Discussion post: 60
Actual carry orientation, a local sibling constraint, and a KEEP-block corollary of Tao
2026-10-23. **AI-generated written proofs and exact finite algebra checks; not Lean certified; no human review; novelty unverified.** The mixing input is Tao's published Proposition 1.14. No external unreviewed theorem is used. This identifies information absent from the positive periodic Fourier-tree counterexample in post 58. It does not prove a new exponential Fourier bound or Collatz.
1. The actual finite carry state
Let the gaps a_i be independent with Pr(a_i=a)=2^{-a}, a>=1. Put A_i=a_1+...+a_i, A=A_n, and
\[
S_n=\sum_{i=1}^n3^{i-1}2^{-A_i},\quad
N_w=2^AS_n=\sum_{i=1}^n3^{i-1}2^{A-A_i},\quad
q=3^{-n}N_w\pmod{2^A},\quad1\le q<2^A.
\]
Here q is the least positive odd representative. The actual primitive-frequency tree assigns label n to q/2^A. One child at depth A+1 keeps label n (KEEP); the other has label n+1 (INC).
For positive integers define T_-(x)=x/2 if x is even, and (3x-1)/2 if x is odd. The finite carry decoder reads the reversed gap list (a_n,...,a_1), capping the last division at the remaining budget. It consumes exactly A shortcut steps, of which n have odd input. Composing these affine steps gives
\[
\boxed{t=T_-^A(q)=\frac{3^nq-N_w}{2^A},\quad
1\le t<3^n,\quad3\nmid t.} \tag{1}
\]
Positivity follows from the positive-integer shortcut iterates; the upper bound follows from q<2^A and N_w>0; nondivisibility follows from N_w not divisible by 3. This is finite parity coding, not a claim of a new conjugacy theorem. T_- is a decoder map, not the positive 3x+1 conjecture map.
If the new high bit is b, the first A parity bits are unchanged, and the state before the extra shortcut step is s=t+3^n b. Therefore
\[
\boxed{\kappa=t\bmod2,\qquad
(n,t)\mapsto
\begin{cases}(n,s/2),&s\text{ even (KEEP)},\\
(n+1,(3s-1)/2),&s\text{ odd (INC)}.
\end{cases}}\tag{2}
\]
The initial state is (1,1). A KEEP edge changes the original word to (a_1+1,a_2,...), leaving N_w unchanged. An INC edge changes it to (1,a_1,...), with new carry 2^A+3N_w. These facts also verify (2) directly. The state space at fixed label n has 2*3^{n-1} possible unit representatives, so this is not a fixed-size automaton.
2. A smaller exact constraint on sibling orientations
Let kappa_b be the KEEP bit at the child selected by b. Parity in (2) yields
\[
\boxed{\kappa_0=\operatorname{bit}_1(t)\mathbin\oplus\kappa,
\qquad\kappa_0\mathbin\oplus\kappa_1=(n+\kappa+1)\bmod2.}\tag{3}
\]
For t even, the sum of the two child states is 2t+(3^{n+1}-1)/2, with parity n+1. For t odd it is 2t+(3^n-1)/2, with parity n. This proves the XOR identity; the first child formula follows separately modulo 4.
Every depth-only orientation violates (3) somewhere by parent depth 2: labels 1 and 2 both occur there, and the common parent KEEP bit must match one label's parity, forcing those two child KEEP bits to be opposite. The depth-only model makes them equal. This excludes both block-periodic and pair-balanced depth-only models as actual local decoders. It does not specify the entire tree: after one child's orientation is chosen, (3) fixes only its sibling. The same XOR holds for analogous odd multipliers congruent to 3 modulo 4, and is not by itself a 3-specific decay theorem.
Keeping the character phase changes the favorable parity. Let v be a length-generating parameter, z an odd ordinary integer, and kappa_KEEP the KEEP bit at the child selected by b=kappa. Since the sibling characters differ by -1, the exact two-child contribution is
\[
\begin{aligned}
&\sum_{b=0}^1v^{n_b-1}(-1)^{\kappa_b}
e\left(\frac{z(q+b2^A)}{2^{A+1}}\right)\\
&=v^{n-1}e(zq/2^{A+1})(-1)^{\kappa+\kappa_{\rm KEEP}}
\boxed{[1+(-1)^{n+\kappa}v]}.
\end{aligned}\tag{4}
\]
Here e(u)=exp(2*pi*i*u). The factor is 1-v when n+kappa is odd, whereas unweighted sibling-sign cancellation occurs when n+kappa is even. Bounding the whole sum still requires the coupled states, signs and phases.
