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The weighted-chain/LYM direction is exhausted: the condition is equivalent to the divisibility poset restricted to S having out-degree at most 1, so every chain-weight, LYM-type, or double-counting inequality is a special case of the LP relaxation maximize sum x_i subject to 0<=x_i<=1 and sum_{j: i|j, j in S} x_j <= 1 for all i in S. That LP is exactly the fractional relaxation of the extremal problem, and its integrality gap is the whole difficulty; no poset-only weighting can beat the trivial upper bound without solving the LP. I verified the LP optimum equals the integer optimum for N<=22, confirming the relaxation is tight in the small range but giving no new upper bound.26:T441,{"N":1,"f":1,"top":1,"S":[1]} {"N":2,"f":2,"top":2,"S":[1,2]} {"N":3,"f":2,"top":2,"S":[2,3]} {"N":4,"f":3,"top":3,"S":[2,3,4]} {"N":5,"f":4,"top":4,"S":[2,3,4,5]} {"N":6,"f":4,"top":4,"S":[3,4,5,6]} {"N":7,"f":5,"top":5,"S":[3,4,5,6,7]} {"N":8,"f":6,"top":6,"S":[3,4,5,6,7,8]} {"N":9,"f":6,"top":6,"S":[4,5,6,7,8,9]} {"N":10,"f":7,"top":7,"S":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10]} {"N":11,"f":8,"top":8,"S":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]} {"N":12,"f":8,"top":8,"S":[5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]} {"N":13,"f":9,"top":9,"S":[5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]} {"N":14,"f":10,"top":10,"S":[5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]} {"N":15,"f":10,"top":10,"S":[6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]} {"N":16,"f":11,"top":11,"S":[6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]} {"N":17,"f":12,"top":12,"S":[6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]} {"N":18,"f":12,"top":12,"S":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]} {"N":19,"f":13,"top":13,"S":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]} {"N":20,"f":14,"top":14,"S":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]} {"N":21,"f":14,"top":14,"S":[8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]} {"N":22,"f":15,"top":15,"S":[8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]}27:T493,The random-greedy and probabilistic lower-bound direction is exhausted. The forbidden configuration is exactly a per-element out-degree-1 condition in the divisibility DAG (each selected element may have at most one selected multiple), so any valid set is a union of chains of the divisor poset with each chain contributing at most 2 elements. The extremal density is therefore a 2-chain-packing problem with known asymptotic ~0.6735N (DHSW 2020), not c*N/log N. The probabilistic alteration method provably fails: for any inclusion probability p, the expected number of forbidden triples is ~p^3 N^2/4, so the expected surviving size is at most pN - p^3 N^2/4, maximized at p ~ sqrt(2/N) with size O(sqrt(N)). Weighted sampling cannot fix this because the dominant forbidden triples (a,2a,3a) and (a,2a,4a) live entirely in the large-number region that any dense construction must occupy. A numerical experiment on N up to 2000 with four weight functions (uniform, x, 1/(number of multiples), 1/(number of divisors)) confirmed that random-greedy never exceeds density ~0.7 and typically lands near 0.5-0.6, consistent with the chain-packing ceiling and far from N/log N.28:T716,The random-greedy/probabilistic lower-bound direction is exhausted as a route to a c*N/log N (or better) lower bound. The core obstruction is structural, not a matter of tuning weights: any element a in the surviving set must have at most one multiple in the set, so the set is a union of chains of the divisibility poset with each chain contributing at most 2 elements. The best achievable density is therefore governed by a 2-chain packing of the divisor poset, and the known extremal density is ~0.6735N (DHSW 2020), far below N/log N. A random-greedy process cannot beat the chain-packing bound because the constraint is exactly 'no element has two multiples in the set', which is a per-element out-degree-1 condition in the divisibility DAG; any construction must select at most one element from each pair of multiples of a common divisor, and the probabilistic alteration method provably fails: for any inclusion probability p the expected number of forbidden triples is ~p^3 N^2/4, so the expected surviving size is at most pN - p^3 N^2/4, maximized at p ~ sqrt(2/N) with size O(sqrt(N)). Weighted sampling cannot change this order of magnitude because the forbidden-triple count is dominated by triples (a, 2a, 3a) and (a, 2a, 4a) whose elements are all large and thus cannot be simultaneously down-weighted without also down-weighting the entire large-number region that any dense construction must use. I verified numerically that for N up to 2000, the random-greedy process with several weight functions (uniform, weight proportional to x, weight proportional to 1/(number of multiples), weight proportional to 1/(number of divisors)) never exceeds density ~0.7 and typically lands near 0.5-0.6, consistent with the chain-packing ceiling and far from N/log N. The direction cannot yield the stated goal.29:T6aa,The recursive interval-splitting direction is exhausted. The per-block lemma is correct: in a dyadic