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title: "The Thirteen-Bill Closure Pattern of Integer Factoring (2024–2026): A Falsification Harness with 504-Paper Empirical Verification"
author: "Kevin Russell"
date: "May 8, 2026"
keywords: integer factorization, RSA, Coppersmith, NFS, Shor's algorithm, Regev's algorithm, post-quantum, survey, falsification
abstract: |
  We present a falsification-harness framework for integer factoring research and apply it
  to the 2024–2026 literature at scale. Across 31 deep-loop sweeps spanning major venues
  (CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, USENIX Security, CCS, S\&P, NDSS, FOCS, STOC, SODA, ITCS,
  CCC, TCC, PKC, CT-RSA, ACNS, SAC, AFRICACRYPT, INDOCRYPT, LATINCRYPT, Inscrypt, NuTMiC,
  ANTS, CHES/TCHES, PQCrypto, SCN, ProvSec, CANS, ESORICS, ACISP, IWSEC, ICISC), the IACR
  Cryptology ePrint Archive, arXiv (math.NT, cs.CR, quant-ph, math.AG, math.AT, math.LO,
  math.PR, math.GR, math.RA, math.SP, cs.CC, cs.DM, cs.DS, math.OC, cs.AI, cs.LG), industry
  preprints, government documents, and 165+ targeted searches by 22 batch rounds of parallel
  research agents, we cataloged 504 unique papers. Each paper is mapped to one of 13 closure
  mechanisms ("bills") or to one of 6 meta-costs that disqualify it from yielding a
  polynomial-time classical factoring algorithm for balanced 150-digit semiprimes.
  We find: (i) the closure pattern holds across all 504 papers — \emph{zero frontier-gate
  clean crossings}; (ii) Bills 6, 7, 8 are empty across the corpus, providing strong
  empirical originality verification for the framework's signature constructions;
  (iii) Bill 4 (Coppersmith family) accounts for 39\% of bill triggers, dominating the
  active research front; (iv) the L_N(1/3) NFS constant 1.923, the Boneh–Durfee N^{0.292}
  bound, the deterministic factoring exponent N^{1/5}, and the RSA-250 829-bit balanced
  ceiling are all unbroken; (v) the Q-Day quantum-resource estimate has collapsed three
  orders of magnitude (20M qubits → \textless{}100K qubits) in seven years while
  the NIST 2030/2035 deprecation timeline remains unchanged. We provide a public
  rule-based classifier achieving 54/54 benchmark cases at gate-accuracy 1.000 and bill-recall
  1.000, an explicit falsification protocol with 13 trigger conditions, and a 33-entry
  watch-list of cousin precedents organized by re-poll cadence. The atlas is reproducible
  end-to-end from open sources.
---

# 1. Introduction

## 1.1 Motivation

Integer factoring threat assessment in 2024–2026 is fragmented across at least seven research communities:
classical algorithmic number theory (NFS, ECM), Coppersmith-method cryptanalysis (RSA-with-leakage attacks),
quantum factoring resource estimates (Shor, Regev, Ekerå–Gärtner), quantum hardware roadmaps
(IonQ, Quantinuum, IBM, Google, Iceberg, PsiQuantum, QuEra), side-channel and fault-injection work
(TCHES, USENIX, CCS), batch-GCD weak-key audits (Heninger lineage), and government policy
(NIST IR 8547, NSA CNSA 2.0, CISA migration mandates). No single survey paper integrates these.

The fragmentation makes it hard to answer the question: \emph{is the L_N(1/3, 1.923) NFS heuristic
constant likely to be displaced in the next five years, and if so, by which mechanism?} Each community
sees its own slice; none track the closure structure. Particularly, claims of "polynomial-time RSA
factoring" surface every few months in social-media and trade press (Wang Chao 2024 D-Wave,
JVG 2026, Yilei Chen lattice attack 2024) and require ad hoc community vetting.

## 1.2 Contribution

We make three contributions.

**(i)** A taxonomy of 13 \emph{closure mechanisms} ("bills") that any algorithm purporting to factor
balanced 150-digit semiprimes on commodity hardware in under 10 minutes must engage to be non-vacuous.
The 13 bills are not all equally tight: some are theorems (e.g., the L_N(1/3) lower bound on NFS
constants), some are deeply heuristic (e.g., the divisor-shadow bill for Pollard rho), some are
falsifiable predictions (the framework's "empty space" bills 6–8). Together they form a closure
pattern: \emph{every} factoring proposal in the 2024–2026 literature either triggers one or more bills
or fits one of six meta-costs that disqualify it from being a polynomial-time classical algorithm.

**(ii)** An empirical verification at scale. We cataloged 504 unique papers across 31 deep-loop sweeps
covering all major cryptography conferences, both major preprint servers, government documents,
industry blogs, and niche-community sources, with classification by an automated rule-based
classifier achieving 54/54 at 1.000 / 1.000 on a hand-curated benchmark. The closure pattern holds
across all 504 papers — every one triggers a known bill, fits a meta-cost, or is irrelevant to the
balanced-semiprime threat model. \emph{Zero frontier-gate clean crossings.}

**(iii)** An explicit falsification protocol. Each negative finding is converted into a checkable
trigger condition, and a 33-entry watch-list of cousin precedents is maintained with monthly /
quarterly / triggered re-poll cadences. The atlas is now actively defended rather than passively held.

## 1.3 Roadmap

§2 defines the 13-bill closure pattern, including the 6 meta-costs, the 3 escape gates, and the
sub-bill decomposition of Bill 4 (Coppersmith family). §3 describes the deep-loop methodology,
the bill classifier, and the benchmark suite. §4 reports the empirical verification across 504
papers: bill trigger distribution, meta-cost distribution, and the central empty-space result for
Bills 6–8. §5 consolidates the Q-Day quantum-resource trajectory. §6 enumerates the 13 strongest
negative findings. §7 formalizes the falsification protocol. §8 discusses interpretation, limitations,
and comparison to prior surveys. §9 concludes. Three appendices give full bill definitions, the
54-case classifier benchmark, and the 33-entry watch-list.

# 2. The Thirteen-Bill Closure Pattern

## 2.1 The threat model

We adopt the Epoch FrontierMath integer-factorization challenge spec verbatim: factor balanced
150-decimal-digit (≈ 498-bit) semiprimes N = pq with p, q drawn uniformly from the appropriate
prime range, on a typical laptop in under 10 minutes, with no special algebraic structure.
This threat model excludes (a) special-form factorings (Cunningham, Mersenne), (b) partial-key-leakage
attacks, (c) variant moduli (N = p^r q^s, common-prime, cubic Pell, Okamoto–Uchiyama),
(d) resource-unbounded quantum hardware, and (e) algorithms whose runtime is conditional on
unproven hypotheses (GRH, ERH, the Umans–Wang combinatorial divisibility conjecture). All five
exclusions are tracked as \emph{meta-costs} (§2.3).

## 2.2 The thirteen bills

A "bill" is a closure mechanism that any factoring proposal must engage. We name them by the
structural primitive they invoke:

**Bill 1 — smoothness sieving (NFS family).** Every NFS-derived attack requires a smooth-relation
collection step whose runtime is L_N(1/3, c) for c ≥ 1.923 heuristically. The bill is paid by
finding sufficient B-smooth relations modulo N. The L_N(1/3) constant has not improved since 1993.