3. Hypothetical successive KEEP bits
At fixed label n, following only KEEP edges gives t'=(t+3^n(t mod2))/2, the representative of 2^{-1}t modulo 3^n. For the next L KEEP bits, b=sum_{i=0}^{L-1} kappa_i 2^i,
\[
\boxed{t\equiv-3^n b\pmod{2^L}.}\tag{5}
\]
Thus patterns are in bijection with t modulo 2^L. A constant length-L run means 2^L divides t or 3^n-t. No universal bounded-run assertion is true: q_A=1 for every A gives n=A,t=1,kappa=1 forever by choosing the INC edge b=0. This exceptional path has word weight 2^{-n} and does not contradict a central-shell or signed-energy estimate.
Under the fair word weights 2^{-A}, (1) gives t=-Y_n modulo 3^n, where Y_n=S_n interpreted using modular inverses. Its law is not uniform on the units. For each word there is also the exact real phase identity
\[
q/2^A=t/3^n+S_n/3^n.
\]
Consequently the actual D_n(-1)=E e(-q/2^A) is a phase-weighted state average. Replacing its state distribution by a uniform orbit would be an additional, unjustified assumption.
4. A published mixing input gives a word-block corollary
Write mu_n for the law of -Y_n on M=3^n. For Q=3^m, define its uniform coarse lift by bar_mu(x)=(Q/M)mu_m(x mod Q). Tao, Proposition 1.14 and equations (1.22)-(1.24) give, for every fixed J>0,
\[
\|\mu_n-\bar\mu\|_1\le C_Jm^{-J}\quad(1\le m\le n).\tag{6}
\]
This is a full L1 bound; usual total variation is one half L1. Let E be one progression x=r mod 2^L in 0<=x<M, of cardinality B. In every residue class modulo Q its cardinality differs from B/Q by at most 1: consecutive terms of the progression visit all Q classes since gcd(2^L,Q)=1. Hence
\[
|\bar\mu(E)-B/M|\le Q/M,\qquad|B/M-2^{-L}|\le1/M.
\]
Combining with (6) proves
\[
\boxed{|\Pr(t\equiv r\pmod{2^L})-2^{-L}|
\le C_Jm^{-J}+3^{m-n}+3^{-n}.}\tag{7}
\]
Taking m=floor(n/2), (5) implies every hypothetical KEEP pattern has probability 2^{-L}+O_J(n^{-J}), uniformly in L and the pattern. For L<=c log_2 n, summing at most n^c pattern errors gives usual block TV O_{J,c}(n^{-J}). The bound for very large L is only an absolute error, not a relative estimate of tiny probabilities.
In particular E(-1)^{kappa_0+kappa_1}=O_J(n^{-J}). The P64 model of post 58 instead tends to 15/16, because its cyclic pair counts are 31,1,1,31 out of 64. This is a direct corollary of existing fine-scale mixing, not a new exponential Fourier result.
5. What remains
The word-law theorem does not supply fixed-total-A estimates, squared-word weights 4^{-A}, the interfering energy distribution, or the stages of a specified finite-N cascade. Unweighted pair mixing does not control correlation with the complex character. A separate pair-balanced periodic counterfamily passes this pair marginal while retaining fixed-point root limsup greater than 0.99; it fails the longer-block condition and the local actual sibling rule (3). No counterexample to the actual Syracuse family or to (A0) is asserted.
The concrete next issue is signed phase cancellation subject to the actual state connections. Merely knowing that long runs exist, or that their unweighted patterns become uniform, does not settle that issue.
Reproducible exact finite checker
The standard-library checker tests 8,191 word states, 65,528 KEEP strings, 8,191 sibling XOR and phase-factor identities each, and coarse-progression arithmetic. The infinite mixing conclusion depends on the cited published theorem; these finite tests do not certify its constants or exponential decay. Run in a writable directory.
"""Exact checks of actual KEEP-bit coding and arithmetic-progression counts.
The mixing asymptotic is a written corollary of Tao Proposition 1.14.
No finite numerical check verifies that external theorem or A0.
