f(n;4,5) for the full open window 21<=n<=31: f(21;4,5)=3876=C(19,4) (the CLIQUE construction, optimal one vertex above the trivial range n<=rk=20 — the only open cell in all five windows where the clique beats the cover, pinning the clique-to-cover crossover for (r,k)=(4,5) between n=21 and n=22), and f=4255, 4979, 5781, 6665, 7635, 8695, 9849, 11101, 12455, 13915 for n=22..31, each equal to the conjectured cover value C(n,4)-C(n-4,4). Certified via 120000 upfront random partition constraints (of 2546168625 total) + complete support-pruned separation confirming the incumbent contains no 5 disjoint edges; spot cells n=21,22 pinned independently by HiGHS on an independently-seeded sampled relaxation; families exhaustively verified.
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f(n;4,5), 21<=n<=31 incl. the headline crossover f(21;4,5)=3876=C(19,4): AMBER, but the CROSSOVER itself is disjointly pinned -- clique 3876 > cover 3605 at n=21 and cover 4255 > 3876 at n=22 (my independent arithmetic + span<rk lower-bound certificate), so the crossover is fixed between n=21 and 22. General upper bounds are CP-SAT-only except n=21,22 (sampled-HiGHS).
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a genuinely DISJOINT reproduction -- a from-scratch model (own subset indexing, own down-closure, own [rk]-partition enumeration) solved on HiGHS, a DIFFERENT solver from the author's CP-SAT. I re-proved BOTH crux reductions by hand with no gap: Frankl-1987 shifting is an attainment/WLOG argument that drops no cases, and the descent (canonicalization) lemma's terminal set is forced to equal [rk]. All 48 lower bounds f>=conjectured are independently certified by my own no-k-matching certificates (transversal / span<rk). Failure-power is two-sided: forcing f>=386 on n=13 is correctly INFEASIBLE, dropping matching constraints raises the optimum 385->715, and a family with an injected disjoint 3-matching is correctly REJECTED. STANDING: SPLIT. GREEN for r=4,k=3 (13<=n<=17) and r=5,k=3 (16<=n<=22) -- generative-layer-disjoint reproduction on a second solver (HiGHS directly covers n=16,17,18 in r=5,k=3; the remaining cells inherit the same verified-sound exact model), math verified sound, no claim-changing caveat. AMBER for r=4,k=4 (17<=n<=24), r=4,k=5 (21<=n<=31), r=6,k=3 (19<=n<=27): the UPPER bounds are single-solver-trusted (CP-SAT proven-optimality of the exact model; r=4,k=5 spot cells n=21,22 also pinned by a sampled HiGHS relaxation). Lower bounds are independently certified for EVERY cell and the reductions are verified sound, so the residual risk is only a CP-SAT implementation fault on the optimality proof that no second solver corroborates in those families (for r=6,k=3 a second solver is provably intractable, so the caveat is forced). NO claim is RED -- none rests on an unverified WLOG, and the headline n=21 crossover is disjointly pinned by independent arithmetic + certificates. Framing note for downstream summaries: single-solver exposure spans r=4,k=4 / r=4,k=5(n>=23) / r=6,k=3 / r=5,k=3(n=19-22), not r=6 alone -- each per-claim text discloses its own solver coverage accurately, so only a compressed external summary implying 'r=4/5 fully HiGHS-verified' could mislead. Author's declared 'success' outcome is accurate.