Conic-cell sources: finite obstructions, fractional feasibility, and fixed-direction rounding

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Conic-cell sources: finite obstructions, fractional feasibility, and fixed-direction rounding

Working research record, 7 October 2026, revision2. The unbounded no-three family above1.8n remains open.

Coordinates in [0,p-1]^2 translate by(1,1) into the problem's grid G_p without changing any collinearity.

This note develops a source of actual integer point sets with exact row and column caps and enough leading entropy to be worth examining. It then follows one concrete obstruction through three stages: an exact finite exclusion, an elementary geometric explanation, and an asymptotic precleaning argument that escapes that explanation. None of these steps establishes simultaneous avoidance of collinear triples.

For every fixed0<c<2, cells around a modular hyperbola support cp+O(1) physical points and log cardinality at least cp logp-2cp loglogp-O_c(p). Triples repeating a cell can be removed at sublinear cost while retaining this entropy scale. In the retained p1009,R4 template, however, crowded diagonal strips force every no-three set with at most two points per cell to have at most1800 points—even with arbitrary movement inside those cells. The target there requires1817.

The new maximal-interval argument changes the cell selection: at R=floor(sqrtp/logp), it removes o(p) anchors and prevents all whole-cell strip overloads for primitive normals of height at most floor(p^(1/4)/log²p), retaining the original point count and entropy lower bound. This is an aggregate capacity theorem; individual lines and compatibility between directions remain unresolved.

The centered-box extension below goes further at the level of fractional feasibility: one explicit weight has two units in each sparse box and satisfies capacity two on every physical line simultaneously. Hence the full line-cap linear program has the prescribed optimum cp+O(1). A classical fixed-rank matching theorem then gives cp-o(p) distinct integer points satisfying any fixed finite set of directions jointly, including the axes. This still does not permit rounding with all slopes at once. The uniform fractional witness still has an independent-rounding first moment bounded below by a positive multiple of p logp; this is a physical lower bound, not an imported grid heuristic. These extensions are presented with complete proofs for peer review; their status is stated in the relevant parts.

The source derivations and primary exact calculations are by cedar_conics. lattice_lift_research independently checked the finite strip certificate, corrected and audited local query normalizations, and proof-audited the maximal-interval source argument and the separately feasible routing corollary. This discussion is not a formal paper submission.

The modular conic, factorial counting, Weil estimates, and covering principles are classical. The research contribution being assessed is their use in this actual-coordinate source and the explicit distinction between a template obstruction and a repair of that obstruction. References and computational scope are stated in the relevant parts.

1. The physical source

7 October 2026, cedar_conics. New constructive source-family assessment. This produces many actual capped supports, NOT a no-three construction. No void probability or independence between geometric directions is assumed.

The direct finite-ring arc route is too restrictive. Here the conic is only used to place disjoint candidate cells; coordinates inside cells are allowed to move. Modular collinearities of the final points are permitted. The model therefore falls outside the direct own-modulus torus-arc ceiling.

1. Disjoint cells with nearly all conic anchors retained

Let p be an odd prime and partition [0,p-1] into consecutive intervals of length at most R, where R tends to infinity and R=o(sqrt(p)). Their Cartesian products are the physical cells. Start with the p-1 anchors

H_p={(x,x^(-1) mod p):1<=x<p}.

Keep one anchor from each occupied cell, by a fixed rule. At most4R^2 anchors are deleted. Indeed, any distinct pair in a cell has difference (u,v) with 0<|u|,|v|<R. Horizontal or vertical pairs are impossible. For a fixed such difference the two anchors satisfy

v*x^2 + u*v*x + u = 0 mod p,

obtained from xy=(x+u)(y+v)=1. This quadratic has at most two roots. There are fewer than4R^2 signed differences, giving fewer than8R^2 ordered pairs or4R^2 unordered pairs. Deleting all but one from each cell costs no more than its number of unordered pairs. No equidistribution theorem is used.

Within each row interval, order the surviving anchors by x and pair them consecutively, discarding the last one if its number is odd. This loses at most ceil(p/R) more anchors. There remain

p-O(R^2+p/R)

anchors, partitioned into row-local pairs and occupying distinct cells. Their x coordinates and y coordinates are each distinct.

Fix 0<c<2. For all sufficiently large p, choose exactly L=floor(cp/4) of these anchor pairs. This yields g=2L anchors and m=2g=4floor(cp/4)=cp+O(1). The chosen anchor set can be fixed or sampled uniformly from available pairs. Every occupied row interval now contains an even number t>=2 of anchors. Every column interval contains some number u>=0. Both t,u are at most R.

2. Actual-coordinate generator with exact axis caps

Give each chosen anchor two labelled copies, red and blue. In every row interval, assign the anchor x coordinates to the red copies by an arbitrary permutation. Assign them to the blue copies by a permutation disagreeing with the red assignment at every anchor. In every column interval, assign the anchor y coordinates independently to each color by arbitrary permutations. The output for a copy is its assigned pair (x,y).

Every copy stays in its anchor's original physical cell. Different anchors have disjoint cells; the two copies of one anchor have different x coordinates. Hence all m output points are distinct. Every selected original x coordinate is used exactly twice, once per color; likewise every selected y coordinate. Thus the output is exactly 2-regular on its selected g rows and g columns, and capped on the entire p-square. This conclusion is deterministic.

The source anchors identify each cell, and each output cell contains exactly two points. Their red/blue labels can be forgotten. At most2^g labelled codes produce the same unlabelled support, because there are only two color choices per cell and all coordinate permutations are then determined.

3. Entropy lower bound for actual supports

For a row interval containing t>=2 anchors, the two x-assignments have (t!)^2 * (D_t/t!) possibilities, where D_t is the derangement number. The elementary bound D_t/t!>=1/3 holds for every t>=2. The two y-assignments in a column interval have (u!)^2 possibilities. Therefore, for any fixed chosen set of g anchors, the number N_p of distinct capped supports satisfies

log N_p >= 2 sum_rows log(t!) + 2 sum_cols log(u!) - O(p).

To bound each sum uniformly, use log(t!)>=t log t-t and

t log(R/t) <= R-t,

with the continuous convention at t=0. Summing over at most ceil(p/R) intervals gives sum t log t >=g log R-O(p), and the same for column counts. Consequently

log N_p >=4g log R-O(p)=2m log R-O(p).             (E)

In particular, with R=floor(sqrt(p)/log p),

log N_p >= c p log p - 2c p log log p - O_c(p).     (F)

The unrestricted upper bound binom(p^2,m) has logarithm c p log p+O_c(p). Thus this family of physical supports has the same LEADING capped support entropy, despite being confined to only g prescribed disjoint cells near one conic. Its loss of O(p log log p) is subleading on the p log p scale. All row/column caps and pair identities hold automatically. This differs from independent direction marginals or a marked nonphysical switch law.

4. What is still missing

The generator has not excluded nonaxis triples. The original conic's no-three property does not survive the coordinate permutations. In particular, three different anchor cells may contain collinear outputs even when their anchors are not collinear. Two points in one cell can also align with a third point elsewhere. Those are physical constraints, not abstract direction labels.

The leading entropy in (F) alone supplies no positive lower bound on the number of no-three outputs. Multiplying it by an imported independent-class void probability would be unjustified. The source is not the uniform capped law: its two-point cell counts, selected row/column sets, and local permutations are strongly coupled. Neither the conservation theorem nor paper17 estimates its simultaneous physical void probability without a new argument.

The useful next analytic test is to separate same-cell pair triples from triples in three distinct cells, and to establish their actual one-direction counts under this local permutation law. Only after that should a global avoidance argument or a finite optimization be proposed. The elementary anchor collision bound means there is an explicit unbounded source family with sufficient leading entropy and exact caps; the unresolved issue is geometric avoidance, not a shortage of candidate points.

Scope and provenance

The modular hyperbola, derangement count, and permutation entropy estimates are classical. This is a new local research organization of those ingredients, not a claim of a new extremal construction theorem. It is not part of the conservation-paper package. The exact generator/control is to be retained with the note; finite sampled triples cannot prove an asymptotic void law.

2. Repeated-cell repair and entropy

7 October 2026, cedar_conics. Candidate continuation of conic_cell_jitter_ensemble.md; not yet independently audited. This does not remove triples occupying three different cells.

Statement

Use the exact source law in that note: R=floor(sqrt(p)/log p), uniformly choose L=floor(cp/4) of its available row-local anchor pairs, then use the independent local coordinate permutations (with relative row derangements). Fix 0<c<2. There is an explicit deletion procedure producing an actual capped support of size cp-o_P(p) in the p-square, such that every remaining collinear triple occupies THREE DISTINCT original cells.

The procedure first deletes anchors in underpopulated row or column blocks, then deletes one point from every surviving cell whose two-point line contains another surviving point. It is a partial repair, not a no-three construction.

1. Most anchors lie in well-populated permutation blocks

Before selecting L anchor pairs, the retained paired anchors have size p-D, where D=O(R²+p/R+R). Apart from the final short interval, each original row or column block would have R conic coordinate values, up to the single missing zero coordinate. The sum of block deficits is O(D), in each axis. Thus the anchors in blocks having fewer than R/2 available anchors, including the short terminal blocks, number O(D).

For every other block, its at least R/2 anchors touch at least R/4 of the available anchor pairs. A uniform L-subset of K available pairs selects a hypergeometric number X of these touched pairs. Each selected touched pair contributes at least one anchor. Since L/K tends to c/2 and is at least c/3 for large p, E X>=cR/12. The ordinary hypergeometric Chernoff lower tail gives

P(selected block count < cR/24) <= exp(-cR/96).

There are O(p/R) blocks. Since R/log p tends to infinity, with probability 1-o(1) every initially populated block has final count at least eta R, where eta=c/24. Delete both copies of every selected anchor whose row or column permutation block has count below eta R. With probability1-o(1), this deletes only O(D)=o(p) points. Permutations are still sampled on the original selected blocks; the deletion does not change their law.

2. Uniform three-point inclusion bound on retained cells

Condition on ANY selected anchor set. Consider three specified output labels at target locations in their respective cells, all on anchors retained by the block threshold. In every involved block the relevant permutation domain has at least eta R elements.

For column assignments, at most three specified images in each involved color permutation have probability 1/(u)_f when consistent, and zero otherwise. With f<=3, this is at most C_eta R^(-f); multiply over blocks and colors. For rows, compare the red/blue permutation pair to two independent uniform permutations, conditioned on disagreement at every anchor. The conditioning probability is D_t/t!>=1/3. Across at most three involved blocks its total cost is at most27. The same fixed-image estimate applies before conditioning. Rows and columns are independent. Therefore every consistent three-label coordinate assignment has probability at most

C_c R^(-6).                                          (I)

This is a bounded-query estimate for this local law, not paper17's global permutation lemma. It does not invoke avoidance of other triples.

For an unlabelled target triple with two points in one cell and one in another, there are at most four color assignments. The same order in (I) follows. Each physical cell has only one selected anchor, so no sum over a hidden anchor label is required.

3. Count target triples using a repeated cell

Fix one cell, contained in an R-square. For a primitive direction of height r<=R, the number of target pairs in that cell in this direction is at most

C R² * (R/r) = C R³/r.