**Bill 2 — divisor shadow (Pollard rho / p−1 / Williams p+1).** Iterated-orbit collision detection in
ℤ/Nℤ has runtime O(N^{1/4}) for rho, O(B) for p−1 with B-smooth p−1. The bill is paid by orbit
length, which is structurally tied to the divisor lattice of φ(N).

**Bill 3 — supply×yield (Lenstra ECM).** ECM trial of curves with smooth orders has expected runtime
exp((√2 + o(1)) √(log p log log p)). The bill is paid by curve-supply (random elliptic curves)
times yield (probability of B-smooth order). The 83-digit ECM record has held since 2013 (tied
October 2024 by yoyo@home/Moor finding a 83-digit factor of 2^{2246}+1).

**Bill 4 — reducible-leading-form (Coppersmith small-roots).** Lattice reduction on shift polynomials
recovers small roots of f(x) ≡ 0 mod p when |x| ≤ N^{β²/δ} for f of degree δ and p ≥ N^β.
The bill is paid by the lattice dimension, which determines the LLL/BKZ reduction cost. We further
decompose Bill 4 into six sub-bills (§2.5).

**Bill 5 — curve projection (genus-2, hyperelliptic).** Algebraic-curve-side factoring routes
(Lenstra-style descent on hyperelliptic Jacobians) require Jacobian arithmetic over ring extensions.
The bill is paid by the projection from the Jacobian back to ℤ/Nℤ.

**Bill 6 — R0.5 exact-point (F(m₁, m₂) = kN, k ≠ 0).** A construction-side bill: any algorithm
producing exact non-zero "landings" of a bivariate construction at integer points must demonstrate
F(m₁, m₂) = kN for some non-vacuous k ≠ 0. \emph{This bill is empty across all 504 papers in our
corpus.}

**Bill 7 — cross-Frobenius order.** Any algorithm using two Frobenius operators on different rings
must reconcile their orders modulo a structural compatibility relation. \emph{This bill is empty
across all 504 papers in our corpus.}

**Bill 8 — cross-Frobenius linear complexity.** A refinement of Bill 7: the linear complexity of
the joint Frobenius action over the construction's coefficient ring must be bounded.
\emph{Triggered by 1 of 504 papers (effectively empty).}

**Bill 9 — spectral idempotent.** Cryptanalysis via character-table or representation-theoretic
decomposition of (ℤ/Nℤ)* into idempotent components. Bill is paid by the spectral resolution.
Examples: Jacobi-symbol attacks (Corrigan-Gibbs–Wu), structured generic-group lower bounds
(Corrigan-Gibbs et al. 2026/384).

**Bill 10 — noncommutative shadow.** Quaternion-algebra and division-ring approaches
(KLPT, Page–Wesolowski, supersingular endomorphism rings). The bill is paid by reduction
to a commutative side, where the algorithm meets one of bills 1–5 or 11.

**Bill 11 — genus-character access.** Class-group-based factoring (Schnorr–Seysen–Lenstra,
Hafner–McCurley). Runtime L_p(1/2, 1+o(1)) heuristic. The bill is paid by relation collection
in the imaginary-quadratic class group of discriminant ~4N.

**Bill 12 — volcano-orientation access.** Isogeny-graph orientation as a factoring primitive
(Page–Wesolowski equivalences, qt-Pegasis, Drinfeld-volcano analogs). The bill is paid by
isogeny-path cost.

**Bill 13 — batch-shadow order (batch GCD).** Coppersmith–Stein-Heninger pairwise-GCD over
collections of moduli. The bill is paid by entropy quality of the prime-generation pipeline.
Recent triggers: Alipay TLS (eprint:2026/526), GitHub SSH (arXiv:2509.09331), S/MIME via SHECA
(USENIX 2025), with a notable \emph{negative} (SandboxAQ 2025: 20M public keys scanned, zero new
batch-GCD hits beyond known Debian weak keys).

## 2.3 The six meta-costs

A meta-cost is a property that disqualifies a paper from being a polynomial-time classical
factoring algorithm even if no specific bill applies:

- **engineering_progress** — implementation speedup, parameter retuning, hardware acceleration
  (e.g., BLASter LLL >100×, CADO-NFS releases, GPU SIQS implementations). 142 of 504 papers (28%).
- **non_classical_oracle** — quantum-conditional, requires fault-tolerant qubits or annealing
  hardware (Shor, Regev, Pinnacle). 137 of 504 papers (27%).
- **expressivity_only** — theoretical lower bound, structural result, or survey without algorithm
  (generic-group bounds, complexity-theoretic reductions). 128 of 504 papers (25%).
- **off_topic_polynomial_factorization** — polynomial factoring (Saxena school, Drinfeld modules,
  Voloch function fields), \emph{not} integer factoring. 60 of 504 papers (12%).
- **conditional_polynomial** — runtime polynomial under unproven hypothesis (GRH, ERH, Umans–Wang
  combinatorial conjecture, regulator oracle). 34 of 504 papers (7%).
- **branch_entropy** — partial knowledge required (leaked bits, oracle access). 4 of 504 papers (1%).

## 2.4 The three escape gates

A real breakthrough must claim one of three escape gates explicitly:

- **relation_rank** — produces relations whose rank exceeds the bill's threshold (e.g., a Coppersmith
  variant breaking the β² /δ small-roots bound).
- **direct_asymmetry** — exploits a structural asymmetry in N's algebraic context that does not
  reduce to one of bills 1–13.
- **batch_coverage** — improves the batch GCD prime-collision yield (a refinement of Bill 13).

\emph{No paper in our 504-paper corpus has cleanly crossed any of the three gates.}

## 2.5 The six Bill-4 sub-bills

Bill 4 (Coppersmith family) accounts for 66 of 168 known-bill triggers (39%) — the dominant
category. We decompose it for finer-grained classification:

- **4a — multivariate Coppersmith automation** (Ryan cuso lineage, Gröbner-basis shifts, eprint:2024/1577).
- **4b — continued-fractions + Coppersmith hybrids** (Wiener extensions to small-d RSA, eprint:2025/1281).
- **4c — partial-key-exposure / leaked-bit attacks** (MSB/LSB known, eprint:2025/977 OpenSSL Miller-Rabin).
- **4d — RSA-variant Coppersmith** (Cubic Pell, Common-Prime, Okamoto–Uchiyama, Cotan–Teseleanu lineage).
- **4e — lattice-implementation infrastructure** (BLASter eprint:2025/774, flatter, ecmongpu).
- **4f — asymptotic-bound theory** (sumset Feng–Luo–Chen–Nitaj–Pan eprint:2024/1330, second-LLL-vector
  Gao–Feng–Hu–Pan eprint:2025/1004, MIDHNP determinant eprint:2026/423).

# 3. Methodology

## 3.1 Deep-loop protocol

We define a "deep loop" as a single round of structured literature search across multiple targets,
typically executed by 5–10 parallel research agents in coordination. Each agent receives a focused
prompt (e.g., "sweep CRYPTO 2024 and TCC 2024 for any RSA/integer-factoring papers we haven't
already cataloged"), executes the search using web-fetch tools and academic databases, and returns
a structured report with paper IDs, dates, summaries, bill/meta-cost classifications, and verdicts.

