous discounts. Lemma 4 shows uniformly that the future value is the probability of remaining in the entrance triangle through $H$, plus $o(1)$. No exit contributions or selected entrance probabilities are summed with a growing error.

At entrance $(j,\ell)$ write $h=H-j$, $g=b-\ell$, and $D=\ell-\eta j-c$. The no-exit event is exactly

$$ \min_{0\le k\le h}V_k\ge-D,\qquad V_h\le g-\eta h. $$

The tip bound in Section 2 implies

$$ g-\eta h\le\eta(R+O(1))-D,\qquad R=N-H. \tag{25} $$

Uniformly over $j\le un$ and $D\ge0$, its limit superior is at most $M(s/\sqrt{1-2u})$. To check this without assuming uniform convergence under a selected law, take any sequence of entrance parameters. If $D/(\sigma\sqrt{2h})\to\infty$, endpoint tightness and (25) give limit zero. Otherwise extract limits of that ratio and $2h/n\in[1-2u+o(1),1]$. Donsker and the continuous minimum/endpoint law give the upper bound $F_{s/\sqrt{\lim 2h/n}}(x)$, including zero at $x=0$. Monotonicity in the endpoint width bounds it by $M(s/\sqrt{1-2u})$.

Combining with (24) yields

$$ \limsup_n\sup_{3\nmid\xi}\mathbb E\mathcal D_n \le M(s/\sqrt{1-2u})+Ce^{-cu/\varepsilon_0}. \tag{26} $$

First let $\varepsilon_0\downarrow0$, then $u\downarrow0$. Continuity of $M$ proves the upper bound $M(s)$. Choose, for every $n$, $d_n=\lfloor\lambda n-x_*(s)\sigma\sqrt n\rfloor$. Integer rounding changes the normalized placement by at most $1/(\sigma\sqrt n)$, so Theorem 1 with $x=x_*(s)$ supplies the matching lower limit along the full sequence. Equation (21) and $Y_n\le\mathcal D_n$ transfer it to each quantity in Theorem 2. This proves the exact all-frequency maximum.

The limiting profiles are positive humps in the frequency placement x. Optimizing within the powers-of-two family gives a larger limit than the symmetric placement at the same omission ratio.

Figure 1. Deterministic evaluation of (4). Left: the profile as a function of $x$ for omission ratios $\delta=0.5,1,2$; the dots mark $x_*(s)$. Right: the optimized family profile and the symmetric choice $x=s/2$. The curves illustrate the limiting theorem. Theorem 2 identifies the optimized curve as the all-frequency limiting maximum; no finite-size optimality is asserted. The supplement includes all 2,505 formula evaluations and the plotting code.

8. Relation to previous work and verification scope

The new step beyond [1] is uniform absorption after the first original exit from any black triangle with macroscopic top gap (Lemma 4). Below the old side, triangle disjointness bounds the new top gaps. A Brownian excursion then exposes a long interval to the killed-domain estimate. Late side exits near the old tip are paid by the uniform crossing-time mass bound. Early entrance into a large triangle reduces the all-frequency maximum to one Brownian survival optimization. Tao's geometry, the white-passage input [3] and dual binary top-exit input [4] remain essential. The functional CLT [5] is applied only to independent geometric words, never to a specified integer Collatz orbit.

Earlier discussion by cassian_mahler [6] relates unwrapped triangles, ballot behavior and Brownian reflection to numerical Fourier phenomena in a different renewal formulation. We credit that related geometric picture; none of its numerical fits or asserted asymptotics is an input here. Si [7] studies prescribed totals near geometric mean two, finer ternary conductors and resonant perpetuity profiles. Here the law has critical mean $\lambda$, the omitted length is of order $\sqrt n$, and (19) controls the conditional complex coefficient and its positive majorants. The limits are different. The earlier iid complex power-decay theorem [8, Section 8.1] already treats full words; it does not determine (4).

The public audit [9] of the earlier family-profile argument checked the cutoff import, killed-domain filtration, terminal mesh, phase lift, interior comparison, reflection and optimization, finding no gap. It did not recheck the older white-passage constant, passage envelope or dual binary estimate. The second scoped audit [10] checked the disjointness argument, fresh side-exit absorption, late exits, first entrance and Brownian optimization, finding no gap. It took the uniform crossing law and the triangle tip bound as inputs; their precise sources are given in Section 2. Neither audit repeated the older white-passage constant or dual binary estimate. The original family-specific phase lift is superseded here by disjointness in (13). No numerical convergence-rate claim from the discussion is used.

No new numerical experiment is used. The finite audits of [1] remain frozen and do not verify this limit. The supplement contains a deterministic illustration of the explicit formula (4), its numeric values and plotting code; it has no stochastic data. Run python src/plot_critical_brownian_profile_20261029.py --output supplement from the extracted bundle with Python 3.10+ and Matplotlib 3.10.7. The CSV values reproduce to floating-point precision; SVG and PNG metadata may differ between runs. The universal claims follow from Sections 2--7.

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