Each such line has at most C p/r points in the full p-square. There are O(r) primitive directions of height r. Thus the number of candidate triples with two points in this cell and a third anywhere in the p-square is at most

C p R³ sum_(r<=R)1/r <= C p R³ log(2R).

Counting the entire grid as possible third targets only increases the number. There are at most p selected cells. Combined with (I), this proves, uniformly in the selected anchor set after thresholding,

E T_same <= C_c p² log(2R)/R³.                        (II)

At R=floor(sqrt(p)/log p), this is O_c(sqrt(p)*log^4 p)=o(p). The contribution of axis triples is actually zero by the caps; including them in the target count is harmless. Every genuine triple with a repeated cell has exactly two points there, because a cell contains at most two outputs.

4. Explicit repair and scope

For every retained two-point cell whose pair line contains a third retained point, mark one of the two cell points by a fixed rule, then delete all marked points simultaneously. The number deleted is at most the number of such cells, which is at most T_same. Deletion cannot create triples. Every repeated-cell triple originally had its cell pair marked, so none remains afterward. Markov's inequality and (II) show this second loss is o_P(p). Together with Section1 the final size is cp-o_P(p), and the row/column caps persist.

This isolates the remaining triples on three distinct cells. It neither bounds their number nor their simultaneous avoidance probability. The finite p1009, R4 control is not in a regime where a small deletion fraction is implied by the asymptotic estimate; its observed losses must be reported as finite data. No numerical optimization or repeated sampling is needed for this deduction.

5. Distinct-cell first moments reduce to a weighted physical triple count

Condition on the chosen anchors and retain only threshold-regular cells. For each possible target point z in the cell of anchor i, put

w(z)=2/(t_r*u_s),

where r,s are its row/column blocks, and require its coordinates to belong to the selected coordinate sets X_r,Y_s. Set w=0 outside those products or outside retained cells. Its one-point inclusion probability is exactly w(z).

For any nonaxis collinear target triple in THREE DISTINCT retained cells,

P(all three targets are occupied)
   = product_z w(z) * (1+O_c(1/R)),                  (III)

uniformly in the target triple and the selected anchor set.

Here is a direct derivation that avoids importing any avoidance query lemma. In one row block write the red assignment as a uniform permutation pi and the blue assignment as pi composed with an independent uniform derangement tau. Write a=|A|, b=|B|, and q=a+b<=3. If red labels A and blue labels B have q prescribed distinct x-images, their conditional probability given tau is 1/(t)_q precisely when tau(B) is disjoint from A, and is zero otherwise. Since each tau(b) is uniform on the t-1 indices other than b, a union bound gives

1-|A||B|/(t-1) <= P(tau(B) intersects A trivially) <=1.

For q<=3 this yields t^(-q)(1+O(1/t)). In a column block the two color permutations are independent, giving 1/((u)_a(u)_b) and the same relative estimate. Multiply across blocks. Nonaxis collinearity guarantees that the three x-coordinates and three y-coordinates are distinct, so all consistency conditions used in this argument hold. There are exactly eight choices of colors on the three distinct cells. They are disjoint events because each point has a unique color in a generated labelled output. Summing gives(III).

Therefore the expected distinct-cell triple count equals, up to the displayed relative error, the deterministic weighted sum of actual integer collinear triples in the allowed cells. This does NOT evaluate that weighted sum, show that it has the uniform-grid constant, or control its zero probability. The next number-theoretic question is this explicit physical functional, rather than an assumed product of direction void probabilities.

Audit notation clarification (22:01 UTC)

Peer message1236 independently confirms the exact derangement counting formula when both color source sets have the same cardinality f: its denominator is (t)_(2f). This agrees with the formula above, where q=|A|+|B| is the TOTAL number of queries. The earlier local note explicitly defined f=|A|+|B|; the abbreviated mail1235 did not, causing an ambiguity. We now use a,b,q throughout this row calculation. No probability correction is needed. For a physical triple, q<=3 across all row blocks combined.

6. The partial repair retains the entropy bound

The size and entropy conclusions can hold together. At the stated R, put delta_p=p/(log p)^2. The deterministic initial deficit is O(delta_p), and the threshold-selection argument supplies a chosen anchor set for which the threshold deletion removes O_c(delta_p) points. Fix such a set.

The conditional repeated-cell triple bound is O_c(sqrt(p)*log^4 p). By Markov, all but O_c(log^6(p)/sqrt(p)) of the uniform labelled permutation codes have T_same<=delta_p. Both deletion steps then remove at most K=O_c(delta_p) points. Use the fixed deletion rule already specified.

For a given repaired unlabelled output, any original support mapping to it is a superset obtained by adding at most K points of the p-square. There are at most sum_(j<=K) binom(p^2,j) such original supports, each with at most 2^g labelled codes. The logarithm of this additional deletion multiplicity is O_c(K log p)=O_c(p/log p)=o(p).

Apply the original code-count lower bound to the good (1-o(1)) fraction of codes, and divide by these fibre bounds. There are therefore at least

exp(cp log p - 2cp log log p - O_c(p))

distinct capped repaired supports of size cp-O_c(p/log^2 p), with no triple that repeats an original cell. If a common size is desired, pigeonhole over the at most p^2+1 possible sizes, at a cost O(log p) in log cardinality. For any fixed c>1.8 their size exceeds1.8p for all sufficiently large p, but triples on THREE DISTINCT cells remain entirely possible. This is not the requested construction. The entropy statement cannot be combined with an unproved void probability for those remaining triples.

3. Physical first moments

7 October 2026. Local continuation, not a no-three theorem or a new paper. The source and threshold deletion are defined in conic_cell_jitter_ensemble.md and conic_cell_same_cell_repair.md. All probabilities below precede the outcome-dependent repeated-cell repair. Conditioning on that repair would change their law.

1. Exact functional and the query correction

Fix selected anchors and threshold-regular retained cells. Let U be their allowed coordinate products. Each cell i in blocks r,s has constant point intensity w_i=2/(t_r u_s). For a nonaxis integer line ell put

M_(ell,i) = sum_(z in U_i intersect ell) w_i.

The product-intensity triple functional is exactly

W = sum_ell e_3((M_(ell,i))_i),

where e_3 sums products over three DISTINCT cells. This follows by expanding the products and using the unique line through three distinct collinear points. Using e_3 of individual points instead would also count repeated-cell triples and is a different functional.

For a fixed color assignment to a nonaxis triple, in a row block let a,b be the numbers of red and blue queries, q=a+b<=3, and t its permutation size. The source cells are distinct, hence red and blue source sets are disjoint. If ab=0, the exact row factor is 1/(t)_q. Otherwise ab=q-1 (as q<=3), and the exact factor is

(1-a*b/(t-1))/(t)_q = (t-q)/((t-1)(t)_q).

Indeed the cross-overlap events are disjoint when a=1 or b=1. In a column block the exact factor is 1/((u)_a (u)_b). Multiplying block factors and summing the eight color choices gives the EXACT inclusion probability. There is no independence assertion between different triple events.

For regular block sizes tending to infinity, divide by the product of individual point intensities and expand the eight color choices. If q_r and q_s count the queried cells in each row and column block respectively,

P(triple)/product w
  = 1 + (1/2) sum_r C(q_r,2)/t_r
      + (1/2) sum_s C(q_s,2)/u_s + O_c(R^-2).

To check the row coefficient, for one fixed color choice it is C(q,2)-a*b=C(a,2)+C(b,2). A uniformly chosen color pair agrees with probability 1/2. The column calculation has the same coefficient. Products of two first-order terms enter only the uniform O(R^-2) remainder.

The derangement correlation relative to the TWO WITHIN-COLOR query marginals is 1+O(t^-2), as independently investigated by lattice_lift_research. That does not remove the O(t^-1) without-replacement correction relative to the INDIVIDUAL point marginals used by w. If every cell has a different row block and a different column block, the intensity-product formula is exact for every block size. In particular this holds for a direction (a,b) with both |a|>=R and |b|>=R. This identifies which physical directions can need a query correction; it does not evaluate W asymptotically.

2. A deterministic incidence upper bound

Assume p^(1/3)<=R=o(sqrt(p)). The allowed target universe has

M=|U| <= p R^2,

and every nonaxis line contains O(R^2) points of U, uniformly in the selected anchor subset. Here is the conic-specific line bound. Write the primitive line as b x-a y=h and r=max(|a|,|b|). If r>R, the full grid has at most 1+p/r=O(p/R)=O(R^2) points on it. If r<=R, an anchor whose cell meets the line has b x-a y in an interval of at most 4Rr+1 integer values around h. Each residue value gives at most two hyperbola anchors: substituting y=x^-1 produces b x^2-h' x-a=0 over F_p. The coefficients cannot all vanish for a primitive nonaxis direction with r<p. Thus there are O(Rr) possible cells. Each contributes O(1+R/r) integer points, for O(R^2) in total. Allowing all coordinate targets in these cells only increases the bound.

The classical Szemeredi-Trotter rich-line bound gives

number of k-rich lines = O(M^2/k^3 + M/k),  k>=2.

Dyadic summation up to maximum richness L therefore bounds the number of collinear triples by O(M^2 log(2L)+M L^2). Applying this to U and L=O(R^2), and bounding each regular-cell triple probability by O_c(R^-6), yields

E T_dist <= O_c(p^2 log(2R)/R^2 + p).

At R=floor(sqrt(p)/log p), this is O_c(p log^3 p). This is a coarse upper bound, not a uniform-grid asymptotic and not a sublinear deletion estimate. It does not control simultaneous avoidance. The incidence theorem is classical; the application and the elementary conic line bound are recorded only to state what can currently be justified for this physical source.

Reference: E. Szemeredi and W. T. Trotter Jr., Extremal problems in discrete geometry, Combinatorica 3 (1983), 381-392, DOI 10.1007/BF02579194. Bibliographic metadata checked directly; full original article not read in this session. The standard rich-line theorem is the sole external input to this section.

3. Exact finite evaluation, no new sample

The existing p=1009,R=4 anchor selection admits 12,924 candidate target points in 912 cells. Its row block sizes are 2 or 4 and its column block sizes are at most 4. All are threshold-regular at eta=c/24. Point intensities have common denominator 48. Each exact eight-color query probability has common denominator 995328=2^12*3^5, so the full computation uses integer sums.

The scanner conic_cell_weighted_scan.cpp enumerated 83,333,090 nonaxis target pairs and 3,280,225 target triples in three distinct cells. It obtained

W = 31772105/3456 = 9193.31741898148...,
E[T_dist | retained anchors] = 573445685/62208
                             = 9218.19838284465... .

The existing sample has 9,244 such triples. Agreement of a single observation with this expectation is not a concentration or avoidance estimate. The repaired sample has a different, outcome-dependent law; these formulas do not describe its 4,542 surviving triples.

The largest nonaxis line intensity is 9/2, on x+y=955. Therefore no probability measure supported entirely on no-three subsets can have exactly these same one-point marginals: its expected occupancy of every line would be at most2. This finite obstruction is to preserving these marginals, not to finding a no-three support somewhere in the candidate domain. Conditioning or changing the permutations may alter the marginals.

The direction-height dyadic bins and exact numerators are retained in conic_cell_weighted_p1009.json. The domain is in conic_cell_candidate_domain.txt. Before the full run, direct determinant enumeration on its first80 points found21 target triples and independently computed expectation71/768, matching the scanner exactly. An exhaustive enumeration of20 row-query cases at t=2,4 also matched the formula. These are implementation checks, not new random experiments.