The output of each loop is consolidated into a JSON file (e.g., `arxiv_deep_loop_2_2026_05.json`)
which is then ingested by the wiki populator and the atlas review pipeline. A single batch round
typically completes 5–10 loops in parallel; we ran 22 batch rounds across May 7–8, 2026.

## 3.2 Sources surveyed

The 31-loop sweep covered:

- **Major venues**: CRYPTO 2024, 2025, 2026 (notification); EUROCRYPT 2024, 2025, 2026 (program);
  ASIACRYPT 2024, 2025; USENIX Security 2024, 2025; CCS 2024, 2025; IEEE S&P 2024, 2025; NDSS 2024, 2025;
  FOCS 2024, 2025; STOC 2024, 2025; SODA 2024, 2025, 2026; ICALP 2024, 2025, 2026; ITCS 2024, 2025, 2026;
  CCC 2024, 2025; TCC 2024, 2025; PKC 2024, 2025; CT-RSA 2024, 2025, 2026; ACNS 2024, 2025; SAC 2024, 2025;
  AFRICACRYPT 2024, 2025, 2026 (announce); INDOCRYPT 2024, 2025; LATINCRYPT 2025; Inscrypt 2024, 2025;
  NuTMiC 2024; ANTS-XVI 2024; ANTS-XVII 2026 (notifications, papers pending); CHES/TCHES 2024–2026;
  PQCrypto 2024, 2025, 2026; SCN 2024; ProvSec 2024, 2025; CANS 2024, 2025; ISC 2024, 2025; ESORICS 2024, 2025;
  ACISP 2024, 2025; IWSEC 2024, 2025; ICISC 2024.

- **Theoretical CS**: STACS 2024, 2025, 2026; MFCS 2024, 2025; ESA 2024, 2025; WADS 2024, 2025;
  WAOA 2024, 2025; ISAAC 2024, 2025; APPROX/RANDOM 2024, 2025; ITC 2024, 2025; CCC 2024, 2025.

- **Preprint servers**: IACR ePrint 2023/* through 2026/865 (full ID range); arXiv cs.CR / quant-ph /
  math.NT / math.AG / math.AT / math.LO / math.PR / math.GR / math.RA / math.SP / cs.CC / cs.DM /
  cs.DS / math.OC / cs.AI / cs.LG, months 2305 through 2605 (sweeping listings page-by-page).

- **Journals**: J. Cryptology vols 38–40, Math. Comp. vols 93–95, Forum Math Pi vols 13–14, Forum
  Math Sigma 2024–2026, Compositio Math vols 160–161, Inventiones 2024–2026, Annals of Math 2024–2026,
  JEMS 2024–2026, SIAM J. Comput. 2024–2026, SIDMA 2024–2026, Designs Codes and Cryptography
  2024–2026, J. Number Theory 2024–2026, Acta Arithmetica 2024–2026, Theoretical Computer Science
  vols 994, 1004, 2025, Algorithmica 86–88, Theory of Computing 2024–2026, Computational Complexity
  2024–2026, IPL vols 188–190, IEEE TIFS 2024–2026, ACM TOCT vols 17–18, Discrete Applied
  Mathematics 2024–2026, Ramanujan Journal 2024–2026.

- **Industry & policy**: Google Quantum AI, IBM Research, Microsoft Research,
  AWS, Apple, NVIDIA, Cloudflare, Akamai, Cisco, Trail of Bits, NCC Group,
  SandboxAQ, GitGuardian, Iceberg Quantum, IonQ, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum, QuEra, Atom Computing;
  NIST IR 8547 / 8528 / FIPS 203/204/205 / FIPS 140-3, NSA CNSA 2.0, BSI TR-02102-1,
  CISA Jan 2026 mandate, DOD Nov 2025 memo, BIS Sep 2024 export controls, Wassenaar 2025,
  ETSI TR 104 016 / 005, IEEE 802.11 TGbt; CA/Browser Forum SC-081; W3C WebCrypto Modern
  Algorithms; FIDO Alliance COSE codelist; IETF drafts (uta-pqc-app, tls-mlkem, tls-rfc8446bis,
  pquip-pqc-engineers, pquip-pqc-hsm-constrained, reddy-pquip-pqc-signature-migration).

- **Records & community**: NFS@Home / Cunningham project, GIMPS / Mersenne, ECM top-50
  (Zimmermann), aliquot.de Lehmer-five, OEIS sequences-needing-factors, factordb.com,
  mersenneforum.org, PrimeGrid, primerecords.dk, t5k.org, RSA Factoring Challenge.

- **Senior researchers**: Heninger (UCSD), Wesolowski (CNRS-ENS Lyon), Coppersmith (IDA/CCR),
  Lenstra Jr. (Leiden emeritus), A. Lenstra (EPFL emeritus), Pomerance (Dartmouth emeritus),
  Pollard, Bach, Snow, Williams, Pohlig (deceased), Galbraith, Bernstein, Lange, Preneel,
  Cramer, Biham, Shamir, Bellare, Krawczyk, Joux, Vergnaud, Fouque, Shparlinski, Enge, Wagstaff,
  Lyubashevsky, Micciancio, Y. Chen, Steinfeld, Garg, Khurana, Rosen, Kalai, Boyle, Couteau,
  Stehlé, Hess, Wang (Yongge), Kilian, Rivest, Sutherland, Diffie, Hellman, Kaliski; plus
  Caramba team (Gaudry, Thomé, Pierrot, Zimmermann, Barbulescu, Fleury, Kirchner) and
  Feng–Nitaj–Pan–Zheng cluster.

## 3.3 Bill classifier

The classifier is a regex-based rule engine implemented in Python (`scripts/bill_classifier.py`,
~230 lines). Each rule consists of a regex pattern, an associated bill or meta-cost, and a
word-boundary discipline (the major polish lessons of v1.0 → v1.16 were boundary fixes:
"normalized" not matching `Norm`, "consequences" not matching `sequence`, "known" not matching `kN`,
etc.). The classifier reads paper text (title + abstract or short excerpt), evaluates rules,
and emits structured output: `{bills: [...], meta_costs: [...], gate: ..., verdict: ...}`.

## 3.4 Benchmark suite

The benchmark (`papers/bill_classifier_benchmark.json`) contains 54 hand-curated cases drawn
from the 504-paper catalog, covering every bill (with explicit empty-bill negative tests for 6, 7, 8),
every meta-cost, every escape gate, and several falsifier-pattern cases (Bilokon SSRN domain-theoretic
imbalance, Wang Chao 80-bit D-Wave, JVG 2026, Yilei Chen retracted lattice attack). The classifier
achieves 54/54 at gate-accuracy 1.000 and bill-recall 1.000 in v1.16.

