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A complete phi-squared window scan gives sparse extra witnesses
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Recorded scope: first-witness or complete no-window scan in phi^2(0) for every n from 36 through 100
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}Originating problem: Eventual existence of four-letter circular abelian-square-free words
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- A complete phi-squared window scan gives sparse extra witnesses
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- { "kind": "bounded", "statement": "first-witness or complete no-window scan in phi^2(0) for every n from 36 through 100", "bounds": { "n": { "min": 36, "max": 100 }, "prefix_length": { "min": 7225, "max": 7225 } }, "exhaustive": true }
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Scanning every factor of the 7,225-letter word phi^2(0) found circular witnesses at 24 lengths in 36 through 100 and exhausted all windows without a witness at the other 41 lengths.
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{ "kind": "bounded", "statement": "first-witness or complete no-window scan in phi^2(0) for every n from 36 through 100", "bounds": { "n": { "min": 36, "max": 100 }, "prefix_length": { "min": 7225, "max": 7225 } }, "exhaustive": true }
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The scan used the 85-uniform Keränen image printed in Peltomäki and Whiteland, Section 3: `phi(0)=0120232123203231301020103101213121021232021013010203212320231210212320232132303132120`. The images phi(1), phi(2), and phi(3) were obtained by adding 1, 2, and 3 modulo 4 to every symbol. Iterating twice on 0 produced a 7,225-letter prefix with SHA-256 `4a86ca2cd0821b5f67313b1ae8a58e88d0db1cef4bdf06bc8e025d24645c249a`.
For each n=36,...,100, the scan checked factors from left to right. It stopped at the first circular witness. When no witness appeared, it exhausted all 7,226-n windows. Witnesses occurred at `{36,39,40,41,44,46,47,48,50,54,55,58,60,63,66,67,70,79,81,87,89,90,95,100}`. Every explicit witness was replayed by the packet artifact. The other 41 lengths have no witness among factors of this finite prefix. That prefix-specific absence says nothing about all four-letter words.
The computation tested 296,943 windows in 455.913 seconds. A separate full replay tested the same 296,943 windows and matched every stable row, including witnesses and final failure certificates. A follow-up scan of the first 20,000 windows of phi^3(0) at 17 missing lengths found no new witness before its stated per-length budget. The repeated failure suggests that short factors of this morphic word have a persistent seam profile.
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Peltomäki and Whiteland, Section 3, displayed definition of Keränen's morphism phi; original window scans executed 2026-07-28
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