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Math-2885

The mass and mean length of critical bridges in a fixed-width corridor

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For critical honeycomb bridge weights spanning pure cuts at separation R, does there exist $C_0$ such that for every fixed corridor aspect $C\geq C_0$, the confined and unconfined total masses are comparable to $R^{-1/4}$, their first length masses are $R^(13/12+o(1))$, and both normalized mean lengths are $R^(4/3+o(1))$?

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For critical honeycomb bridge weights spanning pure cuts at separation R, does there exist $C_0$ such that for every fixed corridor aspect $C\geq C_0$, the confined and unconfined total masses are comparable to $R^{-1/4}$, their first length masses are $R^(13/12+o(1))$, and both normalized mean lengths are $R^(4/3+o(1))$?

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OpenAI claim summary for Math-2885

The disk-transfer manuscript claims the fixed-aspect corridor result appearing in the question: a sufficiently large fixed aspect preserves the $R^{-1/4}$ mass law, both first length masses have exponent $13/12$, and both normalized mean lengths have exponent $4/3$. The other manuscripts supply strip, logarithmic-window, renewal or marked-polygon estimates in their own bridge laws. Their individual restrictions do not weaken the complete fixed-corridor assertion of the disk-transfer theorem. The full classification rests on that theorem.

The mass and mean length of critical bridges in a fixed-width corridor

OpenAI's claim

The linked manuscripts present the following claims by OpenAI: The critical honeycomb strip-crossing mass is claimed comparable to $N^{-1/4}$, and the displacement-weighted return mass to $N^{3/4}$; After summing heights through order $h(\log h)^{1/64}$, a logarithmic window around $h^{4/3}$ is claimed to carry at least $h^{3/4}(\log h)^{-C}$ bridge mass; Critically weighted all-length bridges with a fixed starting port are claimed to have mean length $R^{4/3+o(1)}$ even under confinement, with mass of order $R^{-1/4}$; Polynomial-vacuum calculations are claimed to give mean bridge length $h^{4/3+o(1)}$, central chord-visit exponent $-2/3$, and chord mean exponent $4/3$; The proposed spatial exponent is $3/4$ for infinite irreducible bridges, all compatible large even fixed-length bridges, and thermal laws; unrestricted endpoint lower bounds hold on one density-one set of lengths; Uniform two-mark polygon control is claimed to imply bridge mass $h^{-1/4}$ and finite length-mass bounds, with a definite portion on lengths at least order $h^{4/3}$. Together they give a claimed affirmative answer in the matching scope.