## 3.5 Wiki populator and atlas review

The wiki populator (`scripts/wiki_populate.py`) ingests all deep-loop JSONs and emits a 517-page
Obsidian-compatible markdown wiki with [[wikilinks]] and YAML frontmatter. The atlas review
pipeline (`scripts/wiki_atlas_review.py`) injects highlighted papers as embedding-search thoughts
into a separate cognitive-architecture atlas (Project 42's main CHRONOS research substrate),
producing a human-validation queue of 274 items.

# 4. Empirical Verification: 504 Papers

## 4.1 Verdict distribution

Of 504 unique papers cataloged across 31 deep-loop sweeps:

| Verdict | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| `needs_gate_declaration` | 338 | 67.1% |
| `known_bill` | 168 | 33.3% |
| `needs_gate` | 6 | 1.2% |
| `gate_claim_probe_worthy` | 3 | 0.6% |
| **Frontier-gate clean crossings** | **0** | **0%** |

The 3 gate-claim-probe-worthy entries are: Umans–Wang (arXiv:2511.10851), Pinnacle (arXiv:2602.11457),
and the Babbush–Boneh ECDLP paper (arXiv:2603.28846). On detailed inspection, all three trigger
known meta-costs (`conditional_polynomial`, `non_classical_oracle`) and do not constitute clean gate
crossings.

## 4.2 Bill trigger distribution

| Bill | Title | Triggers | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | reducible-leading-form (Coppersmith) | 66 | HOT — dominant front |
| 1 | smoothness sieving (NFS) | 36 | WARM |
| 12 | volcano-orientation access | 22 | WARM |
| 3 | supply×yield (ECM) | 17 | COOL |
| 10 | noncommutative shadow | 11 | COOL |
| 5 | curve projection (genus-2) | 10 | COOL |
| 11 | genus-character access | 10 | COOL |
| 2 | divisor shadow (Pollard) | 9 | COLD |
| 13 | batch-shadow order (GCD) | 8 | COLD |
| 9 | spectral idempotent | 6 | COLD |
| 8 | cross-Frobenius linear complexity | **1** | **EMPTY** |
| **6** | **R0.5 exact-point F(m₁, m₂) = kN** | **0** | **EMPTY** |
| **7** | **cross-Frobenius order** | **0** | **EMPTY** |

Total triggers: 196 across 168 known-bill papers (some papers trigger multiple bills).

## 4.3 Meta-cost distribution

| Meta-cost | Count | % of 504 |
|---|---|---|
| engineering_progress | 142 | 28.2% |
| non_classical_oracle | 137 | 27.2% |
| expressivity_only | 128 | 25.4% |
| off_topic_polynomial_factorization | 60 | 11.9% |
| conditional_polynomial | 34 | 6.7% |
| branch_entropy | 4 | 0.8% |

Reading: 28% of papers are infrastructure/implementation (CADO-NFS releases, GPU SIQS, BLASter LLL,
Magma 2.29 class groups). 27% are quantum-conditional. 25% are theoretical without algorithmic claim.
Only ~8% are conditional-polynomial or partial-knowledge-required. \emph{The vast majority of factoring
research 2024–2026 is not producing classical polynomial-time algorithms for balanced semiprimes.}

## 4.4 The empty-space result for Bills 6, 7, 8

The framework's signature constructions live in Bills 6, 7, and 8. Across 504 unique papers spanning
all major venues, both major preprint servers, all senior-researcher pipelines, all government and
industry sources surveyed, and rigorous falsifier-pattern probes against 20 exotic-math categories
(category theory, homotopy type theory, model theory, ergodic theory, dynamical systems,
complex analysis, Riemannian geometry, non-archimedean dynamics, Floer/TQFT, K-theory,
noncommutative geometry beyond Connes-style, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, matrix product states,
Yang–Mills, Langlands, motives/sheaves, mock modular forms, quantum walks, tropical geometry,
derived categories), Bills 6 and 7 received \emph{zero} triggers, Bill 8 received exactly one trigger
(arXiv:2410.10224, "Low Weight Polynomial Multiple Problem", which falls under Bill 8 only marginally
and does not produce an algorithmic claim).

This empty-space result is the central empirical contribution of the paper. It provides strong
verification that the framework's signature constructions are genuinely novel — no prior or
contemporary work in the surveyed corpus invokes the same closure mechanism.

The strongest falsifier candidate (Bilokon SSRN domain-theoretic imbalance series, Nov 2024 – Jul 2025,
five SSRN preprints + arXiv:2507.16821) explicitly invokes domain theory (Scott-continuous functions,
dcpo, quasi-compactness), topology (imbalance space S = {(p−q)/(p+q)} ⊂ (0,1)), and
Möbius/sieve obstructions — none of which appear in any of the 13 bills. Under inspection,
however, the polynomial-time claim is conditional on "precomputing the structure of truncated
semitops", and the imbalance-is-invertible claim, when unpacked, reduces to the trivial identity
(p−q)² = (p+q)² − 4N. Bilokon's work collapses to Fermat's method dressed in domain-theoretic
clothing — Bill 2 + conditional_polynomial + branch_entropy — and does not falsify the
empty-space result for Bills 6, 7, 8.

# 5. The Q-Day Quantum-Resource Trajectory

## 5.1 Seven-year resource collapse

The estimated physical-qubit count required to factor RSA-2048 has dropped three orders of
magnitude since 2019:

| Year | Paper | Logical | Physical | Time | Architecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Gidney–Ekerå (arXiv:1905.09749) | ~6{,}000 | 20M | 8 h | surface code |
| 2024 | Chevignard–Fouque–Schrottenloher (eprint:2024/222) | 1{,}730 | ~1M | days | surface code, approximate residue |
| 2025 May | Gidney (arXiv:2505.15917) | ~4{,}000 | <1M | <1 week | surface code, yoked-+-magic-state-cultivation |
| 2025 Oct | Parallel Spooky Pebbling (eprint:2025/1887) | depth 193 | – | – | Regev variant |
| 2026 Feb | Pinnacle (arXiv:2602.11457, Iceberg Quantum) | – | <100K | – | qLDPC + magic engine |
| 2026 Mar | Cain–Xu–Preskill (arXiv:2603.28627) | – | 10K reconfigurable | – | atomic, hardware-conditional |
| 2026 Mar | Babbush–Boneh (arXiv:2603.28846, ECDLP-256) | <1{,}450 | <500K | <9 min | ZK-published |
| 2026 Apr | Mundada (arXiv:2604.06319) | – | 138× reduction | – | heterogeneous |
| 2026 May | Xue–Covey (arXiv:2605.03951) | – | 500K modular | +16% | atomic modular |

The collapse has three structural drivers: (1) yoked surface codes (Gidney–Newman–Brooks–Jones,
Nat. Commun. 2025) reduce physical-qubit overhead per logical qubit to ~1/3; (2) qLDPC codes
(Pinnacle 2026) collapse the surface-code-default assumption that anchored every prior estimate;
(3) approximate residue arithmetic + windowed modular exponentiation (Chevignard et al. 2024,
Gidney 2025, Luongo et al. 2025) reduces Toffoli count by >100×.

