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Electron g-2 QED coefficients, in your browser

This computes the perturbative QED coefficients of the electron anomalous magnetic moment (g-2), order by order, directly in your browser. A researcher wanting to check these coefficients can run the calculation with no install and a deterministic result, as a fast bridge step before committing HPC time.

Orders 1-3: exact closed forms reproduced to floating point   Verified

c4 = -1.912980000003 (residual 3.497e-12)
c5 = +7.795000000002 (residual 1.824e-12)

Orders 4 and 5 are reproduced by a substrate cascade closure whose closed form was found by a search targeting those same published values, so the agreement is reproduction and not an independent check.

Method

The first three coefficients reproduce the exact closed forms to floating point (the Schwinger 1/2 term and the order-2 and order-3 closed forms). Orders 4 and 5 are reproduced by a substrate cascade closure: the closure selects a multiple zeta value (MZV) basis, and the resulting coefficients are c4 = -1.912980000003 (residual 3.497e-12) and c5 = +7.795000000002 (residual 1.824e-12), both landing at the published values to the f64 floor. That closure is not independent of the values it lands on, because the candidate form was accepted by a discovery search on the criterion of matching them.

Honest scope

Orders 1-3 are verified exact-form reproductions, and they are the rows that carry a genuine pass: their closed forms were published before this work and were not fitted to anything.

Orders 4-5 land at the published values to the f64 floor, but they cannot pass, and that is the correct outcome rather than a solver fault. Their closed forms were selected by a search over a substrate-constrained ansatz space whose acceptance criterion was landing inside the published error bar, so the later comparison against that same bar is guaranteed by construction and carries no discriminating power. A residual, however small, cannot validate a form that was fitted to the value it is checked against. The shipped validator reports these two rows as not passing for this reason.

None of the five orders is a first-principles independent prediction of the experiment.

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