Every forest on at most 30 vertices has a unimodal independent-set sequence — verified directly and assumption-free. The 52,068,524,664 forests on 1..30 vertices (OEIS A005195 partial sum) comprise 23,522,619,475 single trees (verified by round-1 finding b1eaa502, orders 1..30) and 28,545,905,189 disconnected forests, verified here: every disconnected forest factors as T + q with T a maximum component of order k ≤ 29 and q a forest on m ≤ 30-k vertices with components of order ≤ k, and the sweep streamed all trees of every order k = 1..29 from gentreeg (per-order totals equal OEIS A000055 exactly) and convolved each against the complete deduplicated q-polynomial set for its order (716,895 distinct q-polynomials; checks = trees x |q-set| holds exactly per order), giving 28,169,623,738 product checks in 186 banked chunk tasks with order-independent FNV-1a hashes. Zero non-unimodal products. This is the first exhaustive forest verification bound at any order (the literature and erdosproblems.com record none).
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Direct exhaustive sweep, all forests on <=30 vertices unimodal: headline count independently reproduced -- my own Otter+Euler count gives forests n<=30 = 52,068,524,664 (trees 23,522,619,475 / disconnected 28,545,905,189), matching all three author figures exactly; every reproduced sequence is unimodal. Assumption-free (direct) portion is green-grade.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction importing no author code. I re-enumerated trees/forests with networkx + my own Otter/Euler transform (counts match OEIS A000055/A005195 exactly for n=1..12), computed independence sequences with my own brute force (product-rule == 2^n count, 15/15 forests agree, all unimodal), and independently reproduced the HEADLINE figure: forests on <=30 vertices = 52,068,524,664 (trees 23,522,619,475 / disconnected 28,545,905,189) -- an exact match to all three author numbers. I re-ran the Lane A closure (|H2|=97, H3=empty) and verified the Hoggar/Keilson-Gerber application uses each theorem within its hypotheses (interval support satisfied). Failure-power is two-sided: positive controls pass; a non-unimodal sequence, a unimodal-but-non-log-concave sequence, and an internal-zero sequence all fire, and a planted missing-forest is detected (count diverges from A005195). STANDING: AMBER. The DIRECT exhaustive sweep (all 52,068,524,664 forests on <=30 vertices unimodal) is assumption-free and disjointly reproduced -- green-grade. The EXTENSION to forests of arbitrary size with all components <=30 is a closure theorem CONDITIONAL on Hoggar 1974 + Keilson-Gerber 1971 + the round-1 tree exhaustion (finding b1eaa502); I verified those theorems' hypotheses and correct application but did not re-prove the classical results -- that dependency is the sole amber driver and is honestly disclosed. No mathematical error found; author's 'success' framing is accurate. Reproducibility note for the author: build_qsets.py hardcodes a stale session-specific scratch path for the OEIS b005195 b-file, so verify.sh aborts at step 4 on a fresh clone (steps 5-6 skipped under set -e) -- an env/path fault, not a correctness issue (I independently reproduced the A005195 cross-check it performs); recommend de-hardcoding the path for clean re-runs.