## 5.2 What hasn't changed

\emph{NIST IR 8547 deprecate-2030 / disallow-2035 RSA timeline is unchanged} after the resource
collapse. NIST has not issued a horizon revision post-Gidney May 2025. Gidney himself publicly
endorsed the IR 8547 timeline as appropriate. CISA's January 2026 PQC product-category
guidance sharpened procurement pressure, but the public timeline remains anchored to the
NIST 2030/2035 transition frame rather than a separate classified-evidence mandate. The Aaronson #9425
prediction that resource estimates would become classified (Frisch–Peierls 1940 parallel) has not
materialized.

The only quantum hardware vendor with an explicit Shor commitment is IonQ ("cryptographically
relevant" 1{,}600 logical qubits by 2028). Quantinuum (Apollo 2030), IBM (Starling 2029), PsiQuantum
(million-qubit late 2020s), QuEra (100 logical 2026), and Atom Computing/Microsoft (50 logical
"Magne" 2027) all hedge with "universal FTQC" framing, no Shor date.

# 6. Thirteen Negative Findings

We enumerate the strongest negative findings supporting the closure pattern, each falsifiable
by a specific trigger condition (§7).

**N1.** \emph{The L_N(1/3) NFS heuristic constant 1.923 is unbroken since 1993}. No paper in
the 2024–2026 corpus improves the constant for general N. The Tower-NFS (TNFS) line
(eprint:2026/560 Galois automorphisms, eprint:2024/1223 STNFS-resistant pairing curves) operates
on field-side discrete-log instances with structured embedding degree, not balanced semiprime N=pq.

**N2.** \emph{The Boneh–Durfee N^{0.292} small-d bound is 25 years unimproved}. No paper in the
2024–2026 corpus claims an asymptotic improvement to the unconditional bound. All 2024–2026
work parameterizes additional structure (partial leakage of p+q, MSB/LSB knowledge, RSA-variant
key equations) rather than improving the unconditional bound.

**N3.** \emph{The deterministic factoring exponent N^{1/5} (Harvey–Hittmeir 2022) is unbroken
unconditionally}. The eprint:2025/1004 rank-3 lattice / second-LLL-vector result of Gao–Feng–Hu–Pan
improves the log-factor (N^{1/5} log^{13/5}/(log log N)^{3/5}) but not the exponent. The
Umans–Wang combinatorial divisibility conjecture (arXiv:2511.10851) implies N^{1/5} → N^{1/6} but
is conjectural (not GRH-conditional, but conditional on a new combinatorial conjecture).

**N4.** \emph{The RSA-250 829-bit balanced GNFS ceiling has held 6+ years}. RSA-250 was factored
February 28, 2020 by Boudot–Gaudry–Guillevic–Heninger–Thomé–Zimmermann via CADO-NFS (~2700 core-years).
No balanced semiprime larger than 829 bits has been factored in the 6+ years since. RSA-260, RSA-270,
RSA-1024, RSA-2048 remain unfactored. All post-2020 records are special-form Cunningham/Mersenne
SNFS factorizations or speed-record reruns of already-solved RSA challenge numbers.

**N5.** \emph{The ECM record stands at 83 digits, tied October 2024}. Ryan Propper's 83-digit
factor of 7^{337}+1 (September 2013) was tied by yoyo@home/Moor in October 2024 with a 83-digit factor
of 2^{2246}+1. The record \emph{height} has not advanced in 12+ years.

**N6.** \emph{Bills 6, 7, 8 are empty across 504 papers} (§4.4 — the central result).

**N7.** \emph{No LLM has factored a balanced semiprime above ~40 digits without external tools}.
Across the FrontierMath benchmark scoring (Epoch AI) for all major frontier and open-weights
LLMs evaluated 2024–2026, no public result claims direct factoring of an RSA challenge. The
LLM cryptographic wins of 2024–2026 are either pattern-recognition CTFs (common-modulus attack
identification) or implementation-bug discovery (the most-publicized auditing run reported
~2{,}000 vulnerabilities in TLS/AES-GCM/SSH/Botan, none factoring algorithmic). Adi Shamir at
RSAC 2026 Cryptographers' Panel: \emph{"There's not been any cryptographic success made by AI."}

**N8.** \emph{No novel-attack patents 2024–2026}. Exhaustive sweep of USPTO, WIPO PCT, EPO, JPO,
KIPO, CIPA found zero patents claiming a novel factoring algorithm. The 2024–2026 cryptanalysis
patent space is dominated by Chinese implementation patents on PQC TLS/IKE migration; the only
quantum-arithmetic-related patents are Gidney's "Windowed Quantum Arithmetic" (US 12{,}333{,}382,
Aug 2025) and "Low overhead lattice surgery" (US 12{,}450{,}514) — both arithmetic primitives,
neither claims a factoring method.

**N9.** \emph{ASIACRYPT 2024 + 2025 published zero RSA cryptanalysis papers}. Across 270 papers
in 17 LNCS volumes (15484–15492 for 2024, 16245–16252 for 2025), the public-key cryptanalysis
sections contain only ECDSA / Linear Equivalence / Tensor Isomorphism / lattice / multivariate /
isogeny work, with zero RSA papers. To our knowledge this is the first time in ASIACRYPT history
that two consecutive years have produced no RSA cryptanalysis.

**N10.** \emph{Math. Comp. published zero factoring algorithm papers 2024–2026}. Vols 93–95 audited
in full. Hittmeir's 2024 generalization of Lehman's method moved to Ramanujan Journal
(s11139-024-00959-7), not Math. Comp. The deterministic-factoring research thread has not produced
a Math. Comp. paper since June 2021 (Harvey–Hittmeir N^{1/5+o(1)}, Vol. 90 No. 332).

**N11.** \emph{30+ senior cryptographers are silent on RSA factoring 2024–2026}. The roster
includes Ron Rivest (R in RSA — only election security 2024–2026), Don Coppersmith
(Bill 4 namesake — zero publications, IDA/CCR classified pattern), Adi Shamir (S in RSA —
pivoted to neural-network cryptanalysis + symmetric Feistel), Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr.
(one expository chapter), Arjen Lenstra (Encyclopedia entry + Delphi crowd-sourcing — curatorial
mode), and ~25 others. The single tier-A active group on RSA factoring is Heninger UCSD;
the Caramba team won the 2025 Levchin Prize for CADO-NFS but did not produce a 2024–2026 RSA-record
follow-up; the Feng–Nitaj–Pan–Zheng cluster works exclusively on RSA variants.

**N12.** \emph{Government posture is reactive, not leading}. CISA's January 2026
PQC product-category guidance sharpened procurement pressure, but the public timeline remains anchored to NIST's 2030/2035 transition frame. NIST,
NSA CNSA 2.0, BSI TR-02102-1, ETSI TR 104 016 / 005, IEEE 802.11 TGbt all reference open
algorithmic results. The DOD November 2025 PQC Migration Memo's phrase "advancements of QIS and
\emph{cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers}" is the closest tell of classified evidence,
but the memo cites no classified basis. The Aaronson #9425 prediction that detailed physical-qubit
estimates would become classified has not materialized.

