Closure computation (exact big-integer arithmetic over the 149 non-log-concave trees on ≤ 30 vertices from round 1, whose sequences are independently recomputed here from their parent arrays and match byte-for-byte): all 11,175 unordered pair products are unimodal, exactly 97 of them are non-log-concave (all with total order 56..60, saved with full sequences); all 10,823 one-tree extensions of those 97 pairs are unimodal, and among them every candidate whose pair sub-multisets are all non-log-concave (111 candidates) is log-concave. Therefore the hereditary risk set is empty at level 3 and the closure terminates. No non-unimodal product was found at any level — the targeted counterexample search over the only place a components-≤30 forest counterexample could live came up empty.
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Closure computation (exact big-integer arithmetic over the 149 non-log-concave trees on <=30): I re-ran Lane A closure independently -- |H2|=97, H3=empty, terminates. Hoggar 1974 applied only to the log-concave sub-product; Keilson-Gerber strong-unimodality (LC (x) unimodal = unimodal) for the glue, with the interval-support/no-internal-zeros hypothesis satisfied (independence sequences have no internal zeros, and is_log_concave enforces it). No logic gap; hereditary-minimality induction correct.
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.