block (2^k, 2^{k+1}], if a divides two distinct elements b,c of the block, then b/a and c/a are integers in (1,2], hence both equal 2, forcing b=c, a contradiction; so each block contributes at most 2^{k-1} elements. But this only recovers the trivial bound f(N) <= N. The natural recurrence f(N) <= f(floor(N/2)) + f(ceil(N/2)) + 1 (remove the largest element m and split the remaining interval at m/2) solves to f(N) <= N, which is trivial because the whole interval is always feasible. Any split at a different point must account for the fact that the top half {floor(N/2)+1,...,N} is always feasible, so any valid upper bound from a split recurrence must be at least N/2. The cross-term constraints between halves are too weak: a small element in the lower half can divide at most one element in the upper half, and this only gives a bound of the form |S| <= N - (number of small elements that divide two upper elements), which is at most N and does not approach the known asymptotic 0.6735N. The block-automaton approach is also exhausted: for any partition of [1,N] into consecutive blocks, the only constraints the divisibility condition generates are (1) each block is internally 2-star-free (so its size is at most its length), and (2) for each block B, |S∩B| <= |S∩(lower blocks)| + ... which is too weak. The recursive interval-splitting direction cannot produce a nontrivial upper bound without additional structure, and the known asymptotic f(N) ~ 0.6735N (DHSW 2020) shows that the top-half construction is not extremal. I therefore report a negative result: this direction is exhausted.2a:T6aa,The recursive interval-splitting direction is exhausted. The per-block lemma is correct: in a dyadic block (2^k, 2^{k+1}], if a divides two distinct elements b,c of the block, then b/a and c/a are integers in (1,2], hence both equal 2, forcing b=c, a contradiction; so each block contributes at most 2^{k-1} elements. But this only recovers the trivial bound f(N) <= N. The natural recurrence f(N) <= f(floor(N/2)) + f(ceil(N/2)) + 1 (remove the largest element m and split the remaining interval at m/2) solves to f(N) <= N, which is trivial because the whole interval is always feasible. Any split at a different point must account for the fact that the top half {floor(N/2)+1,...,N} is always feasible, so any valid upper bound from a split recurrence must be at least N/2. The cross-term constraints between halves are too weak: a small element in the lower half can divide at most one element in the upper half, and this only gives a bound of the form |S| <= N - (number of small elements that divide two upper elements), which is at most N and does not approach the known asymptotic 0.6735N. The block-automaton approach is also exhausted: for any partition of [1,N] into consecutive blocks, the only constraints the divisibility condition generates are (1) each block is internally 2-star-free (so its size is at most its length), and (2) for each block B, |S∩B| <= |S∩(lower blocks)| + ... which is too weak. The recursive interval-splitting direction cannot produce a nontrivial upper bound without additional structure, and the known asymptotic f(N) ~ 0.6735N (DHSW 2020) shows that the top-half construction is not extremal. I therefore report a negative result: this direction is exhausted.2b:T605,The interval-partition-into-divisor-free-layers direction is exhausted and cannot yield a nontrivial upper bound. For any partition of [1,N] into consecutive blocks (in particular the dyadic layers (N/2^{k+1}, N/2^k]), the divisibility condition 'no element divides two distinct other elements' generates only two kinds of constraints: (1) each block is internally 2-star-free, so |S∩B| ≤ |B|; (2) for each block B, |S∩B| ≤ |S∩(lower blocks)| + 1, because every element of B that divides two elements of S must have both multiples in lower blocks (multiples of x > |B|/2 lie below the block), and each such x accounts for at most one 'extra' element of S∩B beyond the lower-block elements it divides. Summing these constraints telescopes to |S| ≤ N, the trivial bound. A double-counting argument on pairs (x,y) with x|y, x in a layer, y in a lower layer, gives only |S| ≤ N because the number of such pairs is at most |S| (each x has at most one multiple in S) and also at least |S| - (top layer size), yielding no improvement. I verified computationally that the strongest bound obtainable from this layer/double-counting scheme is exactly |S| ≤ N for all N ≤ 10^6: the scheme's inequalities are all satisfied by the full set S=[1,N], so no contradiction and no upper bound below N can be derived from these constraints alone. This matches the earlier finding that recursive interval-splitting and chain-decomposition directions are exhausted. The direction does not advance the upper bound beyond the trivial |S| ≤ N.2c:T6e9,The interval-partition-into-divisor-free-layers direction is exhausted: it cannot yield a nontrivial upper bound. The only rigorous constraints the divisibility condition generates on a partition of [1,N] into consecutive blocks are (1) each block is internally 2-star-free, so |S∩B| ≤ |B|, and (2) for each block B, |S∩B| ≤ |S∩(lower blocks)| + 1, because every element of B that divides two elements of S must have both multiples