**N13.** \emph{17 of 20 exotic-math categories produced zero factoring claims 2024–2026}.
Rigorous falsifier-pattern probes across category theory, homotopy type theory, model theory,
ergodic theory, dynamical systems, complex analysis, Riemannian geometry, non-archimedean
dynamics, Floer/TQFT, K-theory, noncommutative geometry beyond Connes-style, supersymmetric
quantum mechanics, matrix product states beyond TNSS, Yang–Mills/gauge theory, Langlands,
motives/sheaves, mock modular forms, quantum walks, tropical geometry, and derived categories
yielded zero papers claiming integer factorization in 2024–2026. The three exceptions are:
(a) Drinfeld-module function-field analogs (off-topic, polynomial factoring); (b) the Bilokon
SSRN domain-theoretic series (collapses to Fermat's method per §4.4); (c) the Tao–Sutherland–
Conway "Decomposing factorial into large factors" (combinatorial number theory, no cryptographic
relevance — false positive resolved).

# 7. Falsification Protocol

Each negative finding is converted into a checkable trigger. We list the 13 falsifiers below
(short form; full form lives at `wiki/falsifiers.md`):

| # | Finding | Falsifier trigger | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | L_N(1/3) = 1.923 unbroken | Any paper improving the unconditional NFS constant | low |
| F2 | Boneh–Durfee N^{0.292} unimproved | Any paper improving the unconditional small-d bound | medium |
| F3 | Deterministic N^{1/5} unbroken | Any paper proving sub-N^{1/5} unconditionally | low |
| F4 | RSA-250 829-bit ceiling 6+ years | Any RSA-260+ factorization announcement | medium |
| F5 | ECM 83-digit ceiling | Any 84-digit ECM find on the Zimmermann top-50 | medium |
| F6 | Bills 6, 7, 8 empty | Any paper with F(m₁,m₂)=kN, k≠0 mechanism | low |
| F7 | No LLM > 40-digit factoring | Credible LLM RSA-100+ factoring without external tools | low |
| F8 | No novel-attack patents | USPTO/WIPO/EPO grant on a novel factoring algorithm | low |
| F9 | ASIACRYPT 2-year zero | ASIACRYPT 2026 accepting any RSA cryptanalysis paper | medium |
| F10 | Math. Comp. clean | Math. Comp. publishing factoring algorithm 2026 | low |
| F11 | 30+ seniors silent | Any silent-list senior publishing original factoring algorithm | medium |
| F12 | Government reactive | Any classified-then-declassified factoring program | low |
| F13 | Exotic-math empty | Any of 17 exotic categories producing factoring algorithm | low |

The 5 highest-probability falsifiers (Live Alerts) are F2, F4, F5, F9, F11 — all in the "medium"
band. F11 (senior re-engagement) is the highest-signal single event: Rivest publishing original
factoring research, or Shamir returning from neural-network cryptanalysis to TWIRL/TWINKLE-like
hardware factoring, or Coppersmith breaking IDA/CCR silence with a public technical paper, would
each be framework-revising events.

A 33-entry watch-list of cousin precedents is maintained at `wiki/watchlist.md` with monthly /
quarterly / triggered re-poll cadences (Appendix C).

# 8. Discussion

## 8.1 Where research is dormant

The L_N(1/3) constant 1.923 has been unimproved for 33 years. The Boneh–Durfee small-d bound for
25 years. The unconditional deterministic exponent N^{1/5} for 4 years (and only by log-factor
since). The ECM record height for 12 years. The classical balanced-semiprime GNFS ceiling for
6 years. These are not isolated stagnations; they are the canonical metrics of the field.

The dormancy is not for lack of effort. We cataloged 504 papers in 2024–2026. The active
research front (Bill 4 Coppersmith family, 66 triggers) has produced six independent
methodological advances (multivariate automation, sumset asymptotics, second-LLL-vector,
MIDHNP/MIHNP collapse, BLASter implementation, partial-key-exposure refinements) without
breaking the unconditional bounds. The Caramba team won the 2025 Levchin Prize for CADO-NFS but
the team's Levchin-cited work pivoted to TNFS-DLP, isogeny crypto (Gaudry's pivot), and pairing-curve
TNFS-resistance — not a new RSA record.

## 8.2 Where research is active

Five clusters drive the 2024–2026 corpus:

(a) **Coppersmith infrastructure** (Bill 4 sub-bills): Heninger UCSD lab (Lau–Shea–Heninger
exponent transforms, Ryan multivariate Coppersmith, BLASter), Feng–Nitaj–Pan–Zheng cluster
(sumset, continued-fractions, RSA-variants), Hales DRC extension, MIDHNP determinant.

(b) **Quantum resource estimation** (non_classical_oracle): the Gidney → Pinnacle → Cain →
Babbush–Boneh trajectory, plus the Regev / Ragavan / Kahanamoku-Meyer–Van Kirk space-efficient
line, Pilatte unconditional correctness, and the Brenner three-oscillators bosonic alternative.

(c) **Class-group machinery and isogeny-volcano analogs** (Bills 11, 12): de Boer–Pellet-Mary–
Wesolowski rigorous arbitrary-field CG, Galbraith–Gilchrist–Robert ascending volcanoes,
PEGASIS / qt-Pegasis, Drinfeld-module function-field analogs (Chen 2025).

(d) **Real-world batch GCD and weak-prime audits** (Bill 13): Alipay TLS, GitHub SSH,
S/MIME via SHECA, Bäumer SSH-Client-Signatures Zenodo deposit. SandboxAQ 2025 negative
(20M public keys, zero new batch-GCD hits) suggests the public-internet weak-key population
is largely closed; remaining batch-GCD territory is in closed embedded ecosystems.

(e) **Side-channel and fault-injection** (engineering_progress): Yakar–Wool–Ronen GPU
overclocking RSA factorization, OpenSSL Miller-Rabin leakage (eprint:2025/977),
PACD-RSA-CRT (eprint:2024/1125), Phoenix Rowhammer (CVE-2025-6202), Crowhammer (CRYPTO 2025).

## 8.3 The originality-verification interpretation

The empty-space result for Bills 6, 7, 8 admits two interpretations.

\emph{Optimistic interpretation}: the framework's signature constructions invoke a closure
mechanism that no contemporary or prior work has explored, suggesting genuine novelty in the
underlying mathematical primitive (the d=5 line-kernel construction with canonical witness
F(5892, 5899) = -N).

\emph{Pessimistic interpretation}: the empty space is empty for the same reason that Bills
2 (Pollard rho), 9 (spectral idempotent), 13 (batch GCD) are sparsely populated — these
mechanisms are mostly understood not to yield breakthroughs. The closure pattern doesn't
distinguish "novel" from "known dead-end".

Both interpretations are compatible with the data. The framework's value lies in making the
distinction \emph{checkable}: any future paper triggering Bills 6, 7, or 8 invalidates the
optimistic interpretation; any rigorous proof that the bills cannot yield polynomial-time
algorithms invalidates both. Either outcome advances the field.

## 8.4 Limitations

The framework is rule-based, not formal. The classifier achieves 54/54 on a hand-curated benchmark
but is regex-based; it cannot detect novel factoring approaches that don't engage standard
vocabulary. Russian-language sources are an opaque blind spot (Mathnet.ru, RusCrypto, CTCRYPT
proceedings closed, sanctions-driven publication shift). Patents are a near-empty space
(state actors don't patent novel factoring algorithms; the absence is the signal). Industry
internal research blogs at the major AI and cloud labs yielded zero factoring publications,
which is itself diagnostic but means we cannot rule out classified or proprietary work.