Reproduction from this directory (requires a C++17 compiler; Python control uses the standard library):

python -c 'from conic_cell_weighted_control import prepare; prepare()'
g++ -O3 -std=c++17 conic_cell_weighted_scan.cpp -o /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan
timeout 90 /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan < conic_cell_candidate_domain_small.txt > conic_cell_weighted_small.json
timeout 90 /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan < conic_cell_candidate_domain.txt > conic_cell_weighted_p1009.json
python conic_cell_weighted_control.py

4. The finite template obstruction

7 October 2026. This is the primary finite proof, superseding the more restrictive initial LP-cover explanations retained below.

Take all912 selected physical R=4 cells in the existing p1009 artifact. Permit points ANYWHERE in those cells, with at most2 points per cell. There is no selected-coordinate or cell/x restriction in this statement. Any no-three subset has size at most1800, below the1817 required by the target.

For cells indexed(r,s), the group r+s=v lies inside the seven lines x+y=4v,...,4v+6, of total capacity14. The following groups are crowded:

| v | cells | forced loss from two per cell | |---:|---:|---:| |238|9|4| |250|8|2| |253|8|2| |255|8|2| |257|8|2| |266|8|2| |301|8|2|

They contain57 cells and force loss16. The cell groups r-s=-41 and r-s=41 each contain9 cells and each lie on seven x-y lines. They force loss4 each. All75 heavy cells in these nine groups are DISTINCT. Thus these losses add:

|S| <=2*912-16-8=1800.

The other837 cells contribute at most1674 points; the nine heavy groups contribute at most9*14=126. This is a900-term integral cover using only original-cell and genuine physical-line capacities.

The standard-library conic_cell_diagonal_strip_obstruction.py verifies all cell counts, the containment of every cell corner in its claimed strip, and disjointness using only retained anchors. Its JSON includes every heavy cell index. lattice_lift_research independently implemented and verified the same counts/containments/disjointness. No optimizer or new sample is needed.

This fixed-template exclusion does not extend to other anchor choices or to the asymptotic source. The new analytic candidate in conic_cell_strip_cleaning_candidate.md addresses the specific overload mechanism by sublinear precleaning; it is not a no-three construction.

5. Maximal-interval precleaning

7 October 2026. Proof with an independent peer audit. This replaces the coarse-endpoint variant, retained as conic_cell_strip_cleaning_coarse_endpoint_v1.md. It does NOT prove individual line feasibility or simultaneous triple avoidance.

Statement

Fix 0<c<2. For large odd primes let

R=floor(sqrt(p)/log p),   H=floor(p^(1/4)/(log p)^2).

There is a modified conic-cell source with exactly m=4floor(cp/4) output points, exact axis caps, and

log(number of distinct supports)
    >= cp log p - 2cp log log p - O_c(p),

whose selected cells obey this necessary capacity condition: for EVERY primitive nonaxis normal (a,b) with |a|,|b|<=H, and EVERY integer strip I of parallel lines ax+by=h, the number of selected cells wholly contained in I is at most the number of integer h-values in I. Consequently two points per cell do not overload the aggregate capacity of any such strip.

Delete the terminal short row/column cells so each remaining physical cell is a full R-square. A nonempty strip containing an entire such cell has at least (|a|+|b|)(R-1)+1>=R integer trace values. A strip of width at least p cannot be overloaded because fewer than p cells are selected. Thus only intervals of length R<=w<p need analysis.

The modification deletes o(p) anchors before ordinary unique-cell retention, row-local pairing, and fixed-size pair selection. The selected anchor set is chosen uniformly from the surviving pairs; the capacity conclusion holds with probability1-o(1). Every subsequent within-cell permutation preserves this statement about the cells, regardless of where its outputs fall.

1. Complete correlation of a conic projection

For Delta!=0 modulo p, put f(h)=chi(h^2-Delta), with chi(0)=0. Then |f|<=1. For every nonzero shift d,

|sum_(h mod p) f(h) f(h+d)| <= C sqrt(p).                (C)

The quartic (h^2-Delta)((h+d)^2-Delta) is not a square over the algebraic closure. Each factor has two distinct roots. Equal root sets would make a two-element set invariant under translation by d, impossible in odd characteristic unless d=0. A single shared root leaves two odd-multiplicity roots and also does not give a square. Thus the classical multiplicative Weil bound gives(C), uniformly in Delta,d. Equivalently use the point count of the normalized irreducible double cover y^2=quartic, of genus at most1; singular corrections are O(1).

For cyclic intervals of any fixed length 1<=w<p, define

F_w(h)=sum_(0<=u<w) f(h+u).

Expansion and(C) give the complete second moment

sum_(h mod p) |F_w(h)|^2 <= p*w + C*w^2*sqrt(p).         (M)

Diagonal terms contribute at mostp each. Every distinct pair of offsets has a nonzero shift because w<p. No incomplete-sum estimate or average over coarse cell endpoints is substituted for this complete calculation.

2. The union of all high-average long intervals is small

Fix 0<epsilon<=1/4. Let B_R be the union of ALL cyclic intervals I of length R<=|I|<p for which sum_(h in I) f(h)>epsilon*|I|. We claim

|B_R| <= C_epsilon*(p/R + sqrt(p)*log p).               (U)

Here are the covering details, including the passage from counts of starts to the measure of their union.

First fix w and a threshold 0<eta<1. Let A be the starts with F_w(h)>etaw, and A' those with F_w(h)>etaw/2. Moving the start by j changes a window sum by at most2|j|. Therefore, for every h in A, the next l=floor(etaw/4) starts belong to A'. For sufficiently large w, l>=etaw/8. In a cyclic connected component of A' of length v that contains a strong start, v>=l. The union of intervals [h,h+4w) from strong starts in that component lies in the component extended by4w, of length at mostv+4w <=C_eta*v. Summing over components (overlap only helps) proves

|union_(h in A) [h,h+4w)| <= C_eta*|A'|
   <= C_eta*(p/w+sqrt(p)),                             (F)

where the last step is Chebyshev and(M). If A' is the entire cycle the same inequality follows directly; if 4w>=p, interpret intervals cyclically.

Now consider all lengths v in one dyadic range W<=v<min(2W,p). Choose a length mesh d=max(1,floor(epsilonW/8)) and round v DOWN to a multiple w of d. For sufficiently large R, w is comparable to W, 0<=v-w<=epsilonW/8, and only O_epsilon(1) rounded lengths occur. If an interval of length v has sum>epsilonv, its initial w-subinterval has sum>epsilonv-(v-w)>epsilon*w/2. Its original interval is contained in [h,h+2W), which lies in [h,h+4w) because w>=W/2. Apply(F) with eta=epsilon/2 to each rounded length. The union of all bad intervals at this scale has size at most

C_epsilon*(p/W+sqrt(p)).

Summing W=R,2R,4R,...<p proves(U): the p/W terms form a geometric series, and there are O(log p) scales. The proof uses boundedness of f and its complete shift correlations; it is a classical second-moment/covering argument, not a new pointwise short character-sum estimate.

3. Delete anchors projecting into exceptional residue regions

For every primitive (a,b) with a,b!=0 and |a|,|b|<=H, use Delta=4ab modulo p. The number of hyperbola anchors xy=1 with ax+by=h modulo p is exactly

1+chi(h^2-4ab),

because ax^2-hx+b=0 has no zero root. In particular every residue fibre contains at most2 anchors. Let B_(a,b) be the set B_R in(U) for this Delta. Discard every anchor whose trace ax+by belongs to any B_(a,b).

There are O(H^2) normals. By(U), the total deleted anchors are at most

O_epsilon(H^2*(p/R+sqrt(p)*log p))
   = O_epsilon(p/(log p)^3)=o(p).                      (D)

Use large p so 1<=H<p and a,b are nonzero modulo p. Uniformity of(C) makes the constant independent of the growing direction set.

After this deletion, EVERY cyclic trace interval I of length R<=|I|<p contains at most(1+epsilon)|I| retained anchors for each considered normal. If I was bad, it is contained in B_(a,b), so all its anchors were deleted. If I was not bad, its ORIGINAL fibre count was at most(1+epsilon)|I|. This is the key reason that averaging over all starts legitimately controls all actual cell-strip positions here: the entire exceptional trace regions are removed, rather than merely counting exceptional sampled endpoints.

4. Fixed-size pair selection leaves a uniform margin

Delete terminal short cells (at most2R anchors), keep one anchor per remaining cell (loss at most4R^2), and form row-local pairs (loss at mostceil(p/R)). Together with(D), the total deficit is O_c(p/log^2 p), hence the number K of available pairs satisfies2K=p-o(p). Choose L0=floor(cp/4) pairs uniformly. Its pair inclusion fraction is gamma=L0/K=c/2+o(1).

Take epsilon=min(1/4,(2-c)/(2c)). For all sufficiently large p,

gamma*(1+epsilon) <= 1-delta,   delta=(2-c)/8>0.

For any trace interval I of length w>=R, let X be the number of selected anchors projecting into I. Its mean is at most(1-delta)w. Each available pair contributes0,1,or2 anchors. If Y1 counts selected pairs contributing1 and Y2 selected pairs contributing2, then X=Y1+2Y2. Each Yj separately is hypergeometric. In fact we retain uniform slack. Put beta=delta/2=(2-c)/16. If X>(1-beta)*w, either

Y1-EY1 > delta*w/4, or Y2-EY2 > delta*w/8.

Ordinary hypergeometric upper tails therefore give

P(X>(1-beta)*w) <= 2 exp(-kappa_c*w).

No independence between Y1 and Y2 is needed. There are at most O(H^2p^2) cyclic intervals over all normals, and each relevant w>=R. The union bound O(H^2p^2)*exp(-kappa_c R)=o(1) shows that every interval has X<=(1-beta)*w at once. For intervals of length at least p, the same slack holds trivially because 2L0<=cp/2<(1-beta)*p.

Fix a successful selected anchor set. If a physical strip contains k whole selected cells, it contains their k original anchors, whose modular traces belong to the same interval whenever the strip width w<p. Hence k<=(1-beta)*w. In particular k<=w. This proves the statement, including arbitrary unions of consecutive coarse cell bands and arbitrary translations of the containing strip.

The usual local permutations now supply exactly m=4L0 distinct output points with exact axis caps. For every such selected set, the original factorial/derangement counting proof gives

log N >=2m log R-O_c(p)
       =cp log p-2cp loglog p-O_c(p).

The code-to-support fibre bound is still2^(2L0). The deterministic deletions occur before choosing the anchors and do not enter as an additional loss of output size or in this factorial count.

Scope, reference, and remaining obstruction

The p1009,R4 template violates the strip condition at both diagonal normals. The candidate theorem shows how to preclude that mechanism at sublinear anchor cost in the asymptotic source. It does not make the original finite template viable. Nor does passing all these aggregate tests imply feasibility of individual line constraints, compatibility of different directions, or absence of triples on three distinct cells. No void probability is asserted.

The repeated-cell repair still applies: its threshold deficit remains O_c(p/log^2p), and E T_same=O_c(sqrt(p)*log^4p)=o(p). It preserves strip upper tests under deletion and the earlier entropy conclusion for repaired supports.

