Anti-Checker Lemma round parameters #
At every sufficiently large arity, target hardness and a semantic extension estimator accurate through the required finite prefix range generate an anti-checker. This is the combinatorial round-composition contract; constructing a small circuit that realizes the estimator is a separate conditional step.
Global round-estimator accuracy implies the bounded accuracy contract used by the anti-checker construction.
The initial canonical survivor count is strictly below the power of two indexed by the selected number of halving blocks.
The published sample count eventually covers every shrinking round needed by the canonical circuit-code cardinality bound.
For every sufficiently large arity, any accurate round estimator produces
a 1/(4n) shrink trace of any requested length for every hard target.
For every sufficiently large arity, accuracy only through the required number of rounds produces the shrink trace used by the construction.
For every sufficiently large positive arity, any required-length greedy estimate-selection trace from an accurate estimator becomes an anti-checker after canonical zero padding to the published sample count.
For every sufficiently large arity, estimator accuracy through only the required rounds yields an anti-checker of exactly the published sample count for every hard target.