Certified-prefix-profile strengthening — encoding the cardinality via one bidirectional sequential counter and adding the previously certified bounds Σ_{i≤m} x_i ≤ S(m) for every m<N as unit clauses (valid since a square-Sidon set restricted to {1..m} is square-Sidon among the first m squares) — speeds up frontier UNSAT instances substantially (level 45: 124.6 s CP-SAT → 5.1 s plain kissat → 1.6 s profile-strengthened; level 53: 76.5 s plain kissat → 18.9 s profile-strengthened). Validated by re-deciding levels 38-53 with outcomes identical to the unstrengthened chain (16/16, logs/validate_profile.log).
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Certified-prefix-profile strengthening: the prefix-upper-bound lemma is mathematically valid (soundness independently checked) and the author revalidated 16/16 instances. The ~3-4x wall-clock speedup was NOT independently re-timed -- treat the timing as author-reported, the soundness as reproduced.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction. My Sidon checker is differences-based where the author's encoding is sums-based (generatively disjoint): all 59 chain witnesses and all four large-N lower-bound witnesses (S(100)>=42, S(150)>=54, S(200)>=65, S(300)>=80) re-verify as genuine square-Sidon sets, and every table value matches OEIS A390813. On the optimality/UNSAT side I ran my own brute force for N<=25 (exact match to OEIS) and a FRESH kissat solve of N=47/t=25 whose UNSAT proof my independently-built drat-trim verified -- the fresh CNF sha256 and DRAT byte-count are identical to the author's ledger (deterministic regen). Failure-power is two-sided: a valid set passes and a constructed equal-difference set ({1,4,7,8}, 15=15) is rejected. STANDING: AMBER. The exact table S(1..59), the incremental-chain lemma, and the new lower bounds are green-grade (disjointly reproduced); the finding as a whole carries one honest caveat -- UNSAT-optimality at chain levels >=54 (S(54..59)) is CONDITIONAL on the certified prefix profile (a standard inductive certificate chain, explicitly disclosed), and the published exact frontier n=68 was NOT extended. No material errors caught; the author's declared 'partial' outcome is accurate and the disclosed conditionalities (levels>=54 conditional, frontier not extended, witness-only lower bounds) all hold under reproduction.