Mathematical statement of the claimed result

Result 1.
In a honeycomb strip of $N$ triangular bands, weight self-avoiding port paths by $\rho^{|\gamma|}$, $\rho=(2+\sqrt2)^{-1/2}$. From a fixed bottom source, let $\mathcal A_N$ be total return-arch mass, $\mathcal B_N$ total top-bridge mass, $K_N(k)$ the mass of arches ending at bottom port $k$, and $m_N=\sum_{k\ge1}kK_N(k)$. The claim gives finite sums and \[ \cos(3\pi/8)\mathcal A_N+\mathcal B_N=1,\quad m_{N+1}-m_N\asymp\mathcal B_N,\quad m_N\asymp N^{3/4},\quad\mathcal B_N\asymp N^{-1/4}, \] with $\mathcal B_N$ nonincreasing. Here $m_N$ is a horizontal-displacement moment, not a bridge mean length. Length counts visited honeycomb vertices, equivalently triangle centres; terminal half-edges contribute no weight. An arch or bridge has no boundary contact beyond its two endpoints.
Result 2.
At honeycomb critical fugacity $X=(2+\sqrt2)^{-1/2}$, put $\mu(\omega)=X^{|\omega|}$, counting visited vertices. For large real $h$, define $R_h=h(\log h)^{1/64}$, $\ell_-=h^{4/3}(\log h)^{-1/8}$, $\ell_+=h^{4/3}(\log h)^{1/2}$. The claim gives \[ \sum_{1\le H\le2R_h}\sum_{\omega\in\mathcal B_H,\ \ell_-\le|\omega|\le2\ell_+}\mu(\omega) \ge c h^{3/4}(\log h)^{-C}. \] This averages over integer bridge heights. Separate finite estimates are $B_H\asymp H^{-1/4}$, arch mass $A_g\asymp g^{-5/4}$, with a lower bound retained at diameter $O(g)$. A fixed-width $TH$ bridge corridor retains mass $c_TH^{-1/4}$ and has length-weighted mass at most $C_TH^{13/12}$, even after fixing either weak endpoint-displacement sign. For strip arches/bridges, diameter tail mass is at most $CH^{-1/4}e^{-cr/H}$ for $r\ge CH$. Polygon shells satisfy $\sum_{R\le\operatorname{diam}P<2R}\mu(P)|P|^2\le CR^{2/3}(1+\log\log R)$. In convex finite triangle domains of diameter $C_0r$ and bounded side count, all-endpoint chord length-weighted mass is at most $Cr^{25/12}$. The polygon sum ranges over unrooted polygons modulo primitive lattice translations, so each translation class is counted once.
Result 3.
Between honeycomb walls separated by admissible distance $R\in(3/2)\mathbb Z_{>0}$, fix a source port and weight each self-avoiding bridge by $x^{\ell(\gamma)}$, $x=(2+\sqrt2)^{-1/2}$, counting vertices. Let $B(R)$ and $M(R)$ be bridge mass and length-weighted mass, and $B_C,M_C$ their restrictions to lateral displacement at most $CR$ throughout the path. The source claims some $C_0$ such that every fixed $C\ge C_0$ has \[ B_C(R)\asymp B(R)\asymp R^{-1/4},\qquad M_C(R)=R^{13/12+o(1)},\quad M(R)=R^{13/12+o(1)}. \] Both normalized mean vertex counts are therefore $R^{4/3+o(1)}$.
Result 4.
For critical honeycomb self-avoiding port bridges across $h$ triangular layers, let $b_h$ sum weights $x_*^{|\gamma|}$ over all top endpoints and $\ell_h$ sum $|\gamma|x_*^{|\gamma|}$, with $x_*=(2+\sqrt2)^{-1/2}$. The source asserts finite sums and \[ b_h=h^{-1/4+o(1)},\qquad\ell_h=h^{13/12+o(1)},\qquad \mathbb E_h|\gamma|=h^{4/3+o(1)}. \] Restricting every path to horizontal distance $h\log^2h$ from its source preserves all three exponents. Length is visited-vertex count.
Result 5.
Concatenate independent critical irreducible honeycomb bridges from the fixed source, with length $L_k$, height $H_k$, and cumulative height $S_H(k)$. The source's weaker-finite-input corollary claims, for the $n$-th vertex and its height $Y_n$, almost surely \[ Y_n\ge n^{3/4-o(1)},\qquad|\gamma_n-\gamma_0|\le n^{17/18+o(1)}. \] Sum the finite bridge measure across all heights using weights $\rho^Le^{-L/n}$. The resulting law has height at least $n^{3/4-\varepsilon}$ with probability tending to one. Long half-plane arch mass is at most $n^{-3/16+o(1)}$. For $V_h=\sum_kL_k\mathbf1_{S_H(k)\le h}$ and its version counting only completed prefixes confined laterally to $Ch\log^2h$, both expected rewards are $h^{4/3+o(1)}$. Consequently the expected vertex count before first disk exit is at least $R^{4/3-o(1)}$. Here $\rho=(2+\sqrt2)^{-1/2}$, and the independent irreducible pieces have probability $p(\eta)=\rho^{L(\eta)}$. A bridge is cut into these pieces at horizontal lines which the path crosses exactly once.
Result 6.
Let $\mathcal B_h$ be honeycomb port bridges of height $h$, critical weights $w(\gamma)=(2+\sqrt2)^{-\ell(\gamma)/2}$, and total mass $B_h$. The claimed constants $c,C>0$ satisfy, for sufficiently large $h$, \[ ch^{-1/4}\le B_h\le Ch^{-1/4},\qquad \sum_{\gamma\in\mathcal B_h}\ell(\gamma)w(\gamma)\le Ch^{13/12}, \] \[ \sum_{\gamma\in\mathcal B_h:\ell(\gamma)\ge ch^{4/3}}w(\gamma)\ge ch^{-1/4}. \] For all $h\ge1,x\ge0$, $\sum_{\gamma\in\mathcal B_h:\operatorname{diam}\gamma>x}w(\gamma)\le C(1+x)^{-1/4}$. The integer $h$ counts triangular layers, with physical strip width $h\sqrt3/2$. The source port is fixed and the opposite endpoint is summed freely; $\ell(\gamma)$ counts visited centres.

Outline of the argument

Positive strip flux is represented by finite transfer rows and a polynomial vacuum. An exact arch-moment formula becomes a positive homogeneous integral; isolating its smallest coordinate determines the strip exponent. Finite-circumference loop expansions are recalibrated against positive cap amplitudes. Winding-pressure tails and divided-slice enclosing estimates transfer this normalization to strip crossings, concentrating a controlled mass in the specified length window after height averaging.

Local exploration yields a disk transfer representation and an inverse-matrix identity along a rapidity orbit. A boundary deficit and two-gap cylinder contour calculation fix the normalization; two-bridge and winding-polygon bounds then control confinement and mean length. Row matrices construct the balanced puncture polynomial and its boundary asymptotics. Surrounding-polygon localization transports the cylinder observable into finite chord visits, while a marked-tripod comparison converts those visits into the strip bridge mean.

All laws are represented on a common renewal space. Exact-length and logarithmic-window conditioning are combined with recoverable geometric cuts, and controlled changes of measure extend the bounds to thermal and unrestricted ensembles; localized endpoint estimates also yield pulling and correlation-scale exponents. Positive interpolation gives the strip exponent, and a periodic vacuum pairing fixes physical normalization. Controlled-current contour expansions and cylinder barriers produce nesting and unequal-mark bounds; these retain the marked-separation power needed for finite bridge moments.

Formal verification

For family 237, the selected Lean statements give critical-strip mass and displacement exponents, bridge summability, and existence of pulled free energy. The $4/3$ bridge-length and $3/4$ spatial laws and the other polygon/chord exponents are outside these statements. The listed Comparator files are CriticalStripMass.lean, HoneycombBridgeFiniteness.lean, HoneycombFreeEnergy.lean. The inventory does not supply a named declaration for these Comparator entries. This site has not executed the Lean code. The scope descriptions do not certify the remaining manuscript arguments.

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