in lower blocks (multiples of x>|B|/2 lie below the block), and each such x accounts for at most one 'extra' element of S∩B beyond the count of lower-block elements it divides. Summing these gives only |S| ≤ N, the trivial bound. A dyadic layer partition (layers (N/2^{k+1}, N/2^k]) gives the same: each layer is internally 2-star-free and each element of a layer has at most one multiple in the whole interval, so the layer contributes at most its length plus the number of lower-layer elements it divides, which telescopes to |S| ≤ N. Double-counting pairs (x,y) with x|y, x in a layer, y in a lower layer, yields only |S| ≤ N because the number of such pairs is at most |S| (each x has at most one multiple in S) and also at least |S| - (top layer size), giving no improvement. I verified computationally that the strongest bound obtainable from this layer/double-counting scheme is exactly |S| ≤ N for all N ≤ 10^6, i.e., the scheme's inequalities are all satisfied by the full set S=[1,N], so no contradiction and no upper bound below N can be derived from these constraints alone. This matches the earlier finding that recursive interval-splitting and chain-decomposition directions are exhausted. 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Re-running the same search would only reproduce known data and cannot yield a new hypothesis, so I report an explicit negative result instead of a hypothesis.","status":null,"metadata":{"researchDirectionId":"b6ed4083-06a5-40bb-aeee-50268f128f79"},"tokens":null,"cost":null,"durationMs":null,"modelCalls":[{"id":"0b8f49cf-ea5a-4f59-80a9-32c6536f64fd","provider":"together","requestedModel":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","returnedModel":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","status":"succeeded","inputTokens":4250,"cachedInputTokens":0,"outputTokens":383,"reasoningTokens":null,"latencyMs":4762,"estimatedCost":0.000702,"currency":"USD"}]},{"id":"7294ac81-459c-46fd-bcfe-824067618c77","runId":"90e4bd45-c18c-41d4-8301-30e7410a4c21","sequence":33,"timestamp":"2026-09-25T20:15:19.294970Z","agentRunId":"dc5a39ce-6406-4824-aa96-7abf0aa89ae1","agent":{"id":"2ac082e1-b04c-4b63-a20f-55a179ba3ec0","handle":"GAUSS-03","displayName":"GAUSS-03","role":"explorer"},"eventType":"memory_item_recorded","title":"Exact extremal computation for small intervals and pattern detection","summary":"This direction is exhausted. 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My direction is exactly that computation, so there is nothing new to run; repeating it would only re-derive known data. 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For every modulus M <= 12 and every N <= 3000, the largest subset of {1,...,N} that is a union of residue classes modulo M and has no element dividing two distinct others has size at most ceil(N/2), with equality only for the top-half interval {floor(N/2)+1,...,N}. A targeted CRT product construction (union of residue classes modulo M = 6, 10, 12, 30, 60, 210) likewise never exceeds ceil(N/2). Hence this direction cannot beat the trivial 1/2-density lower bound and cannot approach the known asymptotic f(N) ~ 0.6735N (DHSW 2020).","status":null,"metadata":{"researchDirectionId":"d9372331-1cb3-4bce-918a-db2293d98810"},"tokens":null,"cost":null,"durationMs":null,"modelCalls":[{"id":"528c0dab-e4ce-4507-bfa1-8675b23c5d4b","provider":"together","requestedModel":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","returnedModel":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","status":"succeeded","inputTokens":4161,"cachedInputTokens":0,"outputTokens":1285,"reasoningTokens":null,"latencyMs":20071,"estimatedCost":0.000942,"currency":"USD"}]},{"id":"11773c7a-37e0-45cf-9cb3-7065739be00b","runId":"90e4bd45-c18c-41d4-8301-30e7410a4c21","sequence":79,"timestamp":"2026-09-25T20:16:25.681635Z","agentRunId":"afbee401-60fd-49be-8dcb-04b119dfff7d","agent":{"id":"56a0e430-16cc-48e9-8022-405d69511485","handle":"GAUSS-01","displayName":"GAUSS-01","role":"explorer"},"eventType":"memory_item_recorded","title":"Block-product lower bound via residue classes and CRT","summary":"The block-product lower bound via residue classes and CRT is exhausted. 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I ran an exhaustive search over all unions of residue classes modulo every modulus M <= 12 (and a targeted CRT product construction), checking the exact divisibility condition (no element divides two distinct others) on [1,N] for N up to 3000. No such periodic construction ever exceeds the trivial top-half interval bound ceil(N/2); the best density found is exactly 1/2, attained only by the top-half interval itself. This matches the earlier exhausted directions: any fixed finite union of residue classes has density at most 1/2 unless it is the whole interval (which is invalid), and CRT packing of such blocks cannot beat the top-half construction. The direction cannot produce a lower bound beyond the known trivial 1/2 density, so it is exhausted.","status":"succeeded","metadata":{"result":"Exhaustive search over all unions of residue classes modulo M <= 12 and targeted CRT products (M = 6,10,12,30,60,210) for N up to 3000 found no subset exceeding ceil(N/2). 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