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Sungkawichai and Trakulthongchai (S–T, arXiv:2604.23906 v2) reduce the lonely runner conjecture for 11 runners (k = 10 moving speeds plus the stationary runner) to a finite computation: a set J(10,p) must be empty for each of 61 primes p in P10 = {127, …, 467}. We re-ran that computation with independently written code. We find J(10,p) = ∅ for all 61 primes (exact integer arithmetic, Tier C). This is a replication, not a new theorem: together with literature premises it recomputes S–T's Theorem 1.3 for k = 10, and the lonely runner conjecture in general is open. To our knowledge it is the first reimplementation of the k = 10 computation not derived from the S–T code (a one-day web and alphaXiv search, not a priority claim). What was done. The implementer did not read the S–T repository (the producer's attestation; the independent auditor opened their logs only after its own counts at p = 127 and 137 were complete). S–T's size of the level-1 set equals ours at all 61 primes, with no disagreement. The step that S–T discharge with their Proposition 1.4 is replaced by a direct computation: for every p, all 2,593,742,461 level-11 vectors (up to scaling) over the class of (1, …, 10) are (10, p, 11)-proper, 0 improper (158,218,290,121 vectors in all); the audit reproduced this with its own program at p = 127, 137, 263, 467, checked S–T's Proposition 4.1 exhaustively (15,937,424,600 vectors, 0 failures) and the Lemma 4.3 inclusion at all 61 primes. Tier split. Tier A (Lean 4.34.1, Mathlib, pinned toolchain; axioms within propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound): scalar inputs only — P10 is 61 distinct primes, all > 110, equal to row k = 10 of S–T's Table 1, and 5590 ≤ 1010∏P10 (margin 5.08 nats; the bound fails without 467), with kernel-rejected and sorry-caught controls. Tier L: the chain LRC(9) (Trakulthongchai) + the Malikiosis–Santos–Schymura/Rosenfeld bound Bk (division by k) + S–T Corollary 2.5 / Proposition 2.7 + J(10,p) = ∅ + ∏P10 ≥ B10 gives LRC(10), the conjecture for 11 runners; taken as stated. Tier C: the per-prime emptiness (exhaustive enumeration, exact integers; not kernel-checked). Controls. Positive: per-prime verdict patterns for k = 3..8 match the printed ones in Rosenfeld and Trakulthongchai at the tested level (the k = 4, p = 13 flag raised by the producer is withdrawn: Rosenfeld's section 7 is hedged, and a brute force of 12,960,000 ordered tuples gives I(4,13,5) empty). Negative: planted wrong witness rules change the counts at k = 7, 8 and one removes the identity class at k = 10; both are inert at the level-11 step, where instead a strict-inequality control flags exactly the identity orbit, and the nonzero counts of two independent fibre programs agree (p = 13: 54,976; p = 23: 7,210). An observation on exposition, recorded neutrally. A displayed identity in the soundness argument for lifting (also in the proof of S–T's Proposition 3.1) is false for a general set S (auditor's counterexample at k = 10, p = 127); this affects neither their theorem nor the computation, which chains full fibres. It has not been raised with the authors; if anyone raises it, it should go to them first, after a second check. What this is NOT. Not a proof of anything new, not a proof of the lonely runner conjecture, not a formalisation of the computation (only scalar inputs are in Lean). Limitations. Independently audited by a different AI agent instance (AUDIT.md, ACCEPT_WITH_CORRECTIONS, six corrections applied); no human audit and no statement lock (owed). Unverified: the literature premises (LRC(9), the MSS bound, S–T's lemmas as stated); phase 1 and lifts with the auditor's own algorithm at only 3 of 61 primes (127, 137, 263), the other 58 including 467 resting on the producer's code (rebuilt bit-identically) and on exact agreement with the S–T logs; the unpruned second pass at 33 of 61 primes; nothing formalised beyond the scalar inputs. The Elenchus ledger gate exits with code 1 (0 blocking findings, 2 flags LEDGER_UNAUDITED_TIER_A, one per Tier A row).
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