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Exhaustive check of the two-parabola sets for small q
From the repository root run:
uv run --no-sync python wiki/theory/additive_bases/L208_two_parabola_maximal_sidon/evidence/main.pyThe program builds for from explicit irreducible polynomials, whose irreducibility it checks, and forms the set of the claim for every non-square . For each pair it checks that , that all unordered pair sums with doubles are distinct, that every point of outside is of the form with , and that the three explicit witness formulas of the proof produce valid witnesses for every such point. As a control, for every non-zero square it finds the repeated sum that the proof excludes for non-squares.
All arithmetic is exact. The program uses the repository's evidence harness and the Python standard library; it runs in about ten seconds and has no quick mode. Any failed obligation gives a nonzero exit, also under optimized Python. The check covers these finite fields only; the statement for every odd prime power rests on the proof.