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Switchyard

Exact candidate routing for topology-constrained switch fabrics.
ROUTE · membership test 12,432,960-word room 163.3× → 384.3× exact candidate reduction

A built surface is a switchyard: sources, ports and clocks that must be connected under a policy — which pairs may share a line, which orderings are legal, which overlaps are forbidden. Ask the question honestly and the room is enormous. Ask it by enumeration and you pay for every word you will never use.

Selenoform Switchyard compiles the declared topology into an exact candidate-routing policy. The command room is addressed, not built. A LEVEL support-shadow removes pair candidates that cannot carry the registered policy before the route test begins; every reduction is an arithmetic count, not a probability score or a heuristic prune.

The honest boundary is stated up front, because it is the difference between a real claim and a sales claim: if all you need is whether an unconstrained route exists, this is not the right tool — that problem is Abelian and direct CRT construction is the correct algorithm. Switchyard earns its place the moment the request carries ordered topology, chirality or overlap policy — information the local faces do not decide by themselves. Physical actuator mapping and joint-card containment remain engineering inputs, not claims hidden inside this census.

THE FLOOR   The switch floor m = 3 · 7 · 11 · 13 = 3003, whose well-formed command room contains 12,432,960 words.
THE RESULT   The route census, exactly, with the glue that ordinary local reasoning drops:
Log-scale data chart of five verified switch floors. The exhaustive unordered-pair census rises from 114,960 to 7,370,880 candidates. The Lattice OS LEVEL support-shadow census rises from 496 to 45,150 candidates. The exact reductions are 231.8, 260.1, 258.7, 384.3 and 163.3 times.
Apples to apples on every floor: all unordered pairs in the exhaustive divisor census against the exact LEVEL support-shadow candidates presented to the registered route policy. The reduction is 163.3×–384.3× across five verified floors. It is a deterministic candidate count, not host timing or projected throughput. The rounded public receipt is available here.

Exact candidate work — same policy stage, increasing floor

Floor mExhaustive unordered pairsLEVEL support-shadowExact reduction
1,155114,960496231.8×
2,145460,3201,770260.1×
3,0031,036,0804,005258.7×
4,6412,653,0566,903384.3×
7,2937,370,88045,150163.3×

Every row is a full certified presentation with zero residual dimension and periodic re-anchor invariance. This is the work removed before route-policy evaluation. It is not a hardware runtime or mass-throughput claim.

Secondary route census — exhaustive against policy-restricted

CensusBCTESTSource pairs probed
Exhaustive divisor census71,28039,60032,4003,108,240
LEVEL support-shadow21815511612,015
Exact ratio327×255×279×258.696629…×

Switchyard steel thread — floor m = 3·7·11·13 = 3003; clean-route counts by class; all 1,036,080 unordered pairs round-tripped; all 324 glue/clock representatives cross-checked against the direct relay and an independently implemented path calculation. A demonstration of the exact route-census capability, not a qualified flight or field control system.

How — the membership test, the policy, the glue

  1. Address the room; do not build it. Route legality reduces to an exact ideal-membership question on the switch floor, so a word is decided in place. The command room is a coordinate system, not a list. exact truth test · no materialization
  2. Let the support-shadow cut the census. Restricting the exhaustive divisor census to the declared LEVEL support-shadow reduces the probe count by a factor you can count in advance — here 258.7× — because the restriction is arithmetic on the floor, not a search heuristic. 3,108,240 → 12,015 pairs
  3. Recover the glue the local faces lose. Each atom fixes its pair by sum and product, which leaves the continuation ambiguous. Anchoring the first non-collision fibre produces an exchange-invariant word over three letters that, with the local faces, rebuilds the global unordered pair. 1,036,080 pairs round-trip
  4. Know when not to use it. Unconstrained route existence is Abelian and belongs to direct CRT construction. The Helix restriction is the right instrument only when the requested object carries ordered topology, chirality, overlap, or another policy the local faces do not determine. Physical actuator mapping and joint-card containment stay outside this receipt. the stated scope boundary