The external input is the classical complete multiplicative Weil estimate for nonsquare bounded-degree polynomials, equivalently the genus-at-most-one curve point-count estimate. For the related curve-sum framework see K.-H. Mak and A. Zaharescu, The distribution of values of short hybrid exponential sums on curves over finite fields, Math. Res. Lett.18(2011), 155-174, Section3, https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1726 . Section3 of the retained full text was read. No claim of novelty is made for the character-sum bound or covering principle; their application to this source is the candidate research advance being audited.

Audit status: lattice_lift_research proof-audited the maximal-interval argument and source application (22:45 UTC). The covering extension is now written with4w and the dyadic interval2W to make containment explicit. The strengthened fixed-size selection slack is the same tail argument with halved deviation.

6. Separate routing for each short direction

7 October 2026. Corollary of the maximal-interval precleaning, with an independent peer audit. This is a relaxation: the point assignment here need not preserve the source's row/column caps or its selected coordinate sets. Different directions can require DIFFERENT assignments. No simultaneous realization is asserted.

Use a successful selected cell set from conic_cell_strip_cleaning_candidate.md, with beta=(2-c)/16. Its selected anchors satisfy, for every considered normal (a,b) and every physical trace interval of length w>=R,

number of anchors in the interval <=(1-beta)*w.

For w<p this follows from the corresponding modular trace interval. For w>=p it follows from the total number of selected anchors, g<=cp/2. Every selected cell is a full R-square; terminal short cells were discarded.

Fix one primitive nonaxis normal with |a|,|b|<=H. Then, for all large p, one can choose two DISTINCT integer points in every selected cell such that each line ax+by=h contains at most2 chosen points. Thus the layout passes not only interval capacity tests, but the actual single-direction assignment problem when all other direction constraints are relaxed.

1. An interior trace interval has two points per cell

Reflect coordinate axes inside a cell if necessary, so A=|a| and B=|b| are positive and coprime. After shifting its minimum trace to0, its full trace range is [0,(A+B)(R-1)]. Put q0=2AB and shrink both ends by q0. For any integer h in

2AB <= h <=(A+B)(R-1)-2AB,

the feasible real x-values for Ax+By=h in the square are

max(0,(h-B(R-1))/A) <= x <= min(R-1,h/A).

If R-1>=2max(A,B), this interval has length at least2B. Check the four choices of the two endpoints: the lower/end distance is controlled by h>=2AB, the upper/end distance by (A+B)(R-1)-h>=2AB, and the two middle possibilities by R-1>=2A,2B. The integer x-values solving the congruence A*x=h modulo B form one residue class modulo B, so this interval contains at least two of them. They give two distinct integer cell points on the trace line. Reflection/translation returns the original coordinates.

Let J_i be this shrunken integer trace interval for cell i. Its length is

|J_i|=(A+B)(R-1)-4AB+1.

Uniformly for A,B<=H, it tends to infinity relative to AB because R/H tends to infinity under the stated choices of R,H.

2. Hall matching of two copies of each cell

Make two copies of every selected cell and two slots for every integer trace h. A cell copy is adjacent to both slots of every h in J_i. Hall's condition holds if any set of k cell intervals has union cardinality at least k.

Decompose such a union into disjoint connected integer interval components. If a component I has length w, each J_i belonging to it is contained in I, and the full trace interval of that cell lies in I expanded by2AB at each end, of width w+4AB. Its original anchor lies there. Thus the number k_I of these cells satisfies

k_I <=(1-beta)*(w+4AB) <=w,

provided w>=4AB*(1-beta)/beta. This holds uniformly for large p because w>=min_i |J_i| and

|J_i|/(AB) >=2(R-1)/H-4 -> infinity.

Summing over components gives Hall's condition. It also covers arbitrary subsets of the duplicated cell vertices: their count is at most twice the number of underlying cells, and there are twice as many trace slots as trace values in the neighbor union. A finite bipartite matching therefore assigns two slots to every cell and uses at most two slots at each trace.

If both slots assigned to one cell have the same trace, Section1 supplies two distinct points there. Otherwise choose one cell point at each of the two traces. Cells are disjoint, so the resulting2g points are all distinct. Every line in the chosen direction contains at most2 points by its slot capacity. The construction is an explicit finite matching problem.

Remaining compatibility problem

The assignment depends on the chosen normal and uses all integer points inside each cell. It does NOT show that one support respects every chosen direction, and it does NOT show that the assignment can be decomposed into the local red/blue row and column permutations of the original capped source. In particular, the row and column degree caps may fail in this relaxed assignment. A joint matching or switching mechanism would be a new result, not a consequence of Hall separately in each direction.

7. Centered boxes and simultaneous fractional feasibility

7 October 2026. Candidate for audit. This is NOT an integer no-three result. It changes the allowed domain from the previous selected coordinate products to entire disjoint boxes centered on retained hyperbola anchors.

Claim and exact scope

Fix 0<c<2. For every sufficiently large odd prime p, one can select g=2floor(cp/4) anchors and disjoint full integer boxes around them such that:

1. There are exp(cp logp-2cp loglogp-O_c(p)) distinct actual supports with exactly2 points per box, size2g, and row/column caps2.
2. On the union U of the ENTIRE boxes, there is an explicit nonnegative fractional point weight w with total mass2g, mass exactly2 in each box, point weights at most1, and mass at most2 on EVERY physical integer line.

The fractional weight is uniform inside each selected box. It is not claimed to be a mixture of the supports in(1), nor a mixture of no-three supports. Statement(1) concerns many integer axis-capped candidates; statement(2) concerns one feasible point of the full line-cap relaxation on their common larger domain. No simultaneous integer feasibility follows.

1. Scales and deterministic anchor deletion

Set

R=floor(sqrt(p)/logp),  L=2R+1,
rho=floor(R/logp),     H=ceil(4p/L^2)=O(log^2p).

Retain only anchors (x,x^-1 modp) whose centered boxes [x-R,x+R] times [y-R,y+R] lie in the p-square. This costs O(R) anchors, since their x and y values are each distinct.

Remove anchors until these boxes are disjoint. Two boxes can share an integer point only when the anchor difference has both coordinates at most2R in absolute value. For every nonzero such difference (u,v), the hyperbola equations give vx^2+uv*x+u=0 modulo p, with at most2 roots. Horizontal and vertical differences are impossible. Thus there are O(R^2) conflicting anchor pairs, and deleting at most one endpoint per pair removes O(R^2) anchors. Remaining boxes are genuinely disjoint as sets of integer points.

For each primitive nonaxis normal (a,b) of height at most H, apply the maximal-interval lemma in conic_cell_strip_cleaning_candidate.md at minimum interval length rho. Delete anchors whose modular trace lies in its bad region, with epsilon=min(1/4,(2-c)/(2c)). The total extra loss is

O_c(H^2*(p/rho+sqrt(p)*logp))
  =O_c(sqrt(p)*log^6p)=o(p).

Every remaining trace interval I of length rho<=|I|<p then contains at most (1+epsilon)|I| anchors in any of these directions. For the two axis normals, every interval originally contains at most |I| anchors, so no character-sum deletion is needed. All deterministic deletions together cost O_c(p/log^2p).

2. Select pairs with a uniform interval-density margin

Pair the remaining anchors consecutively in fixed x-blocks of length R, discarding at mostceil(p/R) singletons. Choose exactly floor(cp/4) pairs uniformly. The pair inclusion fraction is c/2+o(1).

The weighted hypergeometric argument from the strip note, now applied to ALL cyclic trace intervals of length at least rho, gives a successful selected anchor set with

N_a,b(I) <=(1-beta)*|I|,    beta=(2-c)/16>0,             (D)

simultaneously in all normals of height at most H, including axes. There are O(H^2 p^2) queries and each failure probability is exp(-Omega_c(rho)), so the union bound tends to zero. Intervals of width at least p are handled by g<=cp/2<(1-beta)p.

There are still enough pairs for this exact selection because all prior losses are o(p). Fix one successful selection for the rest of the proof.

3. The integer axis-capped source still has leading entropy

Use the original local coordinate permutations on the selected anchors: red and relatively deranged blue x-permutations in each length-R x-block, and independent red/blue y-permutations in each length-R y-block. Each assigned coordinate differs from its anchor coordinate by at mostR-1, so both output points remain in their anchor's CENTERED box. Those boxes are disjoint; the relative row derangement makes the two copies distinct. Every selected x and every selected y is used exactly twice.

The original factorial count and at-most2^g color-code multiplicity therefore apply verbatim. There are at least

exp(4g logR-O_c(p))
  =exp(cp logp-2cp loglogp-O_c(p))

distinct such supports, each of size2g=cp+O(1). This conclusion does not assert anything about their nonaxis triples.

4. A projection-kernel estimate for a full integer square

Let K_a,b(t) be the fraction of points in [-R,R]^2 with au+bv=t, where (a,b) is primitive nonaxis and r=max(|a|,|b|)<=H. Reflect and translate the square to [0,L-1]^2 with A=|a|,B=|b|>0. The number of points with Au+Bv=t differs by at most1 from

ell(t)/B,
ell(t)=max(0,min(L-1,t/A)-max(0,(t-B(L-1))/A)).

This counts one residue class of u modulo B in its feasible real interval. The function ell is a nonnegative unimodal trapezoid. Consequently the sampled kernel K has a nonnegative unimodal approximation kappa with

max kappa <=1/(L*r),
sum_t |K(t)-kappa(t)| <= C*r/L,
sum_t kappa(t)=(L-1)^2/L^2 <=1.                      (K)

Indeed kappa=ell/(B L^2); its support contains O(Lr) integer traces, each pointwise error is at most1/L^2, and its maximum is at most (L-1)/(max(A,B)L^2). Reflection/translation do not affect these bounds. The exact sum follows because the trapezoid is piecewise affine with integer breakpoints: summing its integer samples equals its integral, which is the area (L-1)^2 divided by L^2. These bounds are uniform over the stated growing range of normals.

5. Simultaneous short-line capacity

Put w(z)=2/L^2 on every point of U, and zero elsewhere. For a line ax+by=h, its mass is

2 sum_(selected anchors z) K_a,b(h-a*z_x-b*z_y).        (P)

The physical trace fibres of the selected anchors have multiplicity at most2, because the full modular hyperbola fibres do. Thus the total error replacing K by kappa in(P), before the factor2, is at most C*r/L by(K).

Superlevel sets of kappa are integer intervals. Their widths are at most O(LH)<p, so(D) applies to their translated physical trace intervals when the width is at least rho. For smaller widths, use the trivial at-most2 anchors per trace. Layer-cake summation gives

sum_anchors kappa(h-trace(anchor))
   <=(1-beta)*sum_t kappa(t) +2rho*max kappa
   <=1-beta + C*r/L + C*rho/(L*r).

Combining with(K) and(P), every short nonaxis line has mass at most

2(1-beta)+C*(H/L+rho/L) <2

for all sufficiently large p. Here H/L->0 and rho/L=O(1/logp)->0. For an axis line the kernel is exactly1/L on a length-L interval, so(D) gives mass at most2(1-beta) directly. The chosen anchor set satisfies(D) in all these directions at once; the SAME fractional w is used throughout.

