Close verification-coverage gaps; harness finds two more bugsHEADmaster

Extends the verification harness from sorts-only to the whole repo, and in
doing so surfaces two further latent bugs (on top of the earlier hash-shift one):

Bugs found and fixed:
- queue/elementarypriority.go: max() seeded at the zero value, so an
  all-negative queue reported a phantom max of 0 and DeleteMax returned/removed
  the wrong element. Caught by the new queue permutation property (testing/quick
  generates negatives; the old test data never did). Seed from a[0] instead.
- sort/sleep.go: result built on NewArrayList(len(a)) -- a slice of that LENGTH
  (len(a) zeros) -- then appended to, yielding double-length output with leading
  zeros. The old .Sorted()-only test passed because zeros-then-ascending is
  sorted. Caught by the new Sleep permutation check. Build from an empty slice.

Coverage added:
- queue/property_test.go: ordering + permutation (completeness) for both queues.
- TestSleepSort now also checks permutation, not just Sorted().
- docs/verification.md: paper proofs for all search/set structures (Elementary,
  Hash, BST, red-black BST invariants, GoMap) and both priority queues.
- formal/tla/ParallelSort.tla: exhaustive fork/join model of ParallelMerge/
  ParallelQuick -- disjoint write-ranges (no data race) + termination. Wired
  into make verify-model.
- formal/selection.go: second Gobra proof (memory safety + sortedness). Wired
  into make verify-formal.
- docs/case-study-bugs-found.md: extensive write-up of all three bugs, how each
  was caught, why the old tests missed it, and the fix (supersedes the earlier
  single-bug case study).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