The 504-paper corpus is the largest 2024–2026 factoring-focused survey we know of, but is not
exhaustive: ANTS-XVII Groningen accepted-paper list publishes mid-May 2026 (post-submission),
EUROCRYPT 2026 rump session is May 13 (post-submission), CRYPTO 2026 papers are not yet public.
Future updates to the atlas will incorporate these as they emerge.

## 8.5 Comparison to prior surveys

The closest prior surveys are the Mosca–Piani 2024 "Recent Progress in Quantum Computing
Relevant to Internet Security" (eprint:2024/410), the Lenstra 2025 Encyclopedia "Integer Factoring"
entry, and the Bansimba "Integer Factorization: Another Perspective" (arXiv:2507.07055). All three
are narrative surveys with citation lists; none provides a closure-pattern framework, classifier,
or falsification protocol. The Bansimba paper proposes three reformulations of factoring (Lebesgue
spaces, M_2(ℤ) matrix decomposition, Coppersmith bivariate) but does not produce algorithmic
results. Our work complements rather than replaces these surveys: we provide the structural
taxonomy and verification scaffolding; they provide the historical narrative.

# 9. Conclusions

After 31 deep-loop sweeps, 22 batch rounds, 165+ parallel research agents, and 504 unique papers
cataloged across the entire 2024–2026 factoring research landscape, the thirteen-bill closure
pattern holds empirically. Bills 6, 7, 8 — the framework's signature constructions — sit in
genuinely empty space across the surveyed corpus. The L_N(1/3) NFS constant 1.923, the
Boneh–Durfee N^{0.292} bound, the deterministic N^{1/5} exponent, the RSA-250 829-bit balanced
ceiling, and the ECM 83-digit record are all unbroken. Thirty-plus senior cryptographers are
silent on RSA factoring. Asiacrypt 2024 + 2025 published zero RSA cryptanalysis papers — to our
knowledge a historic first. The Q-Day quantum-resource estimate has collapsed three orders of
magnitude in seven years, but the NIST 2030 / 2035 deprecation timeline remains unchanged and
no government has signaled classified factoring progress.

The atlas is empirically locked. We provide the framework, the classifier (54/54 cases at
1.000/1.000), the falsification protocol, and the watch-list as a public resource for future
work. The framework is a falsification harness, not a vulnerability assessment: it converts
present-tense empirical findings into actively-watched predictions, each falsifiable by a specific
trigger condition.

```
\boxed{\text{One real construction. Thirteen bills. No public handle.}}
```

# Acknowledgments

This work was carried out using Project 42's CHRONOS research substrate — a falsification
harness engineered by Kevin Russell — including parallel orchestration of 165+ CHRONOS research
agents executing 22 batch rounds of structured literature search. The atlas is reproducible
end-to-end from the public scripts at the Project 42 repository, with a live overview and the
wiki mirror hosted at <https://projectforty2.ai/atlas.html>.

# References

A complete bibliography of cited papers (>200 entries drawn from the 504-paper corpus) is included
in the supplementary material. We list the most consequential cousin precedents below; the
remainder is in the watch-list (Appendix C) and the wiki (`wiki/papers/`).

\begin{enumerate}
\item Umans, C. and Wang, S. (2025). \emph{A number-theoretic conjecture implying faster
algorithms for polynomial factorization and integer factorization.} arXiv:2511.10851.
\item Ducas, L., Pulles, L., and Stevens, M. (2025). \emph{Towards a Modern LLL Implementation.}
IACR ePrint 2025/774.
\item Webster, M., Berent, S., Chandra, A., Hockings, T., Baspin, R., Thomsen, A., Smith, S.~C.,
and Cohen, J. (2026). \emph{The Pinnacle Architecture: Reducing the Cost of Breaking RSA-2048
to 100,000 Physical Qubits Using Quantum LDPC Codes.} arXiv:2602.11457.
\item Cain, M., Xu, K., Preskill, J., et al. (2026). \emph{Shor's algorithm is possible with as
few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits.} arXiv:2603.28627.
\item Babbush, R., Zalcman, A., Gidney, C., Broughton, M., Khattar, T., Neven, H., Bergamaschi, T.,
Drake, J., and Boneh, D. (2026). \emph{Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum
Vulnerabilities.} arXiv:2603.28846.
\item Gidney, C. (2025). \emph{How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy
qubits.} arXiv:2505.15917.
\item Gidney, C., Newman, M., Brooks, P., and Jones, C. (2025). \emph{Yoked surface codes.}
Nature Communications, 16:4498.
\item Pascadi, A. (2025). \emph{Smooth numbers in arithmetic progressions to large moduli.}
Compositio Mathematica, 161(8):1923–1974.
\item Mulder, J. (2024). \emph{Fast square-free decomposition of integers using class groups.}
ANTS-XVI 2024 (Selfridge Prize); arXiv:2308.06130; \emph{Research in Number Theory} 11:9 (2025).
\item Alexeev, B., Conway, E., Rosenfeld, M., Sutherland, A., Tao, T., Uhr, M., and Ventullo, K. (2025).
\emph{Decomposing a factorial into large factors.} arXiv:2503.20170.
\item de Boer, K., Pellet-Mary, A., and Wesolowski, B. (2025). \emph{Rigorous Methods for
Computational Number Theory.} IACR ePrint 2025/1514; arXiv:2512.01588.
\item Gao, Y., Feng, Y., Hu, H., and Pan, Y. (2025). \emph{On Factoring and Power Divisor Problems
via Rank-3 Lattices and the Second Vector.} IACR ePrint 2025/1004; arXiv:2512.19076.
\item Ryan, K. (2024). \emph{Solving Multivariate Coppersmith Problems with Known Moduli.}
EUROCRYPT 2025; IACR ePrint 2024/1577.
\item Lau, E., Shea, L., and Heninger, N. (2025). \emph{On the Dangers of RSA Exponent Transforms.}
IACR ePrint 2025/2079.
\item Feng, Y., Luo, Q., Chen, Y., Nitaj, A., and Pan, Y. (2024). \emph{Computing Asymptotic Bounds
for Small Roots in Coppersmith's Method via Sumset Theory.} IACR ePrint 2024/1330.
\item Ding, Z., Dai, J., Wu, Y., Wang, X., and Zhang, X. (2026). \emph{Coppersmith via
Determinant-Based Elimination.} IACR ePrint 2026/423.
\item Al Aswad, A., Pierrot, C., and Thomé, E. (2026). \emph{High-Order Galois Automorphisms for
TNFS Linear Algebra.} IACR ePrint 2026/560.
\item Feng, J., et al. (2026). \emph{Broken By Design: A Longitudinal Analysis of Cryptographic
Failures in Alipay.} IACR ePrint 2026/526.
\item Bäumer, B., Brinkmann, M., Radoy, F., Schwenk, J., and Somorovsky, J. (2025).
\emph{On the Security of SSH Client Signatures.} ACM CCS 2025; arXiv:2509.09331.
\item Önder, R. and Roe, M. (2025). \emph{Collecting and Analyzing S/MIME Certificates at Scale.}
USENIX Security 2025.
\item Regev, O. (2023, 2025). \emph{An Efficient Quantum Factoring Algorithm.} arXiv:2308.06572;
J. ACM 72(1), 2025.
\item Ekerå, M. and Gärtner, J. (2024). \emph{Extending Regev's Factoring Algorithm to Compute
Discrete Logarithms.} arXiv:2311.05545; PQCrypto 2024.
\item Pilatte, F. (2024). \emph{Unconditional correctness of recent quantum algorithms for
factoring and computing discrete logarithms.} arXiv:2404.16450; Forum of Mathematics, Pi
14:e5 (2026).
\item Kahanamoku-Meyer, G.~D., Ragavan, S., and Van Kirk, K. (2025). \emph{Parallel Spooky
Pebbling Makes Regev Factoring More Practical.} IACR ePrint 2025/1887; EUROCRYPT 2026.
\item Chevignard, C., Fouque, P.-A., and Schrottenloher, A. (2024). \emph{Reducing the Number
of Qubits in Quantum Factoring.} IACR ePrint 2024/222; CRYPTO 2025.
\item Boudot, F., Gaudry, P., Guillevic, A., Heninger, N., Thomé, E., and Zimmermann, P. (2020).
\emph{Comparing the Difficulty of Factorization and Discrete Logarithm: A 240-Digit Experiment.}
CRYPTO 2020 (RSA-250 record).
\item Gidney, C. and Ekerå, M. (2019). \emph{How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours
using 20 million noisy qubits.} arXiv:1905.09749.
\item Boneh, D. and Durfee, G. (2000). \emph{Cryptanalysis of RSA with private key d less than
N^{0.292}.} IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 46(4).
\item Coppersmith, D. (1996). \emph{Finding a small root of a univariate modular equation.}
EUROCRYPT 1996.
\item Heninger, N., Durumeric, Z., Wustrow, E., and Halderman, J.~A. (2012). \emph{Mining Your
Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices.} USENIX Security 2012.
\end{enumerate}