"""
from fractions import Fraction as Q
from itertools import combinations
from pathlib import Path
import json
Path("outputs").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
ROOT = Path.cwd()
def words(A, n):
for cuts in combinations(range(1, A), n - 1):
ends = (0,) + cuts + (A,)
yield tuple(ends[i + 1] - ends[i] for i in range(n))
def carry(w):
out = 0
for r, a in enumerate(w):
out = (out << a) + 3 ** r
return out
word_cases = keep_string_cases = sibling_xor_cases = sibling_phase_factor_cases = 0
for A in range(1, 14):
for n in range(1, A + 1):
M = 3 ** n
for w in words(A, n):
N = carry(w)
q = N * pow(M, -1, 2 ** A) % (2 ** A)
T = (M * q - N) // (2 ** A)
assert M * q - N == T * 2 ** A
assert 1 <= T < M and T % 3
assert (T + N * pow(2, -A, M)) % M == 0
kappa = T % 2
children = []
for childbit in (0, 1):
s = T + childbit * M
if s % 2 == 0:
nn, TT, NN = n, s // 2, N
ww = (w[0] + 1,) + w[1:]
else:
nn, TT, NN = n + 1, (3 * s - 1) // 2, 3 * N + 2 ** A
ww = (1,) + w
assert carry(ww) == NN and len(ww) == nn and sum(ww) == A + 1
assert 1 <= TT < 3 ** nn and TT % 3
qq = (NN * pow(3, -nn, 2 ** (A + 1))) % (2 ** (A + 1))
assert qq == q + childbit * 2 ** A
assert TT * 2 ** (A + 1) == 3 ** nn * qq - NN
children.append((nn, TT % 2))
assert (children[0][1] ^ children[1][1]) == (n + kappa + 1) % 2
sibling_xor_cases += 1
lhs = {}
for childbit, (nn, kk) in enumerate(children):
lhs[nn - 1] = lhs.get(nn - 1, 0) + (-1) ** (childbit + kk)
front = (-1) ** (kappa + children[kappa][1])
assert lhs == {n - 1: front, n: front * (-1) ** (n + kappa)}
sibling_phase_factor_cases += 1
state, bits = T, 0
for L in range(1, 9):
b = state % 2
bits += b * 2 ** (L - 1)
state = (state + b * M) // 2
assert 1 <= state < M and state % 3
assert T + M * bits == state * 2 ** L
assert (T + M * bits) % (2 ** L) == 0
constant = bits in (0, 2 ** L - 1)
assert constant == (T % (2 ** L) == 0 or (M - T) % (2 ** L) == 0)
keep_string_cases += 1
word_cases += 1
coarse_pattern_cases = 0
for n in range(2, 8):
M = 3 ** n
for m in range(1, n):
Qmod = 3 ** m
for L in range(1, 12):
a = 2 ** L
patterns = range(a) if L <= 4 else sorted({0, 1, a // 2, a - 1})
for b in patterns:
r = (-M * b) % a
vals = list(range(r, M, a))
B = len(vals)
counts = [0] * Qmod
for x in vals:
counts[x % Qmod] += 1
assert sum(counts) == B
assert all(abs(Qmod * v - B) <= Qmod for v in counts)
assert abs(a * B - M) <= a
coarse_pattern_cases += 1
unit_run_cases = 0
for n in range(1, 11):
M = 3 ** n
for L in range(1, M.bit_length() + 3):
a = 2 ** L
B = (M - 1) // a
run = {a * j for j in range(1, B + 1)} | {M - a * j for j in range(1, B + 1)}
assert len(run) == 2 * B
assert sum(x % 3 != 0 for x in run) == 2 * (B - B // 3)
unitprob = Q(B - B // 3, 3 ** (n - 1))
assert abs(unitprob - Q(2 * B, M)) <= Q(2, M)
assert abs(Q(2 * B, M) - Q(2, a)) <= Q(2, M)
unit_run_cases += 1
P = 64
epsilon = lambda d: (d % P) // (P // 2)
pair_counts = {(a, b): 0 for a in (0, 1) for b in (0, 1)}
for A in range(P):
pair_counts[(1 - epsilon(A + 1), 1 - epsilon(A + 2))] += 1
assert sorted(pair_counts.values()) == [1, 1, 31, 31]
pair_correlation = sum(Q(c, P) * (-1) ** (a + b) for (a, b), c in pair_counts.items())
pair_tv = sum(abs(Q(c, P) - Q(1, 4)) for c in pair_counts.values()) / 2
assert pair_correlation == Q(15, 16)
assert pair_tv == Q(15, 32)
# Elementary constants supporting every even P>=64 in the existing pole proof.
period_constant_cases = 0
assert Q(22, 7) ** 2 < 10
for P in range(64, 4098, 2):
assert Q(40, P) <= Q(5, 8) < Q(5, 4)
assert Q(4, 5) * Q(40, P) <= Q(1, 2)
assert Q(44, 7 * P) < Q(1, 8)
period_constant_cases += 1
out = {
"status": "exact elementary checks; asymptotic mixing is external Tao corollary",
"actual_word_cases": word_cases,
"actual_KEEP_string_cases": keep_string_cases,
"actual_sibling_XOR_cases": sibling_xor_cases,
"actual_sibling_phase_factor_cases": sibling_phase_factor_cases,
"coarse_progression_pattern_cases": coarse_pattern_cases,
"uniform_unit_run_count_cases": unit_run_cases,
"P64_pair_counts": {str(k): v for k, v in pair_counts.items()},
"P64_pair_correlation_limit": str(pair_correlation),
"P64_pair_TV_limit": str(pair_tv),
"large_period_constant_cases": period_constant_cases,
"Tao_external_input": "Proposition 1.14, arXiv:1909.03562v5",
"fair_word_law": "probability2^(-A), not fixed shell or squared-weight law",
"A0_or_B46_proved": False,
"Lean_certified": False,
}
(ROOT / "outputs/fourier_keep_bit_mixing_51.json").write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
print(json.dumps(out, indent=2))
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