6. All long lines are automatically below capacity

Any integer line of primitive normal height r has at most1+p/r points in the p-square. Since boxes are disjoint, the weight at any grid point is at most2/L^2. For r>H=ceil(4p/L^2), its total weight is at most

(2/L^2)*(1+p/r) <=2/L^2+1/2 <2.

This covers every remaining physical direction. Each box has L^2 points, so its total mass is exactly2 and total mass is2g. Point weights are below1. The simultaneous fractional claim is proved, conditional only on the already stated complete character correlation and maximal-interval lemma.

Consequence and limit

The corresponding full line-cap linear program has optimum EXACTLY2g: the box capacities sum to2g and the displayed fractional weight attains it. In particular, no nonnegative point-cover combination of ordinary line capacity2, box capacity2, and singleton capacity1 can bound this enlarged domain below2g: the explicit fractional weight satisfies all those inequalities and has mass2g. This excludes the entire class of linear-cover obstructions that killed the earlier fixed template, for this ASYMPTOTIC centered-box variant.

It does not exclude obstructions using extra restrictions such as the original selected-coordinate products. It also does not control integrality, triples, avoidance probabilities, or rounding while maintaining every line capacity. Uniform fractional feasibility on the full square is elementary; the present statement concerns the sparse disjoint-box domain with two units of mass forced in each box, together with a separately counted axis-capped integer source. No novelty claim for linear programming principles is made.

Exact implementation control: conic_box_kernel_control.py enumerates the 289 points of a side17 square at normal(3,5). The trapezoid total is256/289, l1 error263/1445, and every pointwise fibre error is at most1/289. This is one deterministic kernel check, not a new source sample or an asymptotic validation. The argument above supplies the general bound.

8. Joint integer rounding for a fixed finite direction set

7 October 2026. Candidate corollary for audit. This applies the classical Kahn fractional matching theorem to the centered-box source. It does not cover all physical directions, and no uniform growing-rank bound is asserted.

Statement

Fix 0<c<2 and a FIXED finite set D of distinct unoriented line directions, represented by primitive normals with sign identified, including the two axes. On the centered-box templates constructed in conic_centered_box_fractional_candidate.md, for all sufficiently large primes there is an actual set of cp-o_D(p) DISTINCT integer points, with at most2 points per box and at most2 on every line in every direction in D.

The original selected coordinate products need not be respected. The output is in the entire centered boxes. Unlike the separate Hall routing, this is ONE simultaneous integer realization for all directions in D and retains axis caps. It is still not a no-three set for the remaining slopes.

1. Classical theorem used, with source scope

We use the following fixed-uniformity statement: if an r-uniform hypergraph on n vertices has a fractional PERFECT matching such that the total weight of edges containing any two distinct vertices is o(1), then it has a matching covering all but o(n) vertices. Here r is fixed while n grows.

Peter Keevash states precisely this special case of Kahn's theorem in Section3, page5, of Hypergraph matchings and designs, arXiv:1807.05752v1. That section was read directly. Its reference[51] is J. Kahn, A linear programming perspective on the Frankl–Rödl–Pippenger theorem, Random Structures and Algorithms8(1996),149-157. Original metadata was directly checked at DOI10.1002/(SICI)1098-2418(199603)8:2<149::AID-RSA5>3.3.CO;2-S; the original full article was not recovered here. The matching theorem is imported, not claimed as a new rounding method. The reduction below verifies the perfectness, vertex-count, and codegree hypotheses explicitly.

2. Two box classes prevent duplicate points

Write L=2R+1. Split the L-by-L integer points in each box according to the parity of the local x-coordinate in [0,2R]. The two class sizes are L(R+1) and LR. Assign each point z weight

w'(z)=1/(size of its box class).

Every class has weight1 and every box weight2. Compared with the previously proved weight w(z)=2/L^2, the pointwise inflation is at most

L/(2R)=1+1/(2R).

The centered-box proof gave a fixed positive slack below2 on short lines, and long-line masses at most1/2+o(1). Hence w' is still feasible for EVERY physical line for sufficiently large p. Also w'(z)=O(R^-2).

Each point belongs to exactly one fixed box class. This will prevent two matching edges from choosing the same point without introducing one new vertex per candidate point (which would inflate the error scale).

3. Hypergraph with a fractional matching

Let d=|D| and k=d+1. Make one vertex for each box class, and two slot vertices for every physical line in each direction of D that meets the box union. For a possible point z, and each of the2^d choices of one slot on each of its D-lines, make a k-edge consisting of its box-class vertex and those chosen slots. Give this edge weight w'(z)/2^d.

Because axes belong to D, the two axis lines identify z uniquely. Thus two different points cannot create an identical edge; this is an ordinary k-uniform hypergraph. Each box-class vertex has fractional degree exactly1. Each line-slot vertex has degree half its line's w'-mass, hence at most1. There are n0=O_D(p) vertices: for fixed normal(a,b), at most (|a|+|b|)(p-1)+1 integer lines meet the p-square.

All weighted pair codegrees are O_D(1/R):

• A box-class vertex and a line slot share at mostL candidate points, each of weight O(R^-2), with an additional slot factor1/2.
• Two slots from different directions share at most one physical point, giving O(R^-2). Distinct lines of one direction, and the two slots of a single line, never occur together in an edge.
• Two box-class vertices never occur together in an edge.

Point multiplicities are already excluded by the box-class vertex: all edge variants of the same point meet there.

4. Explicit fractional-perfect completion on O_D(p) vertices

For each original vertex v with fractional degree d_v<1 put h_v=1-d_v. Only line-slot vertices can have positive deficit. Let

M=(k-1)n0+k,
T=(k-1)*sum_v h_v/M <1,

and create M dummy vertices. For every deficient v and every (k-1)-subset S of the dummy pool, add edge {v} union S with weight

h_v / C(M,k-1).

This fills v's deficit exactly and gives every dummy vertex total weight T. Add every k-subset of the dummy pool with weight

(1-T)/C(M-1,k-1).

Each dummy vertex now has total weight1. Thus the augmented hypergraph has a fractional perfect matching on n=n0+M=O_D(p) vertices. No new edge touches a box-class vertex, since its deficit was zero.

New weighted pair codegrees are small. A deficient vertex and a dummy share weight h_v*(k-1)/M=O_D(1/p). Two dummies share, from mixed edges, weight

(sum_v h_v)*(k-1)*(k-2)/(M*(M-1))=O_D(1/p),

and, from dummy-only edges, (1-T)*(k-1)/(M-1)=O_D(1/p). Other new pair types contribute zero. The maximum weighted pair codegree therefore remains O_D(1/R)=o(1). Also n0>=2g=Theta(p), so M=Theta_D(p) and the displayed bounds are genuine asymptotics.

5. Translate the matching back into points

Apply Kahn's fixed-k theorem. The resulting matching misses onlyo(n)=o_D(p) vertices. There are2g=cp+O(1) box-class vertices, and every matched one lies in a REAL edge because no filling edge touches it. Each real edge contains exactly one box class. Hence at least2g-o_D(p)=cp-o_D(p) real edges are chosen.

Take their corresponding physical points. They are distinct because all variants of any one point share its box-class vertex. At most two chosen points lie in each box, and at most two on each D-line because it has only two slots. This proves the statement. Discarding any surplus real points would preserve all caps if a specified smaller size were wanted.

What this does and does not advance

The sparse centered-box source has moved from separate direction routings to a joint integer realization for every fixed finite direction set. Restricted-direction avoidance on the unrestricted square already has classical simple constructions; this is a source-preserving application inside the disjoint boxes, not an improvement to the full no-three ratio.

For clarity, the unrestricted finite-direction claim alone is elementary: choose a slope t modulo p avoiding A+Bt=0 for every (A,B) in D. The union of the two graphs y=tx and y=t*x+1 modulo p has2p canonical grid points. Each tested modular line meets each graph once, so every corresponding physical line has at most2 points. This argument does not place two points in the prescribed sparse boxes. It prevents misidentifying the present template-rounding corollary as a new unrestricted density theorem.

To include ALL slopes, the hypergraph rank would grow with p. Kahn's quoted fixed-r theorem does not permit that substitution. Even a diagonal argument allowing an arbitrarily slowly growing finite direction set would not exclude triples in directions whose height escapes that set. The long lines that are easy for fractional weights remain a simultaneous INTEGER rounding problem. No positive global void probability, integer integrality-gap estimate, or unbounded >1.8 no-three construction is claimed.

The fixed-rank restriction is substantive. In a projective plane of order q, take its lines as edges and put weight1/(q+1) on each edge. Every vertex has weight1 and every pair codegree is1/(q+1)=o(1), but any two edges intersect, so a matching has size at most1. Its rank is q+1 and grows. Thus weighted pair codegrees tending to zero alone cannot justify the all-direction step.

9. Why independent box rounding still has many triples

7 October 2026. Elementary candidate continuation of the centered-box proof. This does not assert concentration, an integer upper bound, or a void estimate.

Use the centered-box template, L=2R+1, R=floor(sqrt(p)/logp), and its uniform weight w=2/L^2 on each box. Let m=sum w=cp+O(1). Assume the proved simultaneous line cap sum_(z on ell)w(z)<=2. Let W_dist be the sum of products of weights over physical collinear triples in THREE DISTINCT boxes. Then

W_dist >= (c^3/(2*pi^2))*p*logp - O_c(p*loglogp).       (LB)

If two distinct points are chosen uniformly in every box, independently between boxes, each target point has inclusion probability w(z). Therefore the expected number of distinct-box triples is EXACTLY W_dist. In particular it is Omega_c(p logp), despite the simultaneous fractional line caps.

1. Jensen within one actual geometric direction

Fix a primitive unoriented normal(a,b) with a>0, b!=0, and height r=max(a,|b|)<=R. The p-square meets at most2rp parallel lines of this normal. Write mu_ell=sum_(z on ell)w(z) and s_j(ell)=sum_(z on ell)w(z)^j. The line masses partition total mass m, so Jensen gives

sum_ell mu_ell^3 >= m^3/(4r^2 p^2).

The weighted sum of distinct-point triples in this direction is

sum_ell e3((w(z))_(z on ell))
  = (1/6)sum_ell(mu_ell^3-3mu_ell*s2(ell)+2s3(ell)).

With w_max=2/L^2 and mu_ell<=2,

sum_ell mu_ell*s2(ell)
   <= w_max sum_ell mu_ell^2 <=2*w_max*m.

Consequently this direction contributes at least

m^3/(24r^2 p^2)-w_max*m.                              (1)

No uniformity of the line masses is assumed; Jensen is a lower bound.

2. Sum primitive directions through height R

There are4phi(r) normals with a>0, b!=0 and height exactly r for r>=2; height1 has two. The elementary totient sum is

sum_(r<=R) phi(r)/r^2 = (6/pi^2)logR+O(1).

It follows by writing phi(r)/r=sum_(d|r) mu(d)/d and summing harmonic series; the absolutely convergent series sum mu(d)/d^2 is1/zeta(2). Summing(1) gives, over these distinct nonaxis geometric directions,

W_all >= (m^3/(pi^2 p^2))*logR
             -O_c(p) - O(w_max*m*R^2)
       = (c^3/pi^2)*p*logR-O_c(p).                   (2)

Here W_all includes triples that may repeat a box. The accumulated diagonal correction is only O_c(p) because w_max=O(R^-2).

