Spare cutoff decay in the high-frequency R-324 branch #
Paper Section 4.2, Step 4 only records the eighth-order central-frequency
payoff. The selected noise mode is in fact larger than the target scale by
a factor of order ε⁻¹/². Using twelfth-order Schwartz decay therefore
leaves an additional factor ε⁴.
This slack is kept explicit here. It can pay a polynomial cell-scale cost
inside a one-open-edge primitive estimate without consuming the separate
ε⁻⁸ budget attached to the four external endpoint integrations.
Twelfth-order cutoff decay yields the paper's eighth-order routed
decay together with an explicit spare factor ε⁴.
The selected cutoff symbol has an ε⁴ reserve on the genuinely large
central-frequency branch 1 ≤ ε² L.
Covariance-mode form of the same spare ε⁴ payoff, including the
fixed white-noise half-density normalization.