Corrected long-strand cross-one-off obstruction #
The corrected Corollary 4.31 count, together with the strict period
separation, rules out k-general transmission in genus at least five as soon
as the second marked strand has length at least g+1. This includes the
boundary length g+1 omitted by the earlier extended-simple-block argument.
In the long-second-strand regime, the corrected forced count is already
strictly larger than the genus for g ≥ 5.
Corrected long-strand consequence of Corollary 4.31.
For distinct cross-one-off marks, a second strand of length at least g+1
and the corrected long-first-strand range rule out k-general transmission
in every genus g ≥ 5. The threshold is sharp for this count: at g=4
and length beta = g+1, its numerical lower bound equals g.
At the first excluded genus and the boundary strand length, the corrected numerical lower bound is exactly the KGT upper bound.
Boundary-length specialization: when length beta = g+1, the exact
long-range threshold is length alpha ≥ g+2.
Strictly-long specialization: when length beta ≥ g+2, the exact
long-range threshold drops to length alpha ≥ g+1.