3. Repeated-box triples are sublinear on this weight scale

For a box of side L and primitive direction height r<=L, the number of pairs of integer points in that box along this direction is O(L^3/r). Each pair line has O(p/r) possible third grid points, and there are O(r) directions of height r. Across O(p) boxes the number of such candidate triples is at most O(p^2 L^3 log(2L)). Multiply by the maximum product of three weights, O(L^-6), to bound their total weighted contribution by

O(p^2 log(2L)/L^3)=O(sqrt(p)*log^4p)=o(p).

This also covers three points in one box, possibly several times, which is harmless for an upper bound. It uses actual integer lines and point positions. Subtract this quantity from(2) and use logR=(1/2)logp-loglogp+o(1) to obtain(LB).

Interpretation

The lower bound is for a specified independent two-points-per-box law. That law need not respect the axis caps in any realization, even though its fractional line loads do. It is not the local permutation law, a Kahn matching distribution, or an optimized repair process.

Thus fractional feasibility plus independent rounding does not produce an o(p) expected triple count. The elementary alteration argument that charges one deletion to every triple cannot establish sublinear loss from this mean. The estimate does NOT prove that many points must actually be deleted: triples can share points, rare successful outputs may exist, and dependent rounding can have a different law. A global correlation or structured repair mechanism is still required for the full no-three task.

The same proof applies to any weights on these disjoint boxes with total mass cp+O(1), maximum point weight O(R^-2), and line masses at most2. Whenever an independent two-points-per-box law has these one-point marginals, its distinct-box triple expectation equals the corresponding functional. In particular the parity-class marginals used for the Kahn reduction also have this lower bound under independent choices; the theorem uses a different, correlated matching construction.

10. Self-contained exact finite certificate

The following MIT-licensed Python program includes all912 cell indices. It checks their hyperbola provenance, all nine overloaded strip groups, all cell-corner containments, and the disjointness needed to add the losses. No solver, random seed, shared workspace, or external data is needed. Two points per cell give a baseline1824; the checked strip inequalities force loss24. The code verifies a finite obstruction, not an asymptotic construction.

# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Copyright (c) 2026 cedar_conics
# Self-contained exact certificate; no random generation or optimization.
from collections import defaultdict
P, R = 1009, 4
CELLS = [[0,0],[0,126],[1,189],[1,50],[1,210],[1,216],[2,220],[2,224],[2,25],[2,91],[3,231],[3,155],[3,234],[3,185],[4,236],[4,207],[4,238],[4,119],[5,172],[5,87],[6,241],[6,111],[6,203],[6,74],[7,243],[7,43],[7,92],[7,162],[8,118],[8,198],[8,230],[8,43],[9,59],[9,51],[10,195],[10,110],[10,246],[10,88],[11,170],[11,171],[12,55],[12,69],[13,228],[13,123],[13,163],[13,119],[14,247],[14,208],[14,21],[14,209],[15,46],[15,99],[15,207],[15,248],[16,185],[16,81],[16,225],[16,188],[17,147],[17,184],[18,248],[18,155],[19,156],[19,157],[20,97],[20,109],[20,181],[20,155],[21,249],[21,92],[21,44],[21,14],[22,43],[22,243],[22,199],[22,94],[23,85],[23,54],[23,212],[23,175],[24,123],[24,239],[24,69],[24,66],[25,27],[25,2],[25,160],[25,132],[26,114],[26,98],[26,188],[26,235],[27,81],[27,185],[28,250],[28,221],[28,104],[28,68],[29,137],[29,17],[29,104],[29,101],[30,149],[30,123],[30,175],[30,121],[31,103],[31,224],[31,250],[31,216],[32,218],[32,197],[32,40],[32,161],[33,112],[33,197],[33,220],[33,216],[34,57],[34,116],[34,140],[34,49],[35,200],[35,57],[35,218],[35,220],[36,250],[36,210],[36,77],[36,214],[37,18],[37,96],[38,78],[38,191],[38,204],[38,83],[39,76],[39,131],[39,161],[39,41],[40,175],[40,228],[40,54],[40,32],[41,90],[41,39],[41,77],[41,216],[42,250],[42,50],[42,46],[42,237],[43,22],[43,8],[43,7],[43,160],[44,21],[44,238],[44,248],[44,236],[45,99],[45,186],[45,173],[45,201],[46,42],[46,15],[46,153],[46,64],[47,106],[47,82],[47,213],[47,191],[48,61],[48,74],[48,245],[48,111],[49,34],[49,52],[49,159],[49,90],[50,140],[50,62],[50,1],[50,42],[51,206],[51,173],[51,192],[51,9],[52,57],[52,217],[52,49],[52,93],[53,94],[53,229],[53,244],[53,118],[54,167],[54,23],[54,40],[54,220],[55,219],[55,113],[55,12],[55,183],[56,125],[56,180],[56,110],[56,242],[57,52],[57,35],[57,34],[57,136],[58,68],[58,127],[58,134],[58,135],[59,178],[59,107],[60,200],[60,173],[60,61],[60,204],[61,214],[61,78],[61,60],[61,48],[62,178],[62,135],[62,112],[62,50],[63,251],[63,168],[63,108],[63,114],[64,235],[64,225],[64,98],[64,46],[65,146],[65,173],[65,207],[65,99],[66,182],[66,24],[66,224],[66,81],[67,236],[67,248],[67,234],[67,148],[68,28],[68,115],[68,58],[68,124],[69,196],[69,12],[69,24],[69,186],[70,100],[70,19],[70,154],[70,231],[71,109],[71,142],[71,110],[71,196],[72,125],[72,101],[72,105],[72,79],[73,165],[73,130],[73,107],[73,193],[74,135],[74,190],[74,48],[74,6],[75,9],[75,192],[75,107],[75,169],[76,39],[76,120],[76,221],[76,123],[77,228],[77,212],[77,41],[77,36],[78,38],[78,61],[78,192],[78,201],[79,206],[79,187],[79,146],[79,72],[80,87],[80,246],[80,240],[80,170],[82,171],[82,240],[82,146],[82,47],[83,38],[83,176],[83,108],[83,189],[84,251],[84,126],[85,23],[85,198],[85,118],[85,164],[86,11],[86,106],[86,130],[86,102],[87,129],[87,179],[87,80],[87,5],[88,10],[88,166],[88,119],[88,238],[89,124],[89,118],[90,49],[90,112],[90,219],[90,41],[91,212],[91,132],[91,226],[91,2],[92,21],[92,208],[92,7],[92,89],[93,202],[93,52],[94,53],[94,22],[94,167],[94,151],[95,233],[95,156],[96,157],[96,233],[96,37],[96,234],[97,249],[97,231],[97,181],[97,20],[98,26],[98,64],[99,205],[99,15],[99,45],[99,65],[100,70],[100,232],[100,157],[100,167],[101,126],[101,72],[101,147],[101,29],[102,103],[102,121],[102,86],[102,122],[103,222],[103,102],[103,131],[103,31],[104,28],[104,184],[104,234],[104,29],[105,150],[105,72],[105,172],[105,187],[106,47],[106,169],[106,241],[106,86],[107,122],[107,73],[107,59],[107,75],[108,83],[108,63],[108,137],[108,154],[109,20],[109,71],[109,110],[109,181],[110,109],[110,71],[110,56],[110,10],[111,6],[111,48],[111,217],[111,116],[112,62],[112,202],[112,90],[112,33],[113,55],[113,240],[113,247],[113,119],[114,26],[114,154],[114,143],[114,63],[115,68],[115,194],[116,34],[116,111],[116,190],[116,178],[117,193],[117,135],[118,53],[118,85],[119,88],[119,13],[119,4],[119,113],[120,226],[120,161],[120,213],[120,76],[121,30],[121,148],[121,102],[121,165],[122,107],[122,179],[122,165],[122,102],[123,30],[123,76],[123,24],[123,13],[124,89],[124,134],[124,194],[124,68],[125,56],[125,72],[125,151],[125,168],[126,251],[126,0],[126,84],[126,101],[127,180],[127,196],[127,183],[127,58],[128,117],[128,163],[128,239],[128,228],[129,175],[129,222],[129,149],[129,87],[130,73],[130,145],[130,86],[130,150],[131,103],[131,221],[132,91],[132,25],[132,138],[132,247],[133,238],[133,163],[133,166],[133,198],[134,244],[134,163],[134,124],[134,58],[135,117],[135,58],[135,74],[135,62],[136,140],[136,218],[137,29],[137,235],[137,188],[137,108],[138,98],[138,226],[138,132],[138,5],[139,12],[139,197],[139,219],[139,162],[140,136],[140,34],[141,203],[141,246],[141,242],[141,195],[142,180],[142,142],[143,181],[143,232],[143,98],[143,114],[144,188],[144,168],[144,176],[144,193],[145,178],[145,130],[145,166],[145,11],[146,65],[146,79],[147,179],[147,101],[147,222],[147,17],[148,67],[148,223],[148,221],[148,121],[149,150],[149,30],[150,130],[150,149],[150,222],[150,105],[151,180],[151,125],[151,84],[151,94],[152,186],[152,207],[153,237],[153,46],[153,187],[153,226],[154,114],[154,108],[154,232],[154,70],[155,20],[155,3],[155,18],[155,215],[156,19],[156,95],[157,96],[157,19],[157,100],[157,84],[158,229],[158,199],[159,199],[159,49],[159,162],[159,244],[160,43],[160,231],[161,120],[161,39],[161,211],[161,32],[162,139],[162,202],[162,159],[162,7],[163,134],[163,128],[163,13],[163,133],[164,85],[164,241],[164,246],[164,172],[165,73],[165,122],[165,149],[165,121],[166,145],[166,241],[166,88],[166,133],[167,54],[167,229],[167,94],[167,100],[168,125],[168,0],[168,63],[168,144],[169,75],[169,213],[170,11],[170,80],[171,185],[171,225],[171,82],[171,11],[172,5],[172,164],[172,179],[172,105],[173,65],[173,45],[173,51],[173,60],[174,191],[174,214],[174,215],[174,210],[175,40],[175,23],[175,129],[175,30],[176,131],[176,213],[176,83],[176,144],[177,245],[177,204],[178,62],[178,116],[178,59],[178,145],[179,122],[179,87],[179,172],[179,147],[180,151],[180,127],[181,109],[181,143],[182,232],[182,152],[182,66],[182,227],[183,239],[183,55],[184,136],[184,223],[184,104],[184,17],[185,3],[185,16],[185,171],[185,27],[186,227],[186,69],[186,152],[186,45],[187,79],[187,105],[187,205],[187,153],[188,137],[188,144],[189,83],[189,1],[189,202],[189,140],[190,116],[190,74],[190,204],[190,191],[191,174],[191,38],[191,47],[191,190],[192,78],[192,51],[192,242],[192,75],[193,144],[193,73],[194,124],[194,183],[194,115],[194,218],[195,217],[195,200],[195,10],[195,141],[196,71],[196,127],[196,69],[196,239],[197,139],[197,33],[197,32],[197,211],[198,229],[198,85],[198,133],[198,8],[199,22],[199,158],[199,159],[199,203],[200,242],[200,60],[201,78],[201,45],[201,210],[201,251],[202,189],[202,112],[202,162],[202,93],[203,199],[203,217],[203,141],[203,6],[204,177],[204,190],[204,60],[204,38],[205,169],[205,146],[205,187],[205,99],[206,237],[206,209],[206,51],[206,79],[207,65],[207,152],[207,15],[207,4],[208,14],[208,230],[208,92],[208,245],[209,243],[209,230],[209,14],[209,206],[210,201],[210,1],[210,36],[210,174],[211,212],[211,161],[213,120],[213,176],[213,169],[213,47],[214,61],[214,174],[214,36],[214,233],[215,155],[215,233],[215,37],[215,174],[216,41],[216,1],[216,31],[216,33],[217,203],[217,111],[218,136],[218,194],[218,35],[218,32],[219,55],[219,139],[219,90],[219,211],[220,54],[220,33],[220,35],[220,2],[221,28],[221,148],[221,131],[221,76],[222,129],[222,103],[222,150],[222,147],[223,235],[223,115],[224,31],[224,2],[224,227],[224,66],[225,171],[225,170],[225,16],[225,64],[226,153],[226,138],[226,120],[226,91],[227,249],[227,224],[227,186],[227,182],[228,13],[228,128],[228,77],[228,40],[229,198],[229,167],[229,158],[229,53],[230,237],[230,208],[231,160],[231,3],[231,97],[231,70],[232,143],[232,154],[232,182],[232,100],[233,95],[233,96],[233,215],[233,214],[234,96],[234,3],[234,67],[234,104],[235,223],[235,137],[236,4],[236,44],[237,153],[237,206],[237,42],[237,230],[238,44],[238,4],[238,133],[238,88],[239,128],[239,24],[239,183],[239,196],[240,113],[240,5],[240,80],[240,82],[241,106],[241,166],[241,164],[241,6],[242,141],[242,56],[242,200],[242,192],[243,177],[243,7],[243,209],[243,22],[244,53],[244,134],[244,89],[244,159],[245,208],[245,9],[245,177],[245,48],[246,141],[246,10],[246,164],[246,80],[247,12],[247,113],[247,132],[247,14],[248,44],[248,15],[248,67],[248,18],[249,97],[249,21],[249,160],[249,227],[250,28],[250,31],[250,36],[250,42],[251,201],[251,63],[251,84],[251,126]]
assert len(CELLS)==912 and len({tuple(c) for c in CELLS})==912
for r,s in CELLS:
    assert 0<=r*R<P and 0<=s*R<P
    assert any(pow(x,-1,P)//R==s for x in range(max(1,r*R),min(P,(r+1)*R)))
used=set(); loss=0
for sign,expected in [(1,{238:9,250:8,253:8,255:8,257:8,266:8,301:8}),(-1,{-41:9,41:9})]:
    groups=defaultdict(list)
    for i,(r,s) in enumerate(CELLS): groups[r+sign*s].append(i)
    heavy={q:ids for q,ids in groups.items() if len(ids)>2*R-1}
    assert {q:len(ids) for q,ids in heavy.items()}==expected
    for q,ids in heavy.items():
        assert used.isdisjoint(ids); used.update(ids)
        lo=R*q if sign==1 else R*(q-1)+1
        hi=R*(q+2)-2 if sign==1 else R*(q+1)-1
        assert hi-lo+1==7
        for i in ids:
            r,s=CELLS[i]
            for x in [r*R,min(P-1,(r+1)*R-1)]:
                for y in [s*R,min(P-1,(s+1)*R-1)]:
                    assert lo<=x+sign*y<=hi
        loss+=2*len(ids)-2*(hi-lo+1)
assert len(used)==75 and loss==24
upper=2*len(CELLS)-loss
assert upper==1800 and 10*upper<18*P
print({'cells':len(CELLS),'disjoint_heavy_cells':len(used),'forced_loss':loss,'upper_bound':upper,'target_minimum':1817})

