GARDEN-043 — Fermat primes

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GARDEN-043 · Fermat primes

RERUN FROM EXECUTED OVERLAY RECORD · STANDING WITNESS_EXECUTED_EXACT

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WHAT THIS CERTIFICATE RECORDS, IN PLAIN TERMS. Fermat primes is overlaid on the MuncyNautics frame: the seat names WHERE the problem lives in the frame, the species (S1 — The Ceiling) names WHAT KIND of owe its residual is, the forbidder is the executed witness — the rare conjecture asserting a FINITE census rather than an infinite one, which makes it the frame's mirror case: F₅ = 4294967297 = 641 × 6700417 (Euler 1732), and every F_n from 5 to 32 tested is composite with no prime found beyond 65537. The heuristic is the frame's own: the expected number of further Fermat primes… — and the structured residual states exactly what remains open: the exclusion — no proof that any single F_n is composite in general, let alone all. And a caution the Codex should carry: the same convergent-sum heuristic that predicts finiteness here predicts INFINITUDE for Mersenne,… Standing is honest: SUPPORTED means the overlay reading is demonstrated and measured but the named residual is not yet discharged. Method: MuncyNautics Seam Recovery, Derrick E. Muncy.
schema
MN-RECOVERY-CERTIFICATE-1.1
certificate_id
MN-CERT-GARDEN-043-RERUN-20260830
supersedes
MN-CERT-GARDEN-043-INTAKE-20260830 (intake stub: all channels NOT_COMPUTED)
job_id
GARDEN-043
title
Fermat primes
author
Derrick E. Muncy
method
MuncyNautics Seam Recovery Method v1.0 · Overlay Codex executed record
source_records
The Overlay Codex (44 problems) · overlay-data.js (project record) · Overlay Codex, Annals format
species
S1 — The Ceiling
overlay_verb
issue
seat (the address the overlay assigns)
the closed census — F_n = 2^(2ⁿ)+1, with exactly five seats issued (n = 0 to 4: 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537) and the conjecture that no sixth exists
forbidder / executed witness
the rare conjecture asserting a FINITE census rather than an infinite one, which makes it the frame's mirror case: F₅ = 4294967297 = 641 × 6700417 (Euler 1732), and every F_n from 5 to 32 tested is composite with no prime found beyond 65537. The heuristic is the frame's own: the expected number of further Fermat primes is Σ 1/(2ⁿ ln 2) over n ≥ 5, a convergent sum totalling under 0.1 — so the census is expected to be closed, and expectation-of-a-convergent-sum is exactly the Brun structure from entry 41
governing_equation_as_projected (the seam)
F_n = 2^{2ⁿ} + 1 prime for some n ≥ 5? — audited by search
complete_governing_equation (the repair)
the closed census kept with its convergent expectation: Σ 1/(2ⁿ ln 2) over n ≥ 5 totals < 0.1 — census expected closed at five seats; F₅ = 641×6700417 (Euler); the heuristic is a lens, not a law (it predicts the OPPOSITE for Mersenne)
structured_residual
the exclusion — no proof that any single F_n is composite in general, let alone all. And a caution the Codex should carry: the same convergent-sum heuristic that predicts finiteness here predicts INFINITUDE for Mersenne, so the heuristic is a lens, not a law
correction_rule
Correction = reconstruction from the recovery: restored arguments, seats, phases and arms in the equation itself. No raw appended constants; any finite term must be derived from the recovered channels, never fitted.
phase_retained
True — seat, verb, and species carried; no bare-magnitude reduction performed
precision
Measured figures in the witness computed cold in double precision on the session record; classification exact (no numeric claim promoted beyond its precision)
falsifier
The residual field names the exact open step; exhibiting its failure (or a counterexample at the named seat) falsifies the overlay reading for this entry
standing
WITNESS_EXECUTED_EXACT
promotion_authority
YELLOW — the residual is a named open step; no GREEN issued on an open owe
honesty_state
SUPPORTED
generated_utc
2026-08-31T03:05:49.533Z

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