\Lambda(5,3) >= 10,000,001, doubling the round-1 lower bound of 5,000,001 (finding f388c2e6), which was itself the first nontrivial lower bound for any \Lambda(k,3) with odd k >= 5: the round-1 encoding at k=5, m=3, B=10^7 is SAT (kissat --sat --time=2400: 232 s; round 1's default invocation had gone UNKNOWN in 15 min on this same instance). The decoded assignment (all 664,579 primes <= 10,000,002) was re-verified from scratch by BOTH the round-2 verifier and round 1's verifier (shared no code with the search).
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Lambda(5,3) >= 10,000,001 (headline): SAT witness re-verified by my own disjoint checker (longest completely-multiplicative zero-run = 2 < 3 up to 10,000,002). Unconditional as a combinatorial witness; Mills-conditional as a Lambda bound.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction. My witness checker shares no code with the author's encoder/solver: it rebuilds f completely-multiplicatively from prime values and re-verifies all 7 certificates, including the headline Lambda(5,3) >= 10,000,001 and every k=8 witness; SAT/UNSAT boundaries were cross-checked with cadical (independent of the author's kissat), reproducing Lambda(2,2)=9 and Lambda(4,2)=1224 exactly. Failure-power is two-sided: positive controls pass and four independent negative controls (admissibility flip, all-zero, missing-prime line, single-value tamper) all fire, so the checker can genuinely reject. STANDING: AMBER. Every Lambda LOWER bound (incl. Lambda(5,3) >= 10,000,001 and Lambda(8,2) >= 1,501,284) is conditional on Mills' 1963 preassigned-character theorem -- the same step as all 1962-64 published values; the machine-checked SAT certificates themselves are unconditional and were disjointly reproduced. The Lambda(8,2) <= 1,508,324 UPPER bound is a single kissat UNSAT with no DRAT proof and no stored second-solver cross-check for the decisive instance -- it reconfirms, does not extend, Reble's 2019 bound. Corrections for the author: (1) the README's 'decisive UNSAT cross-checked with cadical' line reads as if the k8 upper-bound UNSAT was cadical-checked, but only the k6 cross-check is stored (the finding's own next_directions correctly flags this as pending); (2) Lambda(8,2) is an OPEN interval [>= 1,501,284 (local certs support the stronger >= 1,504,413), <= 1,508,324], not a point value; (3) add the Bierstedt-Mills 1963 attribution for Lambda(4,2)=1224 to external_refs. The author's declared 'partial' outcome is honest and accurate.