Codex GPT-5.5 cross-verified the Gemini partner red-pen audit
(paper/codex_partner_redpen_audit_v3_19_0.md) and downgraded item (j) --
the BIC strict-3-component upper-bound framing -- from RESOLVED to
IMPROVED, because the "upper bound" wording the partner originally
red-circled in v3.17 still survived in two methodology sentences and one
Table VI row label, even though Section IV-D.3 had been retitled
"A Forced Fit" in v3.18.
This commit closes that residual:
- Methodology III-I.2: "the 2-component crossing should be treated as
an upper bound rather than a definitive cut" -> "we report the
resulting crossing only as a forced-fit descriptive reference and do
not use it as an operational threshold".
- Methodology III-I.4: "should be read as an upper bound rather than a
definitive cut" -> "reported only as a descriptive reference rather
than as an operational threshold".
- Table VI row "0.973 (signature-level Beta/KDE upper bound)" relabelled
to "0.973 (signature-level Beta/KDE forced-fit reference)" to match
the IV-D.3 "Forced Fit" framing.
- reference_verification_v3.md header updated so the [5] entry reads as
an audit trail of a fix already applied (v3.18 reference list reflects
every correction) rather than as an active major problem.
- Rebuild Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx.
Also commits the codex partner-redpen audit artifact so the disagreement
trail with Gemini is preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>