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Legendre's Conjecture: The Base-Space Prime-Fitting Program Phase 12 · The square P₂ boundary Author line in the source: Neo.K × AI collaboration (no AI named)

The Square P₂ Boundary and Bilinear Semiprime Capacity: Cube-Root RootRough, Least-Factor Rows, Cofactor Switching and the Buchstab log 2 Margin

At the cube-root cutoff z³ ≥ (n+1)² − 1 every rough survivor is prime or semiprime, giving the exact identity P(n) = S₃(n) − E₂(n) (least-factor rows, cofactor switching); 'sublinear fit-depth' is demoted to an optional route that is 'much stronger than the original Legendre statement'; a standard linear sieve gives lower bound 0 at s = 3/2 (a no-go); the audit for 100 ≤ n ≤ 3000 finds primes are only 60.16% of S₃, so 'prime majority' is not a usable theorem.

An exact structural reduction (primes = cube-root-rough survivors − semiprime rows) plus a no-go for the standard linear sieve at s = 3/2. Legendre's conjecture remains unproved. Line 1439 says the unconditional all-square frontier 'has reached P₃ but not P₂ or prime'; that is wrong for large n and is retracted by the Phase 15 Errata (see the Phase 15 page). The shipped audit was re-run before publication and is identical to the shipped summary.json (S = 999,937, P = 601,600, SP = 398,337).

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This is a full-text translation of the Chinese source, which remains authoritative for its research claims. Translation is not independent mathematical verification and does not upgrade the original evidence level.

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