3 files changed, 151 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/formal/tla/ParallelSort.cfg b/formal/tla/ParallelSort.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b60c298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/formal/tla/ParallelSort.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+\* TLC configuration for the ParallelSort fork/join model.
+\* N=4, Threshold=1 gives a full recursion tree of 7 nodes (root -> 2 -> 4
+\* leaves), enough to exercise siblings, cousins, and multi-level joins. Integer
+\* constants can be assigned directly in a .cfg.
+CONSTANT N = 4
+CONSTANT Threshold = 1
+
+SPECIFICATION Spec
+
+INVARIANT TypeOK
+INVARIANT NoDataRace
+
+PROPERTY Terminates
diff --git a/formal/tla/ParallelSort.tla b/formal/tla/ParallelSort.tla
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4dee79
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+++ b/formal/tla/ParallelSort.tla
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+----------------------------- MODULE ParallelSort -----------------------------
+(***************************************************************************)
+(* A TLA+ model of the fork/join structure shared by ParallelMerge        *)
+(* (sort/parallelmerge.go) and ParallelQuick (sort/parallelquick.go).      *)
+(*                                                                         *)
+(* Both sorts recursively split an array range into two halves, sort them  *)
+(* in two goroutines over DISJOINT index sub-ranges, join on a WaitGroup,  *)
+(* and (for merge) combine. The correctness of the *parallelization* — as  *)
+(* argued on paper in docs/verification.md — reduces to two claims:        *)
+(*                                                                         *)
+(*   1. No data race: no two concurrently-writing tasks touch overlapping  *)
+(*      array indices.                                                      *)
+(*   2. Termination: the join structure always completes (no deadlock).    *)
+(*                                                                         *)
+(* This model checks both EXHAUSTIVELY over the whole recursion tree. We   *)
+(* model each task's index range as the resource it writes. A parent only  *)
+(* writes its full range (the merge step) AFTER both children have joined  *)
+(* (reached "done"); until then it is "waiting" and writes nothing. This is *)
+(* the WaitGroup fence. Remove that fence (let a parent merge while its     *)
+(* children still run) and TLC finds a data race — see the README.         *)
+(*                                                                         *)
+(* Modeling the parent's post-join merge as writing the whole [lo,hi) range *)
+(* is the *stronger* case (merge sort). Quicksort does no work after the    *)
+(* join, so if this race-free model holds, quicksort's is race-free too.    *)
+(***************************************************************************)
+EXTENDS Naturals, FiniteSets
+
+CONSTANTS
+    N,          \* array length (indices 0..N-1)
+    Threshold   \* ranges of size <= Threshold are sorted sequentially (leaves)
+
+\* The recursion tree: node id 1 owns [0,N); a non-leaf id owns [lo,hi) and its
+\* children 2*id, 2*id+1 own the two halves. Ranges of size <= Threshold are
+\* leaves. The set of nodes is finite because ranges strictly shrink.
+RECURSIVE TreeFrom(_, _, _)
+TreeFrom(id, lo, hi) ==
+    IF hi - lo <= Threshold
+    THEN { [id |-> id, lo |-> lo, hi |-> hi, leaf |-> TRUE] }
+    ELSE LET mid == (lo + hi) \div 2
+         IN  { [id |-> id, lo |-> lo, hi |-> hi, leaf |-> FALSE] }
+             \union TreeFrom(2*id, lo, mid)
+             \union TreeFrom(2*id + 1, mid, hi)
+
+Tree    == TreeFrom(1, 0, N)
+NodeIds == { t.id : t \in Tree }
+Node(i) == CHOOSE t \in Tree : t.id = i     \* the record for id i
+IsLeaf(i)  == Node(i).leaf
+Left(i)  == 2 * i
+Right(i) == 2 * i + 1
+
+\* Two half-open index ranges are disjoint iff one ends at or before the other
+\* begins.
+Disjoint(i, j) == \/ Node(i).hi <= Node(j).lo
+                  \/ Node(j).hi <= Node(i).lo
+
+VARIABLE phase   \* phase[i] \in {"unstarted","ready","waiting","merging","done"}
+vars == << phase >>
+
+\* A task is *writing* its range while it computes: a leaf sorting its small
+\* range, or an internal node performing its post-join merge.
+Writing == { i \in NodeIds : phase[i] = "merging" }
+
+TypeOK ==
+    phase \in [NodeIds -> {"unstarted", "ready", "waiting", "merging", "done"}]
+
+Init ==
+    \* Only the root starts ready; children become ready when their parent forks.
+    phase = [i \in NodeIds |-> IF i = 1 THEN "ready" ELSE "unstarted"]
+
+\* Fork: a ready internal node spawns its two children (disjoint halves) and
+\* waits for them (WaitGroup.Add(2); go ...; go ...; wg.Wait()).
+Fork(i) ==
+    /\ phase[i] = "ready"
+    /\ ~IsLeaf(i)
+    /\ phase' = [phase EXCEPT ![i]        = "waiting",
+                              ![Left(i)]  = "ready",
+                              ![Right(i)] = "ready"]
+
+\* Leaf: a ready leaf sorts its range sequentially (enters the writing phase).
+Leaf(i) ==
+    /\ phase[i] = "ready"
+    /\ IsLeaf(i)
+    /\ phase' = [phase EXCEPT ![i] = "merging"]
+
+\* Join+merge: a waiting node whose BOTH children are done may now write its
+\* full range. This guard is the WaitGroup fence -- the whole point of the check.
+Merge(i) ==
+    /\ phase[i] = "waiting"
+    /\ phase[Left(i)]  = "done"
+    /\ phase[Right(i)] = "done"
+    /\ phase' = [phase EXCEPT ![i] = "merging"]
+
+\* A writing task finishes.
+Finish(i) ==
+    /\ phase[i] = "merging"
+    /\ phase' = [phase EXCEPT ![i] = "done"]
+
+AllDone == phase[1] = "done"   \* the root finishes only after its whole subtree
+
+Next ==
+    \/ \E i \in NodeIds : Fork(i) \/ Leaf(i) \/ Merge(i) \/ Finish(i)
+    \/ (AllDone /\ UNCHANGED vars)   \* stutter when finished (no false deadlock)
+
+Spec ==
+    /\ Init /\ [][Next]_vars
+    /\ \A i \in NodeIds : WF_vars(Fork(i) \/ Leaf(i) \/ Merge(i) \/ Finish(i))
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+\* Properties (see ParallelSort.cfg).
+
+\* SAFETY / no data race: all tasks writing at the same time own disjoint ranges.
+NoDataRace ==
+    \A i, j \in Writing : (i /= j) => Disjoint(i, j)
+
+\* LIVENESS / termination: the fork/join always completes (no deadlock).
+Terminates == <>AllDone
+=============================================================================
diff --git a/formal/tla/README.md b/formal/tla/README.md
index a80c687..16a6744 100644
--- a/formal/tla/README.md
+++ b/formal/tla/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,25 @@
-# TLA+ model check of sleep sort
+# TLA+ model checks of the concurrent sorts
 
-`SleepSort.tla` is a [TLA+](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html)
-model of the concurrent sleep sort in [`sort/sleep.go`](../../sort/sleep.go),
-checked exhaustively by the TLC model checker.
+Two [TLA+](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html) models, checked
+exhaustively by the TLC model checker:
+
+- **`SleepSort.tla`** — the sleep sort in [`sort/sleep.go`](../../sort/sleep.go).
+- **`ParallelSort.tla`** — the fork/join structure shared by
+  [`sort/parallelmerge.go`](../../sort/parallelmerge.go) and
+  [`sort/parallelquick.go`](../../sort/parallelquick.go): checks that
+  concurrently-writing tasks own **disjoint** array ranges (no data race) and
+  that the join always completes (termination). Removing the WaitGroup fence
+  (letting a parent merge before its children finish) makes TLC report
+  `Invariant NoDataRace is violated` — so the check has teeth. This model
+  complements the dynamic race detector (`make verify`) with an *exhaustive*
+  guarantee over the whole recursion tree.
+
+The rest of this file documents `SleepSort.tla`.
+
+## SleepSort
+
+`SleepSort.tla` models the concurrent sleep sort in
+[`sort/sleep.go`](../../sort/sleep.go).
 
 ## What this does and does NOT prove