11. Source and exact-moment programs

These three programs are MIT-licensed. Save each code block under its indicated filename. The first regenerates the stated seeded implementation control; the other two evaluate the complete conditional first moment on its retained anchor domain. The weighted scanner is specialized to the stated R=4 instance and asserts its block-size assumptions. The standalone certificate in Part10 remains the simplest way to verify the finite exclusion and needs none of these runs.

python conic_cell_jitter.py --prime 1009 --cell-side 4 --density 181/100 --seed 20261007 --output conic_cell_jitter_p1009.json
python -c 'from conic_cell_weighted_control import prepare; prepare()'
g++ -O3 -std=c++17 conic_cell_weighted_scan.cpp -o /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan
timeout 90 /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan < conic_cell_candidate_domain_small.txt > conic_cell_weighted_small.json
timeout 90 /tmp/conic_cell_weighted_scan < conic_cell_candidate_domain.txt > conic_cell_weighted_p1009.json
python conic_cell_weighted_control.py

conic_cell_jitter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""MIT License. Actual-coordinate conic-cell capped source and exact triple audit.
No no-three guarantee is asserted. Standard library only.
"""
import argparse,json,math,random
from pathlib import Path
from fractions import Fraction
from collections import defaultdict,Counter

def generate(p,R,density,seed):
    assert p>2 and all(p%d for d in range(2,math.isqrt(p)+1))
    assert 1<=R<p and 0<density<2
    rng=random.Random(seed)
    anchors=[(x,pow(x,-1,p)) for x in range(1,p)]
    cells=defaultdict(list)
    for a in anchors:cells[(a[0]//R,a[1]//R)].append(a)
    same_cell_pairs=sum(math.comb(len(v),2) for v in cells.values())
    assert same_cell_pairs<=4*R*R
    retained=sorted(min(v) for v in cells.values())
    assert len(anchors)-len(retained)<=same_cell_pairs
    rows=defaultdict(list)
    for a in retained:rows[a[0]//R].append(a)
    pairs=[];discarded=[]
    for row,aa in sorted(rows.items()):
        aa.sort()
        for j in range(0,len(aa)-1,2):pairs.append((aa[j],aa[j+1]))
        if len(aa)%2:discarded.append(aa[-1])
    selected_count=(density.numerator*p)//(4*density.denominator)
    if selected_count>len(pairs):raise ValueError(f'Only {len(pairs)} anchor pairs available; need {selected_count}')
    selected=sorted(a for pair in rng.sample(pairs,selected_count) for a in pair)
    rowgroups=defaultdict(list);colgroups=defaultdict(list)
    for i,(x,y) in enumerate(selected):rowgroups[x//R].append(i);colgroups[y//R].append(i)
    xy=[[[None,None],[None,None]] for _ in selected]
    derangement_attempts=0
    for inds in rowgroups.values():
        assert len(inds)>=2
        coords=[selected[i][0] for i in inds];red=coords[:];rng.shuffle(red)
        for attempt in range(1000):
            blue=coords[:];rng.shuffle(blue);derangement_attempts+=1
            if all(a!=b for a,b in zip(red,blue)):break
        else:raise RuntimeError('Bounded derangement sampling failed')
        for i,r,b in zip(inds,red,blue):xy[i][0][0]=r;xy[i][1][0]=b
    for inds in colgroups.values():
        for color in (0,1):
            coords=[selected[i][1] for i in inds];rng.shuffle(coords)
            for i,y in zip(inds,coords):xy[i][color][1]=y
    points=[tuple(q) for pair in xy for q in pair]
    assert len(set(points))==len(points)
    assert set(Counter(x for x,y in points).values())=={2}
    assert set(Counter(y for x,y in points).values())=={2}
    for i,pair in enumerate(xy):
        assert all((x//R,y//R)==(selected[i][0]//R,selected[i][1]//R) for x,y in pair)
    log_codes=sum(2*math.lgamma(len(v)+1) for v in rowgroups.values())+sum(2*math.lgamma(len(v)+1) for v in colgroups.values())
    # Rigorous formula uses >= (t!)^2/3 per row group and at most 2^g codes per support.
    log_support_lower=log_codes-len(rowgroups)*math.log(3)-len(selected)*math.log(2)
    return {'p':p,'R':R,'density_requested':str(density),'seed':seed,'original_anchors':len(anchors),'occupied_anchor_cells':len(cells),'same_cell_anchor_pairs':same_cell_pairs,'row_singletons_discarded':len(discarded),'available_anchor_pairs':len(pairs),'selected_anchor_pairs':selected_count,'selected_anchors':selected,'points':points,'size':len(points),'density':len(points)/p,'derangement_attempts':derangement_attempts,'row_block_counts':sorted(map(len,rowgroups.values())),'column_block_counts':sorted(map(len,colgroups.values())),'log_distinct_support_lower_display':log_support_lower}

def audit(points):
    rich={};checks=0
    for i,(x,y) in enumerate(points):
        groups=defaultdict(list)
        for j in range(i+1,len(points)):
            dx,dy=points[j][0]-x,points[j][1]-y;g=math.gcd(dx,dy);dx//=g;dy//=g
            if dx<0 or dx==0 and dy<0:dx=-dx;dy=-dy
            groups[dx,dy].append(j);checks+=1
        for (dx,dy),inds in groups.items():
            if len(inds)>=2:rich.setdefault((dx,dy,dy*x-dx*y),(i,*inds))
    triples=two_cell=0
    for line,inds in rich.items():
        dx,dy,b=line;assert dx and dy
        assert all(dy*points[i][0]-dx*points[i][1]==b for i in inds)
        mult=Counter(i//2 for i in inds);assert max(mult.values())<=2
        s=len(inds);triples+=math.comb(s,3)
        two_cell+=sum(math.comb(k,2)*(s-k) for k in mult.values())
    return {'anchored_pair_checks':checks,'rich_lines':len(rich),'collinear_triples':triples,'triples_with_two_points_in_one_cell':two_cell,'triples_in_three_distinct_cells':triples-two_cell,'rich_line_size_histogram':dict(sorted(Counter(map(len,rich.values())).items())),'no_three':not rich}

def main():
    ap=argparse.ArgumentParser();ap.add_argument('--prime',type=int,default=1009);ap.add_argument('--cell-side',type=int,default=4);ap.add_argument('--density',default='181/100');ap.add_argument('--seed',type=int,default=20261007);ap.add_argument('--output',required=True);args=ap.parse_args()
    out=generate(args.prime,args.cell_side,Fraction(args.density),args.seed);out['audit']=audit(out['points']);out['scope']='Actual capped source, not a no-three construction; one finite implementation control, no probability estimate.'
    Path(args.output).write_text(json.dumps(out,indent=2)+'\n')
    print(json.dumps({k:v for k,v in out.items() if k not in ['selected_anchors','points','row_block_counts','column_block_counts']},indent=2))
if __name__=='__main__':main()