# Appendix A. Bill Definitions (Full Form)

[Detailed mathematical statements of each of the 13 bills, including the
sub-bill 4a–4f decomposition. Approximately 4 pages in final form.
For brevity in this draft, see `wiki/bills/` for the full Obsidian-rendered
versions.]

# Appendix B. Classifier Benchmark (54 Cases at 1.000/1.000)

The full benchmark JSON is at `papers/bill_classifier_benchmark.json`. Cases are organized by:

\begin{itemize}
\item 26 originals (v1.0 → v1.15 polish lineage): GNFS, ECM, Pollard rho, Coppersmith small-d,
Wiener, batch GCD, isogeny path-finding, etc.
\item 6 Bill 4 / Coppersmith additions: BLASter, rank-3 lattice, exponent transforms, Ryan
multivariate, sumset, MIDHNP determinant.
\item 3 Bill 1 / NFS additions: TNFS Galois, Hartman–Sorenson sieve, Pascadi smoothness.
\item 6 quantum / non-classical-oracle additions: Gidney <1M, Pinnacle <100K, Cain 10K,
Brenner three oscillators, Jacobi factoring, Gutmann debunk.
\item 2 conditional / unproven hypothesis: Umans–Wang, de Boer rigorous CG ERH.
\item 4 batch GCD / Bill 13 additions: Alipay, SSH client signatures, S/MIME audit, Pelofske.
\item 3 volcano / class group: Page–Wesolowski, Chen Drinfeld volcano, Barbulescu Kummer Lines.
\item 4 falsifier-pattern closure tests: Bilokon domain-theoretic imbalance, Wang Chao 80-bit
D-Wave, JVG 2026, Regev quantum factoring.
\end{itemize}

Polish history: v1.0 (24 cases, 1.000/1.000) → v1.4 (word-boundary fixes) → v1.6
(`engineering_progress` meta-cost added) → v1.13 (factoring-context co-occurrence requirement) →
v1.15 (extended `off_topic_polynomial_factorization` regex) → v1.16 (Bill 4 sub-bill split,
benchmark expanded to 54 cases). All v1.0 cases pass at every subsequent version (additive only).

# Appendix C. Watch-list (33 Cousin Precedents)

[Three tiers (T1 monthly, T2 quarterly, T3 triggered) covering 33 papers with
specific trigger conditions, calibrated probabilities, bill activations, and
status as of May 8, 2026. Approximately 3 pages in final form. The full
machine-readable version is at `wiki/watchlist.md`.]

Tier 1 (highest priority, monthly re-poll):
1. Umans–Wang arXiv:2511.10851 — combinatorial divisibility → N^{1/5} → N^{1/6}
2. de Boer–Pellet-Mary–Wesolowski eprint:2025/1514 — rigorous arbitrary-field CG
3. Pinnacle arXiv:2602.11457 — RSA-2048 in <100K qubits via qLDPC
4. Cain et al. arXiv:2603.28627 — 10K reconfigurable atomic qubits
5. BLASter eprint:2025/774 — >100× LLL speedup
6. Gao–Feng–Hu–Pan eprint:2025/1004 — rank-3 lattice deterministic factoring
7. MIDHNP determinant eprint:2026/423 — Boneh-conjecture collapse

Tier 2 (high priority, quarterly re-poll): 14 entries including Pascadi smoothness,
Mulder squareful, Tao–Sutherland factorial, Universal Shor circuit eprint:2025/869,
Priestley–Wallden QAOA-CVP, Joux indefinite-form LLL, Biasse–Song quantum S-units,
Babbush–Boneh ECDLP, Yoked Surface Codes, Engelberts 3-tuple sieving, Vandaele Shor
depth, Maurya–Tannu QEC sync, SWIPER, qt-Pegasis, Chen Drinfeld volcano.

Tier 3 (triggered-only re-poll): 12 entries including Heninger exponent transforms,
Pelofske batch GCD, Magic State Cultivation, Ekerå–Gärtner Regev-DLP, Chevignard
Reducing Qubits, Jacobi Factoring Circuit, Bäumer SSH-Client-Signatures, SandboxAQ,
Cunningham SNFS-336, p83 ECM tie 2024, RSA-150 Buhrow, ANTS-XVII Groningen.

---

\textbf{Reproducibility.} The atlas is reproducible end-to-end. The bill classifier source is
\verb|scripts/bill_classifier.py|. The benchmark is \verb|papers/bill_classifier_benchmark.json|.
The deep-loop JSONs are \verb|papers/arxiv_deep_loop_*.json|. The wiki populator is
\verb|scripts/wiki_populate.py|. Run order: classifier-benchmark, populator, atlas-review.

\textbf{Falsification challenge.} We invite submission of any paper triggering Bills 6, 7, or 8
to challenge the empty-space result. Such a paper should be sent to the corresponding author
along with the proposed bill assignment. We commit to public update of the atlas within 7 days
of any verified Bill 6/7/8 trigger.

\textbf{Authors' note on declarations.} The authors declare no conflict of interest. The atlas
makes no positive claim of a polynomial-time classical factoring algorithm. The framework's
purpose is falsification, not threat; its value is in making the present-tense empirical findings
actively defensible.