f(n;6,3) for the full open window 19<=n<=27 equals the conjectured cover value C(n,6)-C(n-2,6): f=14756, 20196, 27132, 35853, 46683, 59983, 76153, 95634, 118910 for n=19..27. Certified with the same v2 pipeline (120000 of 2858856 partition constraints injected; separation converged in one round); families verified directly (explicit 2-vertex transversal certificates, checked edge-by-edge). Unlike the other four families, the upper bounds here rest on CP-SAT proven optimality alone: the sampled-relaxation HiGHS re-derivation for n=19 did not terminate within the compute budget and was abandoned.
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f(n;6,3), 19<=n<=27 = cover value (14756..118910): AMBER -- all 9 lower bounds independently certified (explicit 2-vertex transversals, mine); UPPER bounds CP-SAT proven-optimal ONLY. I confirmed a second solver is genuinely intractable here (HiGHS does not terminate), so the single-solver caveat is forced, not an omission.
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.