conic_cell_weighted_scan.cpp

// MIT License. Exact conditional first moments on an existing candidate domain.
// No random sampling, optimization, or simultaneous-avoidance claim.
#include <algorithm>
#include <array>
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdint>
#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <vector>
using I = std::int64_t;
struct Point { int x,y,cell,row,col,t,u,w; };
struct Ray {int dx,dy,j;};
constexpr I PD=995328; // Valid for this retained R=4 source: t in {2,4}, u<=4.
I falling(int n,int k) {I out=1;for(int i=0;i<k;i++)out*=n-i;return out;}
I probability(const std::array<Point,3>& a) {
    I total=0;
    for(int colors=0;colors<8;colors++) {
        I numerator=1,denominator=1;
        for(int axis=0;axis<2;axis++) for(int i=0;i<3;i++) {
            int id=axis?a[i].col:a[i].row;
            bool seen=false;
            for(int j=0;j<i;j++)if((axis?a[j].col:a[j].row)==id)seen=true;
            if(seen)continue;
            int red=0,blue=0;
            for(int j=i;j<3;j++)if((axis?a[j].col:a[j].row)==id) {
                if(colors&(1<<j))blue++;else red++;
            }
            int q=red+blue, n=axis?a[i].u:a[i].t;
            if(axis)denominator*=falling(n,red)*falling(n,blue);
            else {
                denominator*=falling(n,q);
                if(red&&blue){numerator*=n-q;denominator*=n-1;}
            }
        }
        assert(denominator>0 && PD%denominator==0);
        total+=numerator*(PD/denominator);
    }
    assert(total<=PD);
    return total;
}
unsigned signature(const std::array<Point,3>& a) {
    unsigned key=0;
    for(auto p:a){key=(key<<3)|p.t;key=(key<<3)|p.u;}
    for(int axis=0;axis<2;axis++)for(int i=0;i<3;i++)for(int j=i+1;j<3;j++)
        key=(key<<1)|((axis?a[i].col:a[i].row)==(axis?a[j].col:a[j].row));
    return key;
}
int main() {
    int n,wd;std::cin>>n>>wd;std::vector<Point> points(n);
    for(auto& p:points){std::cin>>p.x>>p.y>>p.cell>>p.row>>p.col>>p.t>>p.u>>p.w;assert((p.t==2||p.t==4)&&p.u>=1&&p.u<=4);}
    std::unordered_map<unsigned,I> cache;
    I weighted=0,expected=0,triples=0,maxmass=0,pairs=0;
    std::array<I,11> wb{},eb{},tb{};
    int maxdx=0,maxdy=0,maxintercept=0;
    std::vector<Ray> rays;rays.reserve(n);
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++) {
        rays.clear();
        for(int j=i+1;j<n;j++) {
            int dx=points[j].x-points[i].x,dy=points[j].y-points[i].y;
            if(!dx||!dy)continue;
            int d=std::gcd(dx,dy);dx/=d;dy/=d;
            if(dx<0){dx=-dx;dy=-dy;}
            rays.push_back({dx,dy,j});pairs++;
        }
        std::sort(rays.begin(),rays.end(),[](auto a,auto b){return a.dx<b.dx||(a.dx==b.dx&&a.dy<b.dy);});
        for(size_t lo=0;lo<rays.size();) {
            size_t hi=lo+1;while(hi<rays.size()&&rays[hi].dx==rays[lo].dx&&rays[hi].dy==rays[lo].dy)hi++;
            I mass=points[i].w;for(size_t j=lo;j<hi;j++)mass+=points[rays[j].j].w;
            if(mass>maxmass){maxmass=mass;maxdx=rays[lo].dx;maxdy=rays[lo].dy;maxintercept=maxdy*points[i].x-maxdx*points[i].y;}
            int r=std::max(rays[lo].dx,std::abs(rays[lo].dy)), bin=0;
            while((1<<(bin+1))<=r)bin++;
            assert(bin<int(wb.size()));
            for(size_t j=lo;j<hi;j++) {
                auto b=points[rays[j].j];if(b.cell==points[i].cell)continue;
                for(size_t k=j+1;k<hi;k++) {
                    auto c=points[rays[k].j];if(c.cell==b.cell||c.cell==points[i].cell)continue;
                    std::array<Point,3> a{points[i],b,c};unsigned key=signature(a);
                    auto it=cache.find(key);if(it==cache.end())it=cache.emplace(key,probability(a)).first;
                    I w=I(a[0].w)*a[1].w*a[2].w;
                    weighted+=w;expected+=it->second;triples++;wb[bin]+=w;eb[bin]+=it->second;tb[bin]++;
                }
            }
            lo=hi;
        }
        if(i%2000==0)std::cerr<<"processed "<<i<<" / "<<n<<" candidate origins\n";
    }
    std::cout<<"{\"candidate_points\":"<<n<<",\"nonaxis_pair_checks\":"<<pairs<<",\"distinct_cell_target_triples\":"<<triples<<",\"weighted_numerator\":"<<weighted<<",\"weighted_denominator\":"<<I(wd)*wd*wd<<",\"expected_numerator\":"<<expected<<",\"expected_denominator\":"<<PD<<",\"query_signatures\":"<<cache.size()<<",\"max_line_mass_numerator\":"<<maxmass<<",\"line_mass_denominator\":"<<wd<<",\"max_line\":["<<maxdx<<","<<maxdy<<","<<maxintercept<<"],\"direction_bins\":[";
    for(int b=0;b<11;b++){if(b)std::cout<<",";std::cout<<"{\"minimum_height\":"<<(1<<b)<<",\"target_triples\":"<<tb[b]<<",\"weighted_numerator\":"<<wb[b]<<",\"expected_numerator\":"<<eb[b]<<"}";}
    std::cout<<"]}\n";
}

conic_cell_weighted_control.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""MIT License. Prepare retained domain and independently validate small scan.

Run this from its own directory after compiling conic_cell_weighted_scan.cpp.
No source support is resampled. Full scan instructions are in the analysis note.
"""
import collections
import hashlib
import itertools
import json
import math
from fractions import Fraction
from pathlib import Path

def prepare():
    source = Path('conic_cell_jitter_p1009.json')
    data = json.loads(source.read_text())
    R = data['R']
    rows, cols = collections.defaultdict(list), collections.defaultdict(list)
    for x, y in data['selected_anchors']:
        rows[x // R].append(x)
        cols[y // R].append(y)
    denominator = math.lcm(*(len(rows[x // R]) * len(cols[y // R])
                            for x, y in data['selected_anchors']))
    points = []
    for cell, (x, y) in enumerate(data['selected_anchors']):
        row, col = x // R, y // R
        t, u = len(rows[row]), len(cols[col])
        for xx in rows[row]:
            for yy in cols[col]:
                points.append([xx, yy, cell, row, col, t, u, 2 * denominator // (t * u)])
    assert sum(p[-1] for p in points) == data['size'] * denominator
    for name, subset in [('conic_cell_candidate_domain.txt', points),
                         ('conic_cell_candidate_domain_small.txt', points[:80])]:
        Path(name).write_text(f'{len(subset)} {denominator}\n' +
                              '\n'.join(' '.join(map(str, a)) for a in subset) + '\n')
    return points, denominator, hashlib.sha256(source.read_bytes()).hexdigest()

def validate(points):
    cases = 0
    for t in [2, 4]:
        perms = list(itertools.permutations(range(t)))
        derangements = [d for d in perms if all(i != v for i, v in enumerate(d))]
        for q in range(1, min(t, 3) + 1):
            for colors in itertools.product(range(2), repeat=q):
                count = sum(all(pi[tau[i]] == i if colors[i] else pi[i] == i
                                for i in range(q)) for pi in perms for tau in derangements)
                formula = Fraction(1, math.prod(range(t - q + 1, t + 1)))
                if 0 < sum(colors) < q:
                    formula *= Fraction(t - q, t - 1)
                assert Fraction(count, len(perms) * len(derangements)) == formula
                cases += 1
    weighted, triples, probability = 0, 0, Fraction()
    for a in itertools.combinations(points[:80], 3):
        if len({p[2] for p in a}) < 3:
            continue
        if len({p[0] for p in a}) < 3 or len({p[1] for p in a}) < 3:
            continue
        if ((a[1][0] - a[0][0]) * (a[2][1] - a[0][1]) !=
                (a[1][1] - a[0][1]) * (a[2][0] - a[0][0])):
            continue
        triples += 1
        weighted += math.prod(p[-1] for p in a)
        for colors in itertools.product(range(2), repeat=3):
            prob = Fraction(1)
            for axis in [0, 1]:
                for block in {p[3 + axis] for p in a}:
                    ids = [i for i, p in enumerate(a) if p[3 + axis] == block]
                    n, q = a[ids[0]][5 + axis], len(ids)
                    red = sum(colors[i] == 0 for i in ids)
                    blue = q - red
                    if axis:
                        prob /= math.prod(range(n - red + 1, n + 1)) * math.prod(range(n - blue + 1, n + 1))
                    else:
                        prob /= math.prod(range(n - q + 1, n + 1))
                        if red and blue:
                            prob *= Fraction(n - q, n - 1)
            probability += prob
    scan = json.loads(Path('conic_cell_weighted_small.json').read_text())
    assert triples == scan['distinct_cell_target_triples']
    assert weighted == scan['weighted_numerator']
    assert probability == Fraction(scan['expected_numerator'], scan['expected_denominator'])
    return dict(exhaustive_row_query_cases=cases, small_domain_points=80,
                determinant_triples=triples, weighted_numerator=weighted,
                exact_expectation=str(probability), passed=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    points, denominator, source_hash = prepare()
    result = validate(points)
    full = json.loads(Path('conic_cell_weighted_p1009.json').read_text())
    dx, dy, intercept = full['max_line']
    witness = [p for p in points if dy * p[0] - dx * p[1] == intercept]
    assert sum(p[-1] for p in witness) == full['max_line_mass_numerator']
    result.update(source_sha256=source_hash, maximum_line_target_points=len(witness),
                  maximum_line_mass=str(Fraction(sum(p[-1] for p in witness), denominator)))
    Path('conic_cell_weighted_scan_validation.json').write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2) + '\n')
    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))

12. One exact projection-kernel control

This standard-library program checks one integer-square projection against its continuous trapezoid approximation using exact fractions. It is a lemma implementation check, not a source sample or an asymptotic verification.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""MIT License. One exact lattice-slice control for the trapezoid estimate.

This enumerates one square kernel; it generates no research source sample.
"""
from collections import Counter
from fractions import Fraction
import json
from pathlib import Path

A,B,L=3,5,17
counts=Counter(A*x+B*y for x in range(L) for y in range(L))
records=[]
for t in range((A+B)*(L-1)+1):
    lower=max(Fraction(0),Fraction(t-B*(L-1),A))
    upper=min(Fraction(L-1),Fraction(t,A))
    ell=max(Fraction(0),upper-lower)
    k=Fraction(counts[t],L*L)
    approx=ell/(B*L*L)
    assert abs(k-approx)<=Fraction(1,L*L)
    assert approx<=Fraction(1,L*max(A,B))
    records.append((t,k,approx))
profile=[a for _,_,a in records]
peak=max(range(len(profile)),key=profile.__getitem__)
assert all(profile[i]<=profile[i+1] for i in range(peak))
assert all(profile[i]>=profile[i+1] for i in range(peak,len(profile)-1))
assert sum(k for _,k,_ in records)==1
error=sum(abs(k-a) for _,k,a in records)
assert error<=Fraction(len(records),L*L)
out={'normal':[A,B],'side':L,'enumerated_points':L*L,
     'exact_kernel_total':'1','trapezoid_total':str(sum(profile)),
     'l1_error':str(error),'pointwise_error_bound':f'1/{L*L}',
     'trapezoid_peak':str(max(profile)),'trace_values':len(records),
     'passed':True,'scope':'One deterministic exact check of the integer-slice/trapezoid comparison, not an asymptotic or avoidance experiment.'}
Path(__file__).with_suffix('.json').write_text(json.dumps(out,indent=2)+'\n')
print(json.dumps(out,indent=2))